Jones Angell grew up listening to Woody Durham and Mick Mixon calling Tar Heel football and basketball games on the radio with his family.
11 Facts About Jones Angell
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Jones Angell started out his career calling high school football and baseball games in Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1999.
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Jones Angell continued to call high school football games while still an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Jones Angell started doing color commentary for North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer and women's basketball.
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Jones Angell beat out several other candidates to become the new voice of the Tar Heels.
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Jones Angell feels this call sparked his relationship with the Tar Heel fanbase and says people still talk to him about this particular call.
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Jones Angell even parodied this call for a video for The Daily Tar Heel's sports department.
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Jones Angell's use of "dadgum" was a nod to basketball coach Roy Williams' frequent use of the word.
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Jones Angell called part of the 2014 Tar Heel baseball season for ESPN3 and WatchESPN.
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Jones Angell wrote articles for the now-defunct magazines Tar Heel Monthly and CAROLINA: the Magazine, as well as for GoHeels.
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Jones Angell worked with Lucas, who provided color commentary, on Tar Heel Sports Network coverage of Tar Heel baseball as early as 2004.