Hokie ClubThe Milwaukee Brewers announced that long-time Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Uecker will undergo heart surgery on Friday and is expected to miss the next 10-12 weeks of the baseball season. Uecker, 75 and in his 40th season in the Brewer's radio booth, will have his aortic valve and a portion of the aortic roof replaced. After the procedure, Dr. Jim Klezka will determine whether additional bypass surgery is necessary.
The Brewers will begin their first road trip without Uecker in 19 years with former Virginia Tech women's basketball announcer Cory Provus handling the play-by-play duties on Milwaukee's 11-day, 10-game road trip to San Diego, Los Angeles and Arizona. Provus was the voice of Tech women's basketball from 2000-2003 after graduating from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Following his time in Blacksburg, Provus worked for ISP in Winston-Salem, N.C., before moving on to Alabama-Birmingham where he handled play-by-play for UAB football, men's basketball and baseball. In 2006, Provus was named the Radio Sportscaster of the Year by the Alabama Broadcasters Association.
Provus began his Major League Baseball career in March of 2007 as the Chicago Cubs Pre and Post Game Show host. He also handled play-by-play duties, backing up Pat Hughes during games, and anchored the morning and afternoon drive sportscasts as a reporter for WGN-AM in Chicago. Provus joined the Brewers broadcast team prior to the 2009 season.