The voice of black college sports

Cueing a voice-over introduction, Donal Ware bobs his head while punching computer keys and adjusting a microphone. It takes only a second for him to slip into a high-pitched, rapid-fire radio voice where sentences pour from his mouth. "Two more weeks before the start of the college football season," he says. "Thanks for joining me on another edition of 'From the Press Box to Press Row.'"

Ware, 35, sits in a high-back chair in a studio office in his Fuquay-Varina home. His equipment rests on a custom-made wooden bar top, a fitting place for someone whose preoccupation is talking about sports. In Ware's case, it's black college sports. His radio program celebrates its fifth anniversary this week, a major milestone for a niche show that focuses mostly on sports news involving historically black colleges and universities.

The one-hour show airs in Raleigh every Saturday on St. Augustine's College's WAUG station and is syndicated nationally on 30 stations, airing in such major markets as Washington and San Francisco. "I'm not saying that we've made it," Ware says, "but we've come a long way."



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