• At the NCAA Men’s Final Four game this spring, Mr. LaLonde, second from left, was honored by his colleagues, from left: Bill Rafferty, CBS Sports color analyst; Jim Nance, play-by-play analyst; and Grant Hill, former NBA player and CBS analyst.
    At the NCAA Men’s Final Four game this spring, Mr. LaLonde, second from left, was honored by his colleagues, from left: Bill Rafferty, CBS Sports color analyst; Jim Nance, play-by-play analyst; and Grant Hill, former NBA player and CBS analyst.
    After 39 years of working on the sidelines of some of the most exciting games in collegiate and professional arenas, Rossford native Rick LaLonde is retiring. The 1973 Rossford High School graduate has been a CBS Sports broadcast statistician/researcher for 39 years, working at NFL games and then college football and basketball games. Mr. LaLonde’s last “day at the offic...

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