North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame: Jim Nantz

The 60th Class of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame includes Jim Nantz who took time to talk with Bahakel Sports Director, Jeff Taylor. The Charlotte native and CBS broadcaster is a three-Emmy Award winner and five-time National Sportscaster of the Year. Nantz anchors the golf telecasts on CBS and is the lead play-by-play announcer for the network’s NFL broadcasts. He also spent 32 years as the lead play-by-play announcer for NCAA basketball coverage on CBS. Nantz received the 2011 Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award and the 2002 Curt Gowdy Media Award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He also partnered with Houston Methodist Hospital at the Texas Medical Center to create the Nantz National Alzheimer Center.