Cawood Ledford

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Cawood Ledford (April 24, 1926 – September 5, 2001) was the longtime play-by-play announcer for the University of Kentucky basketball and football teams, primarily on radio but sometimes on television as well.

A native of Harlan, Kentucky, Ledford was educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He began broadcasting Kentucky Wildcats games in 1953.

He also worked as the play-by-play announcer for national radio broadcasts of the NCAA Men's Final Four on the CBS Radio Network, and called many runnings of the Kentucky Derby for CBS Radio. Ledford also did radio broadcasts for Kentucky Colonels games in the American Basketball Association, along with Van Vance. On a side of Rupp Arena the words "Cawood's Court" were dedicated to him in the early 2000s.

He was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987. Ledford won three Eclipse Awards for outstanding coverage of thoroughbred racing. He was also named Kentucky's Sportscaster of the Year eighteen different times.