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Born: Aug. 1, 1946 (La Fontaine, Indiana)
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Career: 1973-2020
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Sports: Hockey
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Primary networks: NBC, NBCSN
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Michael \"Doc\" Emrick got his nickname for earning his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State, and he carried it with him for a lifetime.
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Emrick did broadcasting and public relations on the radio for minor league hockey teams for most of the 1970s until earning his break with the New Jersey Devils in 1982. By 1986, he jumped to the national stage and was the lead play-by-play announcer for The NHL on NBC before going international as the play-by-play announcer for hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
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Emrick's mix of encyclopedic knowledge of the game and humor is what endears him to fans. He ended up covering nine Olympics, including covering water polo at the Summer Games in 2004 and 2012.
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\"Scarrrrarrrarrar!\" —Doc Emrick
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\"Off the pipe!\" —Doc Emrick
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\"Waffleboarded across the net!\" —Doc Emrick
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\"Meanwhile, back at the ranch.\" —Doc Emrick
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Born: Nov. 27, 1916 (Aurora, Illinois)
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Died: Aug. 5, 2002 (age 85, Northridge, California)
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Career: 1957-2002
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Sports: NBA, boxing, college football, college basketball, bowling
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Primary networks: N/A
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Chick Hearn was the Iron Man of sports announcers. He became the play-by-play man for the Los Angeles Lakers in 1961, and after missing a game in November 1965 because he was stranded after doing radio for a college game, he didn't miss a Lakers game until Dec. 16, 2001, an amazing streak of 3,338 consecutive games.
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Hearn was the first broadcaster inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. It's easy to see (and hear) why. He is credited with inventing the terms \"slam dunk\" and \"air ball\" and countless other legendary Chickisms.
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Hearn died from injuries sustained in a fall at his home in 2002. He was 85 years old.
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\"You can put this one in the refrigerator. The door's closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O is jiggling.\" —Chick Hearn
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Born: Jan. 9, 1935 (Mount Clemens, Michigan)
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Died: Dec. 21, 2017 (age 82, La Jolla, California)
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Career: 1975-2016
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Sports: NFL, college football, MLB, NBA, golf, boxing, Olympics, tennis
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Primary networks: NBC, CBS, ESPN
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Dick Enberg's epic career as a play-by-play man lasted a stunning 60 years and, to borrow one of his catchphrases, \"touched 'em all\" when it came to the sports he covered.
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Enberg was great in whatever he covered, but what set him apart from his contemporaries was his ability to call sports outside the mainstream, most notably in tennis.
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Enberg died of a massive heart attack in 2017, at 82 years old, and just one year after his official retirement.
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\"Oh my!\" —Dick Enberg
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Born: April 11, 1965 (West Islip, New York)
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Career: 1990-present
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Sports: NBA, WNBA, college basketball
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Primary networks: ESPN, ABC
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Former Providence College basketball star Doris Burke finished her career with the Friars as the school's career assists leader before transitioning into a broadcasting career in the early 1990s covering Big East women's and men's basketball.
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Burke began to gain fame in the early 2000s as the first woman to work on a broadcast for a New York Knicks game, then as one of ESPN's lead commentators on men's college basketball.
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Burke's talent saw her rise to ESPN's NBA coverage in the late 2000s, and she became the first woman given a full-time analyst job on NBA coverage in 2017, which is a testament to her rare, amazing talent.
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\"The good news is that the best broadcaster in the game is Doris Burke. This has been the case now for years. There is no one remotely close.\" —David Remnick, The New Yorker
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Born: Feb. 28, 1931 (Berlin, Germany)
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Died: Dec. 5, 2020 (age 89, Surrey, England)
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Career: 1961-2015
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Sports: Golf
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Primary networks: BBC, ESPN, ABC
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The greatest golf announcer of all time is Peter Alliss, who had a respectable career as a player with five top 10 finishes at the British Open in the 1950s and 1960s. He began commentating while his career was still going and famously taught Sean Connery how to play golf for the James Bond film \"Goldfinger\" in 1964.
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Alliss became the BBC's lead golf commentator in 1978 and earned a reputation to where he was called the \"voice of golf.\" He also worked for ABC and ESPN throughout his career.
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In a sport well known for prickly, sensitive players, Alliss earned acclaim for calling out players for what he thought was poor behavior, which didn't always make him the most popular guy in those circles. But it made him beloved by fans.
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\"This is so, so, so, so sad. And so unnecessary.\" —Peter Alliss at the 1999 British Open, talking about Jan Van De Velde's meltdown
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Born: Aug. 21, 1924 (Holyoke, Massachusetts)
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Died: June 18, 2002 (age 77, St. Louis, Missouri)
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Career: 1954-96
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Sports: MLB, NFL
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Primary networks: ABC, CBS
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Jack Buck got his big break in the early 1950s, calling St. Louis Cardinals games on the radio in a booth that included him, Harry Caray and Joe Garagiola. Which is pretty amazing.
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Buck was eventually fired, then rehired by the Cardinals in 1969 after Caray was fired, and gained his first measure of fame covering the team. Even though he's closely associated with MLB and the Cardinals, he was also a brilliant NFL commentator for decades. Few have ever been better on the play-by-play side of things.
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Buck died in 2002, at 77 years old.
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\"We will see you tomorrow night.\" —Jack Buck, at the end of Game 6 of the 1991 World Series
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Born: July 31, 1919 (Green River, Wyoming)
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Died: Feb. 20, 2006 (age 86, Palm Beach, Florida)
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Career: 1949-88
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Sports: MLB, NFL/AFL, NBA, Olympics, college basketball
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Primary networks: ABC, NBC
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Curt Gowdy is best known for his baseball coverage. He was the voice of the Boston Red Sox for 15 years, but that kind of undersells how great he was at covering other sports as well.
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The Wyoming native was on the call for some of the famous moments in sports history — Ted Williams' home run in his final at-bat, Super Bowl I, the Jets' historic upset in Super Bowl III, the infamous \"Heidi\" game and, most famously, Hank Aaron's record-setting 715th home run in 1974.
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\"Keep listening. Keep watching.\" —Curt Gowdy, during his speech at the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984, for winning the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually to a broadcaster for \"major contributions to baseball\"
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Born: May 10, 1930 (Lake City, Florida)
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Died: April 16, 2013 (age 82, Dallas, Texas)
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Career: 1962-2002
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Sports: NFL, golf, tennis
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Primary networks: CBS, Fox Sports
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Pat Summerall was a star kicker at the University of Arkansas before playing a decade in the NFL, where he even won an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions in 1952.
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After his retirement, he went directly into the broadcast booth and carved out such an illustrious career that later generations would have to be reminded that he played the game at one point.
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How good was Summerall in the booth? He was the announcer for 16 Super Bowls for network television — more than anyone else in history. It wasn't just football, either. He was just as good at golf and tennis, announcing the Masters 26 times and the U.S. Open 21 times.
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\"Pass is caught by Owens, Owens made the catch.\" —Pat Summerall, calling the 1998 NFC wild-card game
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Born: Nov. 21, 1902 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
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Died: April 21, 1985 (age 82, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada)
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Career: 1921-68
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Sports: NHL
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Primary networks: CBC Television
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Foster Hewitt was a giant in the world of broadcasting. He began working as a radio announcer in the 1920s and was thought, along with his father, to have broadcast the first horse race, ever, alongside his father in 1925.
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Hewitt had something needed desperately in that era — vision. When Maple Leaf Gardens opened in 1931, it came replete with a then-unheard-of broadcast booth, called a \"broadcast gondola\" specifically made for him by Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe.
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Hewitt was the leading voice of Canadian hockey for 40 years and hosted Hockey Night in Canada for most of the 1950s and early 1960s as well. He died in 1985, at 82 years old.
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\"From here, it looks like a herring ... he shoots, he scores!\" —Foster Hewitt
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Born: Feb. 28, 1932 (Kent, England)
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Died: Sept. 1, 2001 (age 69, Greater London, England)
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Career: 1961-98
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Sports: Soccer
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Primary networks: ITV, Sky Sports
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Perhaps the greatest soccer commentator of all time, Brian Moore began his career in newspapers before moving to radio broadcasts for the BBC in 1961, then shot to fame as part of the broadcast team for England's 1966 World Cup victory.
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Moore moved from radio to television as London Weekend Television became ITV and remained with the company for the next three decades. In all, Moore covered nine World Cups and over 20 FA Cup Finals.
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He retired after France's win in the 1998 World Cup final and died of massive heart failure in 2001, at 69 years old.
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\"It's up for grabs now!\" —Brian Moore
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Born: Nov. 29, 1927 (The Bronx, New York)
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Died:Aug. 2, 2022, 94 years old (Hidden Hills, California)
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Career: 1950-2016
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Sports: MLB, NFL, golf
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Primary networks: CBS, NBC
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Vin Scully is the greatest pure baseball announcer of all time, and it's not even close. Scully grew up in the shadow of New York's Polo Grounds and fell in love with the game for the first time after he experienced his first real sports heartbreak when the New York Giants lost in the 1936 World Series.
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Scully began broadcasting for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 and became the youngest person ever to do play-by-play in the World Series at 23 years old, which is a record that still stands to this day. He moved west with the team to Los Angeles in 1958 and delighted Dodgers fans for decades with his golden voice and poetic storytelling.
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Scully stayed in that role until 2016, when he retired after 67 seasons. Scully died in Aug. 2022, at 94 years old.
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\"High fly ball into right field, she is gone! In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. And now the only question was, could he make it around the base paths unassisted.\" —Vin Scully, calling Kirk Gibson's game-winning home in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series
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Born: Oct. 18, 1928 (Roopville, Georgia)
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Died: Jan. 12, 2018 (age 89, Los Angeles, California)
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Career: 1952-2006
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Sports: College football, MLB, NBA, boxing, golf, USFL, Olympics
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Primary networks: ABC
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In the history of football, there is one voice that stands above the rest. That would be the voice of one Keith Jackson.
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Seattle Times columnist Steve Kelly once wrote of Jackson: \"That voice, low and rumbling, like the first shake of a giant earthquake, told us this game was worth watching. ... His was a throwback voice, deep and operatic. ... That voice warmed a living room on a cold autumn afternoon. His was the sound of autumn, as much a part of the season as the crackle from the first bite of an apple, or the gold-tinged foliage, or the carved pumpkins on the front stoop.\"
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That, my friends, is how you write a sports column about Keith Jackson.
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The legend died in 2018 at 89 years old.
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\"Whoa, Nellie!\" —Keith Jackson
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Born: May 17, 1959 (Charlotte, North Carolina)
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Career: 1982-present
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Sports: NFL, college basketball, NBA, golf
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Primary networks: CBS
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Few announcers have made themselves as synonymous with a single event as Jim Nantz has done with the Masters, where it's hard to imagine anything but his voice narrating the action, which he's done since 1989.
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Nantz isn't just the Masters, however. He's become just as famous in the last decade-plus as the play-by-play announcer for the lead CBS NFL football game every week. And because of his dynamic chemistry with former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and color analyst Tony Romo.
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\"A tradition unlike any other.\" —Jim Nantz
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Born: Nov. 12, 1944 (Brooklyn, New York)
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Career: 1971-present
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Sports: NFL, Olympics, MLB, NBA, NHL, horse racing, boxing
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Primary networks: NBC, CBS, ABC
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If we're talking about the most famous moments in sports announcer history, Al Michaels owns at least two of the top five and probably has the No. 1 spot if we're being honest. Anybody want to tell us what's more iconic than his \"Do you believe in miracles?!\" as the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team upset the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, New York.
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The iconic moments of Michaels' career are too numerous to list here, but aside from the \"Miracle on Ice\" game, it was Michaels who walked audiences through the devastating earthquake in San Francisco before Game 3 of the 1989 World Series.
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\"Five seconds left in the game ... do you believe in miracles?! Yes!\" —Al Michaels, making his famous call at the 1980 Winter Olympics
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Born: March 22, 1952 (Queens, New York)
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Career: 1973-present
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Sports: Everything
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Primary networks: NBC, HBO, MLB Network
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Bob Costas was only 22 years old when he caught his first break as the radio announcer for the St. Louis Spirits of the American Basketball Association. Then, he hit it big when NBC kingmaker Don Ohlmeyer hired him in 1980, famously saying the 28-year-old Costas \"looked like a 14-year-old.\"
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Costas carved out one of the greatest careers in broadcasting history over the ensuing decades. There is literally no major event that Costas hasn't had a hand in covering in that time. And he gave even simple phrases an unmistakable touch. Who could forget \"He's still Michael Jordan\"?
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Costas worked for NBC for 40 years and won 29 Emmy Awards, and no game ever seemed too big for the Queens, New York, native. Our personal favorite was his call of the Kobe-to-Shaq alley-oop in Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals.
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\"Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead!\" —Bob Costas, calling Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals, when the Bulls closed out the Jazz
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Born: Sept. 24, 1921 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Died: June 7, 2008 (age 86, Monkton, Maryland)
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Career: 1955-2006
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Sports: Everything
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Primary networks: ABC
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One of the things that get lost in being a sports announcer, sometimes, is the fact that you're still a journalist and your first allegiance is to journalism. That's something Jim McKay never had a problem with.
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Perhaps the most respected sports television journalist of all time, McKay covered the Olympics 12 times and is most well-known for his coverage of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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McKay also played studio host to the FIFA World Cup twice — a testament to the respect he held on the international stage.McKay died in 2006, at 86 years old.
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\"They're all gone.\" —Jim McKay at the 1972 Munich Olympics
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Born: March 25, 1918 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
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Died: April 23, 1995 (age 77, New York, New York)
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Career: 1953-93
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Sports: NFL, Olympics, boxing
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Primary networks: ABC
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Over 25 years after his death, Howard Cosell remains the most well-known sports announcer of all time. The arc and influence of his career is still felt in every sports broadcast we view today.
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Cosell turned his back on a law career — he graduated from NYU School of Law — and caught a shooting star by covering Muhammad Ali in his early days. Then Cosell became the face of Monday Night Football and a key part of Olympics coverage for ABC.
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Known for his tremendous ego as well as his talent, Cosell's most famous call came during a MNF game on Dec. 5, 1980, when he announced to a shocked nation that John Lennon had been shot to death in New York City.
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\"Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.\" —Howard Cosell
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