Jim Nantz
American sports broadcaster
James William Nantz, III (born May 17, 1959) is a personality with CBS Sports. He currently partners with Clark Kellogg and Steve Kerr for college basketball games, Nick Faldo for golf tournaments, and Phil Simms for NFL games.
 Jim Nantz by set of The NFL Today, 2001. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | James William Nantz, III |
| Born | May 17, 1959 Charlotte, North Carolina[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Lead Play-by-Play Announcer, NFL on CBS Play-By-Play Broadcaster, College Basketball; Golf |
His jobs include these:
- NFL on CBS play-by-play/studio host
- PGA Tour on CBS play-by-play
- Olympics on CBS anchor
- NBA on CBS play-by-play
- NFL on CBS Radio play-by-play
- College Basketball on CBS lead play-by-play/studio host
- College football on CBS lead play-by-play
- Tennis on CBS play-by-play
- PGA Tour on BBC Open Championship play-by-play
- BYU Cougars football play-by-play
- Utah Jazz play-by-play
- KSL-TV sports anchor in Salt Lake City Utah[2]
Nantz has been honored with the NSSA’s National Sportscaster of the Year award five times (1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009).[3] In 2011, Nantz was named as a recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[4]
References change
- ↑ CBS Sports Team: Jim Nantz Archived 2008-03-27 at the Wayback Machine, CBS Sports. Accessed April 4, 2008.
- ↑ "CBS Sports TV Team". CBS Sports. Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ↑ "National Winners - NSSA Hall of Fame General". Archived from the original on 2010-04-26. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
- ↑ "Jim Nantz named Rozelle Award winner". 2011-07-06.
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