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Jim Nantz is the voice of CBS Sports.  Since joining CBS in 1985, he has covered virtually every sport for the CBS Television Network.  He currently serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for THE NFL ON CBS, including the past Super Bowl XLI and this season’s Super Bowl in Miami; the anchor of CBS's golf coverage, including the Masters and the PGA Championship; and lead play-by-play announcer for college basketball, including the NCAA Men’s Final Four.  In 2007, Jim completed a rare broadcasting triple in a 63-day span by becoming the first commentator in history to broadcast the Super Bowl, NCAA Men’s Final Four and the Masters, all in the same year.

Among his many other credits, Jim has also anchored THE NFL TODAY, the CBS NFL pre-game studio show; served as the host of THE SUPERBOWL TODAY, CBS Sports' Super Bowl XXXV and XXXVIII pre-game shows; and was the primetime host of CBS Sports' coverage of the 1998 Olympic Winter Games.

On April 27, 2009, Nantz was honored with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality – Play-By-Play at the 30th Annual Sports Emmy Awards.  A week later, he was honored with the 2008 National Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in Salisbury, NC. This marked the fourth time in his career that he had been named the National Sportscaster of the Year as he also won the prestigious award in 2007, 2005 and 1998. He joins Chris Schenkel and Ray Scott as the only CBS broadcasters to win the award more than once. Nantz also was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as the youngest recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2002.

In 2008, Nantz co-authored with Eli Spielman the New York Times bestseller, Always By My Side (published by Gotham Books).  The book climbed to No. 3 on the New York Times list making it the highest ranking achieved in 2008 by a sports book.  Always By My Side spent 7 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Jim told his personal stories from football, basketball and golf and how he met people along the way who reminded him of the virtues his father instilled in him. The foreword to the book was written by one of his father figures and dear friend, former President George H.W. Bush.  The paperback edition of Always By My Side was released on May 5, 2009 and was updated and expanded, including a new afterword.

Nantz graduated in 1981 with a degree in radio/television from the University of Houston, where he was recruited as a member of the golf team. He received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from his alma mater in May 2001 in recognition of his contributions to his profession and to the university.