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Sports Final: Bob Lobel explains the origins of the "Panic Button" and "Why can't we get players like that?"
BOSTON -- Bob Lobel was an icon on WBZ-TV for nearly 30 years, bringing a unique -- and hilarious -- approach to the world of sports. It's impossible to compile a list of Lobel's greatest hits ...
OBF: And the 2025 winner of the Lobel Prize is
Brad Marchand begins his chase for another Stanley Cup tonight — with the Florida Panthers. Thanks to his late-season surge ...
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Sports Final: Bob Lobel explains why he's never watched his famous Williams, Bird, and Orr interview
BOSTON -- Bob Lobel is responsible for putting together one of the greatest sports interviews ever, welcoming Boston sports legends Ted Williams, Larry Bird, and Bobby Orr to the WBZ-TV's studio ...
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‘Why can’t we get players like that?’ Bob Lobel explained the origin of his famous question
the Patriots will be at home to play the Dolphins in a critical matchup at 1 p.m. Bob Lobel explained the origin of a famous question: In his nearly 30 years working for WBZ-TV sports, Bob Lobel ...
The Boston Globe4y
Bob Lobel’s 'Why can’t we get players like that’ being used a lot lately
Oh, yes, Bob Lobel knows what you’ve been saying, watching Mookie Betts spark the Dodgers to a World Series championship, watching Tom Brady lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to rare relevance ...
Boston.com5y
Channel 4 icon Bob Lobel paralyzed from waist down by neurological disorder
Legendary Boston sportscaster Bob Lobel is facing another struggle with his health. Lobel, a popular figure at Channel 4 during Boston’s local news heyday in the 1980s, has been diagnosed with ...
Boston Herald15y
Laid-up Bob Lobel aims to be on mend in 2010
For local TV sports legend Bob Lobel, 2010 hasn’t exactly gotten off on the right foot. The longtime Boston jock-talker, who has been on crutches for a year and a half after back surgery ...
The New York Times1y
Patriots’ loss left Boston fans asking in unison, ‘Why can’t we get players like that?’
It happens every time. A former Boston sports star will do something big somewhere else, and that’s when Bob Lobel’s phone starts to shake, rattle and roll. Lobel, 79, is the retired sports ...
The Lowell Sun1y
Former sportscaster Bob Lobel paragolfs for a cause
TYNGSBORO — In a full field of 128 golfers at Vesper Country Club, only former WBZ sportscaster Bob Lobel played his round from the perch of an all-terrain mobility vehicle. Also known as a ...
The New York Times5y
Longtime Boston TV personality Bob Lobel facing yet another health fight
It wasn’t the signal that was fading in and out as Bob Lobel and I were talking on the phone early Sunday night. It was Bob who was fading in and out. Confined to a bed at Beth Israel Deaconess ...
The Boston Globe8y
Bob Lobel: ‘I’m not the pied piper of pot’ but is in favor of recreational marijuana
Bob Lobel knows where he stands on Question 4. “I’m going to vote yes,” he says. The beloved former sportscaster called us to say he supports the legalization of recreational marijuana ...