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Before Snoop Dogg, there was Fargo's Mrs. B.C. Corbus

Roanne Corbus covered the 1960 Winter Olympics with human-interest stories highlighting athletes, pageantry, and local Fargo connections for The Forum newspaper.

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When you think of commentators at the Winter Olympics, names like Mike Tirico, Tara Lipinski — and even Snoop Dogg — come to mind. They're often professional broadcasters, former athletes or in Snoop’s case, a rap icon. They're not normally a middle-aged Camp Fire Girl leader from Fargo, North Dakota. But in 1960, The Forum had an Olympics correspondent who was just that — and she was terrific. Roanne Corbus, a Carleton College graduate and Farg…

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Inforum broke the news in Fargo, United States on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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