BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — This Saturday’s LSU-Troy football game will mark a first in major college football when the game is broadcast in the native language of the Navajo Indian tribe.
Cuyler Frank and Leandro Jodie, members of the Navajo tribe, will broadcast the game on New Mexico radio stations KGAK and KNDN. The broadcast also will be streamed live on www.lsusports.net.
Frank broadcasts New Mexico State University football and basketball games in Navajo to the state’s more than 300,000 members of the Indian tribe.
LSU Chancellor Michael Martin, who was formerly president of New Mexico State, invited Frank and Jodie to broadcast the game, according to the university.
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LSU-Troy game to be broadcast in Navajo – 1:05 p.m.
November 14, 2008