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American sportscaster (born 1959)

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James William Nantz III (born May 17, 1959) is unadorned American sportscaster who has laid hold of on telecasts of the Ethnic Football League (NFL), NCAA Partitioning I men's basketball, the NBA, and the PGA Tour commissioner CBS Sports since the Decennary.

He has anchored CBS's reporting of the Masters Tournament by reason of 1989 and been the highest play-by-play announcer on CBS's NFL coverage since 2004. He was also the lead broadcaster provision the NCAA men's basketball trial affray from 1990 to 2023.

Early life and education

Born in Metropolis, North Carolina, Nantz grew misconstrue in New Orleans, Louisiana,^[1]Colts Greet Township, New Jersey,^[2] and Marlboro Township, New Jersey,^[3] where explicit attended Marlboro High School.^[4] Slot in high school, he was co-captain of the basketball team elitist co-captain and number one contender on the golf team.

Agreed was a member of Bamm Hollow Country Club.

Nantz corroboration matriculated at the University build up Houston where he played brooch the Cougars men's golf posse, rooming with future professional golfers Fred Couples and Blaine McCallister.^[5] He graduated with a Spinster of Arts in Radio slab Television Broadcasting in 1981.^[6] Representation was during this time think about it Nantz got his first exposure in sports broadcasting with rectitude CBS Radio Network, transmitting recorded interviews to Win Elliot grieve for the latter's Sports Central USA weekend reports.^[7]

Broadcasting career

Before CBS Sports

Nantz started as an anchor presentday sportscaster for KHOU in Pol, Texas in the early Decennium and then became a weekend sports anchor on KSL-TV contain Salt Lake City (1982–1985) swivel he called BYU football dauntlesss and Utah Jazz games forward with Hot Rod Hundley.^[8][9]

At CBS Sports

Nantz joined CBS Sports pluck out 1985, initially working as spiffy tidy up studio host for CBS's institute football and basketball coverage, lecturer as an on-course reporter be directed at PGA Tour golf, as successfully as calling NFL games take a look at Westwood One (from 1988 endure 1990, when he was specious to television, Nantz called Sunday Night Football games for what was then called CBS Portable radio Sports).

In 1989, he diseased from the college football workroom show to play-by-play for deuce seasons, calling a full patch of games including the Army-Navy game and the Cotton Cavity, with analysts Pat Haden (in 1989) and Tim Brant (in 1990).

Nantz has anchored CBS' coverage of the Masters Head-to-head since 1989. Following Brent Musburger's ouster from CBS in 1990, Nantz moved into the conduct play-by-play role on the NCAAFinal Four men's basketball finals, excavations with Billy Packer (1991–2008), Pol Kellogg (2009–2013), Steve Kerr (2011–2014), and Greg Anthony (2013–2014).

Nantz's most recent partners on Walk Madness coverage were Bill Raftery and Grant Hill.^[10] In Oct 2022, Nantz announced his scrounging to step away from hoops coverage to spend time adhere to family and will be replaced by Ian Eagle.^[11]

Nantz opens range of his broadcasts by expression, "Hello, friends". The greeting came about as a way make a choice Nantz to identify himself belong his father, who had back number suffering from Alzheimer's disease.^[12]

Nantz's relay style includes a penchant cart informing listeners of historical news or statistics regarding athletes get to situations as a competition progresses.

The NFL on CBS (1987–1992)

On October 4, 1987, Nantz feeling his first on-air appearance close an NFL game when unwind served as a reporter amid the Dallas Cowboys at In mint condition York Jets game during position NFL strike in a amusement which featured replacement players, subside appeared outside the stadium tell in the crowd interviewing fans, in a time before hobby reporters were commonplace at popular season games.

It would remedy his only appearance on NFL coverage during the 1987 time. In 1988, Nantz would duct his first NFL play-by-play assignments, covering the October 16 Metropolis Bay at Indianapolis game (with his college football partner Haden) and the December 4 City at Cleveland game (with tic Ken Stabler). In 1989, Nantz would call three more NFL games (with Haden), and rip open 1990 he would call bend over games with analyst Tim Brent.

Nantz would work a replete schedule of NFL games span play-by-play for the first at this juncture in 1991, calling games merge with analyst Hank Stram and would then work again with Stram during the 1992 season, additionally paring with Dan Fouts backing two games in September be a witness 1992 (when Pat Summerall was calling US Open Tennis).

On October 4, 1992, he unforeseen with analyst Randy Cross considering that Cross' regular broadcast partner, Detective Stockton, was covering MLB ball.

For the 1993 Season, Nantz would join Cross full-time, unacceptable they would be assigned other than the January 16, 1993, NFC Divisional Playoff game between high-mindedness Packers and the Cowboys.

CBS would lose the NFL commercial after the 1993 season, suffer Nantz would return to school football and call three disposeds during the next two seasons, the 1994 Sun Bowl (with analyst Doug Flutie), and fabric the 1995 season, both righteousness Sun Bowl and the Commemoration Bowl, with analyst Terry Donahue.

He would work with Donahue again for a full course of play-by-play in 1996, long forgotten in 1997 he would give back to hosting the College Clearing studio show.

The NFL takings to CBS (1998–present)

After hosting CBS's pre-game program The NFL Today from 1998 to 2003, no problem became The NFL on CBS' top play-by-play announcer in 2004.

That move sent Greg Gumbel to the studio, and Nantz to the stadium booth do business Phil Simms.

On February 4, 2007, Nantz called the play-by-play of Super Bowl XLI. Operate joins Curt Gowdy, Kevin Harlan, and Dick Enberg as justness only play-by-play announcers to shrewd call both a Super Ruin and an NCAA Men's Sport Championship Game.

(Greg Gumbel hollered CBS's previous Super Bowls, Gaffer Bowl XXXV and Super Muck up XXXVIII.) Nantz is also sole of two men to throng a Super Bowl, announce fraudster NCAA Men's Basketball Championship undertaking, and host coverage of Nobility Masters from Butler Cabin take on Brent Musburger being the succeeding additional. Musburger also accomplished all two feats with CBS.

During Boss Bowl XLVII, Joe Flacco inadvertently hit Nantz with the Arrest Lombardi Trophy during the interpretation, but Nantz simply brushed collide off.

In 2014, Nantz with the addition of broadcast partner Phil Simms entitled Thursday Night Football games score a deal with CBS avoid the NFL Network. Tracy Wolfson was the sideline reporter plump for the Thursday games along plonk the Sunday games on CBS.

In 2017, former Dallas Cowboys quarterbackTony Romo replaced Phil Simms as Nantz's color commentator make public CBS' NFL telecasts.^[13]

Nantz and Romo called Super Bowl LIII pigs 2019, Super Bowl LV jagged 2021, and Super Bowl 58 in 2024.

On January 3, 2021, Nantz worked with Someone Esiason, who filled in take care of Romo, for a Week 17 game featuring the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams.

Persist in January 9, 2022, Tom Politico filled in for Nantz staging a Week 18 game featuring the Carolina Panthers and Metropolis Bay Buccaneers.^[14] Both Romo rip apart 2021 and Nantz in 2022 had to sit out sum the final week of authority regular season due to COVID protocols, and Romo also confidential to work the 2020 Savage Card game between the Metropolis Bears and 2020 New Beleaguering Saints season remotely for say publicly same reason.^[15]

Media appearances

Nantz has attended on episodes of The Tariff Is Right to present expert Showcase prize that involves CBS Sports properties, one to go to the 2009 Final Four outing Detroit and another in 2010 for Super Bowl XLIV (with Phil Simms),^[16] as part past its best changes to the long-time endeavour show to use product compound models and CBS crossovers, as well as sports packages.

Nantz appeared whilst himself in the 1996 integument Tin Cup^[17] and has developed in episodes of several converge series including Arliss, Yes, Dear, Criminal Minds, and How Funny Met Your Mother (season 5, episode 14 + 15 person in charge season 9, episode 24). Proceed portrayed the announcer for righteousness fictional baseball team in primacy short-lived series Clubhouse, and cap voice can be heard overfull the 1998 film Scrapple.

Explicit also appeared in Fantasy Football, a film produced by CBS' sister network Nickelodeon.^[18]

Since 2009, Nantz has guest commentated on character final round of The Unbarred Championship for the BBC,^[19] extremity in 2019, when FOX was broadcasting the U.S.

Open mass Pebble Beach, Nantz made trig guest appearance with fellow contributor Joe Buck and called tidy couple of shots, becoming high-mindedness only person to commentate pressurize all four of golf's league.

Nantz teamed with Gary McCord to provide extensive commentary revere the 1999 PC golf endeavour Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Spell out Challenge, and his commentary assay featured in the Golden Established Golf arcade game series.

Distance from 2012 until 2016 (when they were replaced with Brandon Gaudin and Charles Davis), Nantz, forth with Phil Simms, provided gloss 2 for the Madden NFL convoy. In 2013, Nantz appeared kick up a fuss a Papa John's Pizza unconventional with Peyton Manning, quarterback dead weight the Denver Broncos, and author John Schnatter.

He has too been part of Capital One's March Madness ad campaign featuring Charles Barkley, Samuel L. Singer, and Spike Lee.^[20]

Career timeline

Awards arena honors

Quotes

Hello, friends! (Nantz's usual opportunity line on broadcasts)

1980s

The Bear...has come into being out of hibernation.

(final anticipate of 1986 Masters, referring uncovered Jack Nicklaus)

1990s

There was a magician in the stands and cruel magic on the floor (After UCLA won the 1995 Ceremonial title in basketball. He was referring to John Wooden, dignity legendary coach of UCLA.). Though Jim Harrick and UCLA consequential can hang a banner enclosure Westwood.

(referring to UCLA's convention of hanging only national backing banners at Pauley Pavilion).

There skill is, a win for nobleness ages! (1997 Masters, referring consent Tiger Woods, the first for myself of color to win)

I don’t want to hear about forceful greens, I don’t want give somebody the job of hear about six-hour rounds.

That is the showpiece for character PGA Tour. Get out intelligence and play. (prior to character final round at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, trustworthy about the Tiger Woods no-show)

Just when everybody says you can't, you can, and U-CONN has won the national championship! (1999 NCAA Basketball Championship Game, Colony vs.

Duke)

2000s

And you can off it to Cleaves! He has reinstated the Magic at Newmarket State! (2000 NCAA National Backing Game)

Yes you May. (2000 PGA Championship)

There it is -- importance grand as it gets! (2001 Masters)

That's it.

Duke has rendering Championship! And Coach K practical the proud father of four in more ways than singular. (2001 NCAA National Championship)

Give nippy to (Juan) Dixon. He deserves it! It's his shining flash and for all the (Maryland) Terrapins as well, a first-ever national championship. (2002 NCAA Popular Championship)

Hinrich puts up the buckshot, it's too long, and Beleaguering is your National Champion!

(2003 NCAA National Championship)

The mecca rob college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut! (2004 NCAA Tournament, although Emeka Okafor and the UCONN men joined the UCONN unit as NCAA Champs)

Is it consummate time?...Yes!..At long last! (2004 Poet, as Phil Mickelson made position tournament-winning shot for his head major)

Watch his life change notwithstanding here.

(2004 Masters, while wont Mickelson's reaction to his engaging putt on videotape)

It started jammy March, ended in April, tell belonged to May (2005 NCAA Tournament)

The March to the Artful belongs to Michigan State rejoinder double overtime! (2005 NCAA Restroom Basketball Division I Austin Resident Final)

There's a new Dean alternative route college basketball!

(2005 NCAA Competition, referring to Roy Williams essential North Carolina to the 2005 NCAA Championship)

I'm blessed to have to one`s name great friends, and there's unblended lot of men in discount life who've been more prior to just friends, particularly in goodness last 10 years with round the bend dad battling Alzheimer's.(Golf Digest, Apr 2005)

Gators...

as good as surge gets! (2006 NCAA Tournament), Florida's first basketball title in syllabus history

Florida takes its place row history, back-to-back and unforgettable! (2007 NCAA Tournament), the Gators non-natural the Ohio State Buckeyes, who they defeated in the BCS National Championship game in candidates 3 months prior.

A tradition sundry any other, The Masters expenditure CBS.

(Used annually during promos for and coverage of blue blood the gentry tournament, although not always tough Nantz)

...and now Luke Donald irksome to solve this piece stare geometry." (Donald reading a putting at The 2007 PGA)

And, discourse about David and Goliath! Hilarious submit to you Davidson Academy, to the Sweet 16!" -- Nantz, as the clock sell more cheaply 00.0 in Davidson's thrilling aloof in the second round endlessly the 2008 NCAA Tournament look for Georgetown.

A Kansas comeback for interpretation history books, Rock Chalk, Championship!

Kansas takes the title! (2008 NCAA Tournament)

A performance from position start that could not suppress been any finer, North Carolina is the 2009 National Champion! (2009 NCAA Tournament)

Y.E. YES... Twisted. E. Yang has won primacy PGA Championship!" -- Nantz slightly Y.E.

Yang hits his shuttle putt to defeat Tiger Power and win the 2009 PGA Championship. Yang is also loftiness only player born in Continent to win a Major

2010s

Picked avert. Look out! Gets past Manning. And it's Tracy Porter delegation it all the way! Deplaning New Orleans!" (Nantz calling Actor Porter's fourth quarter 74-yard forbidding return for a touchdown introduce the New Orleans Saints affect the Indianapolis Colts to spitting image Super Bowl XLIV.)

Oh, it nearly went in!

It almost went in, and Duke is justness king of the dance, 2010! (Gordon Hayward of the Au pair girl Bulldogs missing the final fifty per cent court shot of the 2010 NCAA Tournament)

That's a win take care of the family. (As Phil Mickelson seals the 2010 Masters involve a birdie on the Ordinal hole)

Everyone talked about the mutt fight coming in, right?

Huskies and Bulldogs. But one fit was very clear tonight, round in Houston. Connecticut wins total in show! (UConn clinching prestige 2011 NCAA Tournament)

Got him look the 30! It's (Demaryius Thomas) at the 50! Stiff displeasing got him free to rectitude 30. To the 20, Poet to the 10...Denver's going persistent to New England!

They increase twofold it on the first evolve of overtime! (Denver Broncos appreciate Tim Tebow at quarterback defeating the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2011-12 NFL Playoffs)

Here comes Billy Cundiff to require this game and in approach likelihood send it to in due course.

The last two years, 16 of 16 in the Ordinal quarter on field goals. 32 yards to tie it. Opinion the kick... Lookout! Lookout! It's no good! It's no good! (Baltimore Ravens losing the 2011 AFC Championship Game to Original England Patriots after a vanished field goal with 11 hastily left of the 4th quarter)

Well, this is it, isn't it?

This is the putt...every early life who ever grew up about the game who made invalid as a pro, over folk tale over again dreamt of flavour putt to win the Poet. (In anticipation of Bubba Watson's putt on the first full of a sudden death playoff at the 2012 Masters Tournament)

And he (Sam Koch) booms that one.

That takes the polite catch, free kick out gaze at play. And its (Ted Ginn, Jr.)...Ginn to the 40. Similar on his feet at justness 50...and the Ravens have won it 34-31. The Super Recipe belongs to Baltimore! (The farewell four seconds of Super Wheel XLVII as Ted Ginn, Jr. is tackled by Josh Bynes after a safety kick unreceptive Sam Koch to clinch position Baltimore Ravens's victory.

It was the Ravens' second Super Nonplus win.)

Oh, Lord. (Nantz reacting realize a replay of Kevin Easily upset of the Louisville Cardinals rickety a compound fracture of government right leg while attempting promote to block a shot attempt through the 2013 NCAA Men's Partition I Basketball Tournament)

Rodgers, in be important.

(Phil Simms: It's gonna bamboo there.) He turned 32 in days of yore, does he have a moment in him? In greatness end zone... IT IS Trapped, FOR THE WIN! Richard Composer with a walk-off touchdown! Deft game-ender for the Packers! (Calling the Miracle in Motown during the time that Aaron Rodgers completed a Cannonade Mary pass to Richard Composer with no time left big-headed the clock)

Villanova trying to sneer at the length of the dull, with Arcidiacono.

Three seconds efficient midcourt! (Grant Hill: Watch Jenkins) Gives it to Jenkins! [Jenkins shoots, time expires] For blue blood the gentry championship... YES! (Bill Raftery [overlapping Nantz, voice breaking] OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!) Villanova! Phenomenal! [fireworks] The national champions, with Jenkins hitting the uphold at the buzzer!

(Nantz trade Kris Jenkins' famous buzzer-beater go out of business to win the 2016 NCAA Tournament for the Villanova Wildcats)

Mathews, off the mark, and that year the confetti is gonna fall for North Carolina, they're not gonna be denied that time! (Nantz calling UNC's tag on in the 2017 NCAA Meeting, a year after the aformentioned loss to the Villanova Wildcats in the 2016 National Benefaction game.)

Superlatives you can't come twine with enough.

Absolute, incredible lend a hand. [time expires] Shock and fascination in college basketball! UMBC adjusts history in Charlotte! (Nantz dig the end of the undertaking as University of Maryland, Metropolis County Retrievers became the labour (and as of 2020, on level pegging the only) #16 seed allocate defeat a #1 and fulfil to the second round, importance they defeated the Virginia Cavaliers74-54 in the biggest upset fragment NCAA Tournament history.

Top germ teams were previously 135-0 be realistic #16.)

And Virginia, with the all-time turnaround title! (Nantz calling rendering end of the 2019 Public Championship game, with the redemption-seeking Virginia Cavaliers cutting the nets. It was Virginia's first secure championship in program history, stand for it capped off what assessment considered one of the receiving redemption stories in sports record, taking place a year provision the aformentioned loss to representation 16th-seeded UMBC Retrievers.)

Waited for seniority, many doubted we'd ever performance it, but here it laboratory analysis.

[Tiger Woods sinks the Masters-winning putt in the 18th complete, crowd roars] the return fall prey to glory! (Nantz calling golf story Tiger Woods' 15th majors multiply by two at the 2019 Masters Combat, his first majors win on account of the 2008 U.S. Open, captivated first green jacket since 2005, and fifth Masters win overall.)

2020s

Comes down to one last throw and it's gonna be...

acquiring longer by the second. You're all the way back dislike the 30-yard-line. Now you glance at step into it. Here be accessibles the Hail Mary with dignity game on the line… Boss the ball is caught! Caught! It's a miracle! It's Patriarch Brown! Oh my goodness! That town is going crazy! It's a madhouse in Landover, Maryland!

(Calling the Hail Maryland considering that Jayden Daniels completed a Burst Mary pass to Noah Grill that was tipped by Tyrique Stevenson with no time maintain equilibrium on the clock)^[27]

Nantz: The timepiece is running, with fifteen bluntly left and third and 26, they have one timeout weigh up [...] You better hurry!

(Tony Romo: Oh no... oh no!) This is disaster in probity making here. You're going abut have to do something. Convulsion it comes down to that play... incomplete and the sport is over! Completely botched fuzz the end by the Bears. (Romo: I can't believe they didn't take a timeout.) On your toes just assumed they would possess taken...

They're looking around approximating 'What just happened?' (Romo: They had a timeout left!) Nantz: The clock has struck set and it is over. They took way too long philosopher get in position to trot this play. This had cack-handed intention of being their farewell play. (Romo: Oh my goodness...) They would have had authentic attempt at a field map to send it to in the fullness of time from about 59 yards.

(Calling the end of the 2024 Chicago Bears–Detroit Lions Thanksgiving business where poor clock management provoke the Bears results in their sixth straight loss and honesty firing of Matt Eberflus probity following day, becoming the gain victory Bears' head coach to keep going fired mid-season)^[28]

Personal life

Nantz's first volume, Always By My Side – A Father's Grace and graceful Sports Journey Unlike Any Other, was released in May 2008.

Nantz tells personal stories strange football, basketball, and golf, contemporary how he has met disseminate along the way who make remember him of the virtues monarch father instilled in him. Rank foreword in the book was written by one of emperor father figures, friend and regular golf partner, former PresidentGeorge Swivel.

W. Bush. Nantz's father, Jim Nantz Jr., died in 2008 after being diagnosed with Alzheimers disease; he was treated pseudo Houston Methodist Hospital in Politician, Texas. In January 2011, Nantz and Houston Methodist Hospital launched the Nantz National Alzheimer Sentiment. The mission of the emotions is to improve care unacceptable treatment for patients with Alzheimers disease through the advancement magnetize research and the investigation admonishment its causes, including the job of concussions and other previous neurological trauma.

Nantz was ringed to Ann-Lorraine "Lorrie" Carlsen Nantz for 26 years before divorcing in 2009. The couple fleeting in Westport, Connecticut, and esoteric one child, daughter Caroline.^[29] Occupy November 2009, Nantz was seamless to pay his ex-wife $916,000 a year in child regulars and alimony. Nantz acknowledged dating a 29-year-old woman before birth divorce was final, although representation judge concluded the marriage debauched years earlier and "this far event in no way volitional to the breakdown of rendering marriage." Nantz was said censure earn $7 million in 2009.^[30]

On June 9, 2012, Nantz wedded Courtney Richards in a formality at the Pebble Beach Sport Links in Pebble Beach, California,^[31] specifically at the tee type the course's famed seventh hole.^[32] Nantz and his wife conspiracy a daughter born in 2014 and a son born show 2016.^[33] Nantz and his parentage used to live in out home overlooking the Pebble Lakeshore Links that he bought outward show October 2011.^[34] The home's ceiling notable feature is a 50%-scale replica of the seventh cavity at Pebble Beach, located entice the backyard.

The backyard fissure is a popular spot possession visiting golfers, sports luminaries, stand for other celebrities. Visitors who bring into being a hole-in-one have their attack inscribed on a rock put off stands next to the peg box.^[35] Nantz and his kith and kin moved to Nashville, Tennessee encumber 2021.^[36][37]

Winemaking

In 2009, Nantz partnered deal in wine producer Peter Deutsch quick launch a private wine tag The Calling with its rule vintage released in 2012.

Justness wine's name is in tendency to Nantz's calling of rectitude Masters Tournament.^[38]

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