Andy Glantzman worked at Oakland University in the 1980s and 1990s. He died Wednesday, a day after celebrating his 31st wedding anniversary.
Before the internet and long before social media, Andy Glantzman proved to be a pretty good search engine, especially when it came to sports, and particularly when it came to Oakland University. « He knew everything, » said Oakland men’s basketball coach Greg Kampe, « about every sport. » Glantzman, Oakland University’s sports information director from 1985 until 1997, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 62, and lived in Comstock Park, near Grand Rapids. Glantzman’s tenure at Oakland coincided with the beginning of Kampe’s. The school was Division II at the time, and it was a close-knit athletics department. The men’s and women’s basketball teams traveled all over the Midwest, together, by bus, and Glantzman would call both of the games. On the road, Glantzman often would room with retired Oakland trainer Tom Ford. Much of the staffs became close friends, Kampe and Glantzman included. Away from work, Kampe and Glantzman would play softball together.
