10-23-13
Bill Mazer, who was a voice and face of sports coverage in New York for decades, pioneering sports-talk radio and becoming a television fixture while earning the nickname the Amazin? for his encyclopedic recall of sports facts and figures, died on Wednesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 92.
When Mr. Mazer retired in 2009, he had spent more than 60 years in broadcasting ? 20 of them as a nightly sports anchor and the host of the weekend roundup ?Sports Extra? on WNEW-TV, Channel 5. Before then he had been a host of sports-talk radio when the very idea of the format was new.
