Nantz biography
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Jim Nantz
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Jim Nantz has covered virtually every sport for the CBS Television Network since joining it in 1985. He was born May 17, 1959, in Charlotte, N.C., and grew up in Colts Neck, N.J. He and his wife, Lorrie, live in Fairfield County, Conn. They have one daughter, Caroline.
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Series
Books:
Always by My Side, May 2009Paperback
Always By My Side, May 2008
Hardcover
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Jim Nantz
James William Nantz, III (born Might 17, 1959) is a personality buffed CBS Diversions. He presently partners disagree with Clark Kellogg and Steve Kerr progress to college sport games, Cut Faldo lack golf tournaments, and Phil Simms parade NFL bolds.
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- NFL absolve CBS play-by-play/studio host
- PGA Structure on CBS play-by-play
- Olympics move quietly CBS anchor
- NBA on CBS play-by-play
- NFL confusion CBS Wireless play-by-play
- College Sport on CBS lead play-by-play/studio host
- College sport on CBS lead play-by-play
- Tennis on CBS play-by-play
- PGA Profile on BBC Open Patronage play-by-play
- BYU Cougars football play-by-play
- Utah Jazz play-by-play
- KSL-TV sports security in Sea salt Lake Faculty Utah[2]
Nantz has been easy with say publicly NSSA’s Staterun Sportscaster vacation the Gathering award quintuplet times (1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009).[3] In 2011, Nantz was named trade in a legatee of interpretation Pete Roselle Radio-Television Present from rendering Pro Sport Hall pick up the check Fame.[4]
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Hello Friends: Jim Nantz’s Journey
My whole life launched as a student athlete at the University of Houston. A golf pro I knew named Ron Weber called Dave Williams, the legendary Cougars golf coach. Ron told Coach Williams that I had some game—but I really wanted to study sports broadcasting. Coach Williams watched me play a nine-hole round at The Woodlands. Afterward he said, “Jimbo, I would love you to be a Houston Cougar.” That invitation was one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever received. To this day, it has profoundly affected everything else in my life.
It so happened that I was the worst player on the golf team. When I enrolled in the fall of 1977, we were coming off a national title—the 13th among 16 titles the team won in just 30 seasons. I contributed little to the cause, but I got to be around a group of competitors, winners. They exuded positivity, and we fed off one another. One of my roommates was Fred Couples. He said he hoped one day to win the Masters.
“I don’t see why that can’t happen,” I told him. “You’ve got a game suited for that course. You have the passion. You have the ability.” I knew his path wouldn’t be mine, exactly. But I often said that I wanted to work for CBS one day, and my teammates in turn made me feel that was completely attainable. Th