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Former KHOU 11 and KTRK abc13 sports director Bob Allen loses cancer battle, passes away at age 70


Bob Allen, 70, lost his battle to cancer after looking like he beat it earlier this year.

Allen will be remembered as one of the greatest sports broadcasters in Houston, if not the United States.

He certainly put in his 10,000 hours to earn that recognition. In fact Allen's old KTRK bio said he had the longest tenure of any major market sports anchor in the country.

Native Houstonian Robert Alan Egalnick, a young future Bob Allen, would bike from his West U home and sneak into KTRK channel 13 just to watch the nascent television magic.

His family later moved to the new suburbia in southwest Houston where he graduated from Westbury High School.

A 1986 Baytown Sun article talks about how Allen's father, Lee Egalnick, founded the Karl Young Baseball League.

"The only things that held me back [from playing sports] were size talent and speed," joked Allen in an SFA-TV interview em