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Jim Gray

Renowned Sportscaster

Jim Gray started his career as an intern and a video tape editor back in 1977. Working his way up the ranks, Gray established himself quickly and has been a network television and national cable sportscaster since 1981. He has worked with CBS Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN, ABC-TV, and is currently with Showtime, Fox, and Westwood One Radio.

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Jim Gray started his career as an intern and a video tape editor back in 1977. Working his way up the ranks, Gray established himself quickly and has been a network television and national cable sportscaster since 1981. He has worked with CBS Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN, ABC-TV, and is currently with Showtime, Fox, and Westwood One Radio.

His career highlights include coverage of numerous Olympic Games, NFL Super Bowls,  MLB World Series, NBA Finals,  NCAA Final Fours, Masters Golf Tournaments, and hundreds World Championship Boxing matches. Gray has also broadcast on numerous occasions the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup, NBA and MLB All-Star Games, National Football League AFC and NFC Championship Games, and Major League Baseball American and National League Championship Series Games, the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, and Orange Bowls. He has reported on literally thousands of games and events in his career, as well as hosting a number of high profile prime time specials.

Throughout his career, Gray has earned numerous awards and honors. He has won 11 national Emmy Awards for journalism and reporting. Gray was named Sportscaster of the Year in 1998 and 1999 as “Sports Reporter of the Year” by his member peers of the American Sportscasters Association. In 1997, Gray won the prestigious “Broadcast of the Year Award” presented by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association for his interview with Mike Tyson following “Tyson vs. Holyfield II.” Twelve times Gray has been named Sports Reporter of the Year by the USA Today, and that same publication in April 2005 named Gray the country’s best sports reporter of the past quarter century.

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