Hall of Fame
One of the longest tenured broadcasters in the history of college sports, Spiro called the play-by-play action for Tiger football, men’s basketball and men’s lacrosse for a span of four decades, giving him a uniqueness among those in his profession.
Coming out of Dulaney High School where, as sports editor of its newspaper, he was honored as the journalist of the year, Morekas intended to continue his budding journalism career in the print media by joining Towson’s Towerlight staff. “As part of the freshman orientation program they took us to the radio station,” he recalls, “where a distant cousin of mine was working. He said the station was in real need for students in the sports department. So instead of the student newspaper I joined the radio staff. As time went on, to be honest I spent more time there than I did in class.”
On September 22, 1979 Morekas sat behind the mike for the first time, calling a 16-0 Tigers’ football victory over host Randolph-Macon in a torrential rain. He ultimately became the station’s sports director. In his senior year, when WCVT was under student management, he was named its general manager.
Morekas’ other affiliations with Towson include two seasons on the Tigers’ golf team. Later he found himself directing the golf program as its head coach from 1989-94 while Towson was competing in the now defunct East Coast Conference and the Big South. In 1996 the Mass Communications Department added him as an adjunct faculty member. He taught sports broadcasting for two years.
In 1985 Morekas launched his professional broadcasting career as sports director of WSBY radio in Salisbury, calling football and basketball games at Salisbury State. In 1988 he came back to Baltimore as sports director at WGRX radio followed by stints in sports talk radio hosting shows on WCBM, WITH, WWLG and WNST. After two years as the play-by-play announcer for Loyola College he returned to his alma mater where he averaged 55 broadcasts per year.
At the time of his induction, and since settling in as Towson’s “Voice of the Tigers” Spiro had traveled 488,790 miles through 41 states, Canada and Northern Ireland, to call over 1,700 games. He worked events for the Tigers at 150 different schools. One of only two broadcasters in the nation to call play-by-play for Division I football, basketball and lacrosse at the same school, Spiro also hosted weekly coaches shows on the Towson Sports Network (TSN).
In addition to his Hall of Fame induction Spiro was honored by the Tigers back in 2005 when he was named a Doc Minnegan Award recipient recognizing him for his contributions to TU athletics.
