2/19/2022- 2:26 p.m.
The 49-year-old “Voice of the Saints” is dead, in yet another death that is only possible in these surreal times known as “The Great Reset” and “New World Order.”
Our Lady of the Lake University (“OLLU”) is a small Catholic school located in San Antonio, Texas.
It has about 3,200 total students, with half of them being in graduate programs. The university’s athletic teams compete in the Red River Athletic Conference, in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The NAIA combined its two basketball divisions into one in 2020.
Mr. Thompson joined the military after high school, but continued pursuing his dreams of sports broadcasting thereafter. Mr. Thompson did play-by-play announcing and other radio gigs starting in 2004. The OLLU Saints joined the Red River Conference in 2008.
The following year, Mr. Michael Thompson became a one-man broadcasting machine for the university.
He immediately revolutionized the small athletic department by introducing live-streaming for basketball games.
Mr. Thompson earned his bachelor’s degree in history from OLLU in 2011 at age 39. He left OLLU for a job at the University of St. Mary in Kansas after graduating, according to the OLLU athletics website.
But Mr. Thompson returned to OLLU a year later and resumed that he started. He started live-streaming all other sporta on campus, including basketball, from that point forward.
One of his signature moments at the school was his play-by-play call on January 22, 2011. OLLU defeated #1 LSU-Shreveport that day.
Tragic death
Mr. Thompson was calling the OLLU women’s basketball game against LSU-Alexandria this past Saturday afternoon. But at halftime, the OLLU Athletics Twitter account tweeted that the game had been suspended due to “an accident on campus.” The tweet also announced that the men’s game later that day was cancelled.
We contacted an OLLU student who asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the subject. They said a “very loud thud” in the bleachers silenced Mabee Gymnasium at halftime. Mr. Thompson fell from his familiar broadcasting perch near the top of the bleachers, and tumbled all the way down until he hit the floor.
“He was just laying there, not moving at all,” they told reporters . KSAT 12 in San Antonio told a similar, but less detailed account of the events. He passed away a short time later. MySanAntonio.com and the aforementioned KSAT reported that Mr. Thompson died of a “cardiac event.”
