Remembering the late Jim Healy, KMPC’s hilarious sports radio host

It’s hard to believe that sports reporter Jim Healy passed away more than three decades ago.

It seems like it was just yesterday that I was in the back seat of my father’s car listening to his commentary on the original KMPC (now KSPN, 710 AM). Healy passed away on July 22, 1994, at the age of 70 from complications of liver cancer, less than three months after his last show.

To the uninitiated, it is extremely difficult to describe his program. Thirty minutes long, it featured reporting...