“I never practice calls. Everything you hear is reactionary. The way I look at it is that broadcasters are just paid observers, just there to tell you what we see.”

American sportscaster

Jim Nantz is an American sportscaster who has been a familiar CBS voice since 1985. Born James William Nantz III, he has covered major professional and college sports across football, basketball, golf, and the PGA Tour. He has anchored CBS’s Masters Tournament coverage since 1989 and became the network’s lead NFL play-by-play announcer in 2004. From 1990 to 2023, he was also the lead broadcaster for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, making his career closely associated with some of CBS’s best-known sports broadcasts.