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Tom MeesTV broadcasts of WVU football games in the mid 1980's. Who was he? 
The late Tom Mees was an original anchorman on ESPN's Sportscenter when the network first aired in 1979. By the mid 1980's, Mees, through a working relationship with MSN's Mike Parsons, moonlighted by doing play-by-play and color commentary on Mountaineer Sports Network football broadcasts. But the workload on Mees became too great when ESPN was in the midst of its big expansion in the late 1980s, and he left the MSN broadcasts after the 1987 season. Mees tragically died in the summer of 1996 in a swimming pool accident at his home in Southington, Conn. Tony Caridi, now MSN’s radio play by play man, got his start in the business working in the broadcast booth with Mees.
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