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By Matthew Odam
| Friday, December 10, 2010, 03:20 PM
A couple of years ago, one of the Internet’s most notorious and beloved men landed a gig in Central Texas.
Brian Collins, whose “Boom goes the dynamite” was the cherry on top of one of the most agonizing sports highlights packages in televised history, took a job at KXXV in Waco in 2008. But that job was short lived for Collins, who left the following year.
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