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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 pas
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Jim Nantz
American sportscaster (born 1959)
For the American football player, see Jim Nance.
James William Nantz III (born May 17, 1959) is an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the National Football League (NFL), NCAA Division I men's basketball, the NBA, and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1980s. He has anchored CBS's coverage of the Masters Tournament since 1989 and been the lead play-by-play announcer on CBS's NFL coverage since 2004. He was also the lead broadcaster for the NCAA men's basketball tournament from 1990 to 2023.
Early life and education
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Nantz grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana,[1]Colts Neck Township, New Jersey,[2] and Marlboro Township, New Jersey,[3] where he attended Marlboro High School.[4] In high school, he was co-captain of the basketball team and co-captain and number one player on the golf team. He was a member of Bamm Hollow Country Club.
Nantz then matriculated at the University of Houston where he played on the Cougars men's golf team,
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Jim Nantz
“Hello, friends.” That’s far more than a calling card or a catch phrase. It’s a daily reminder that, in the sports-broadcasting industry, we’re family.
For 35 years, Jim Nantz has been family to millions of U.S. television viewers who have welcomed the legendary broadcaster into their homes for some of sports TV’s biggest events, including countless NFL and March Madness games, as well as thrilling major golf tourneys.
It’s a rare and special feat to achieve an entire career’s worth of successes at one network, but that is what Nantz has done. After graduating from the University of Houston and serving brief stints at CBS affiliates in San Antonio and Salt Lake City, he got his big break with the network. It was obvious from the get-go that he was where he belonged.
“He just blew everybody away with his audition,” says Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Ed Goren, who was an executive producer at CBS Sports at the time. “The guy was 25, 26, and smooth as could be. It was a pretty easy decision to offer him the job.”
In his 34 years (and counting) at CBS, Nantz has, so
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