“I was named first-team Jersey Shore by the Asbury Park Press, the paper I used to deliver as a young boy. I got to Houston and Coach Williams invited me to walk on the golf team. I was the 18th man on an 18-man golf team.”

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.