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Broadcaster Jarrin in Intensive Care

By BILL PLASCHKE
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VERO BEACH, Fla. — 

Dodger broadcaster Jaime Jarrin was hospitalized in intensive care at Indian River Memorial Hospital Monday night after an automobile accident in which the car he was driving collided head-on with another vehicle.

Jarrin, who was listed in fair condition late Tuesday, suffered several internal injuries, including a laceration of his liver, a ruptured spleen and broken ribs. Jarrin underwent surgery early Tuesday to remove the spleen and repair the liver.

Jarrin, 56, is the play-by-play announcer on KWKW in Los Angeles, flagship station of the Dodgers’ Spanish radio network. In Jarrin’s place Tuesday, sportswriter Terry Johnson of the South Bay Daily Breeze provided color for four innings in Spanish.

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Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.

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