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Brent Musburger
Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939) is an American sportscaster, currently the lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network (VSiN).
With CBS Sports from 1973 until 1990, he was the original host of their program The NFL Today and is credited with coining the phrase "March Madness" to describe the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament while covering the Final Four. While at CBS, Musburger also covered the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, the World Series, U.S. Open tennis, The Masters and college football, including Hail Flutie and Catholics vs. Convicts.
Joining ESPN and ABC Sports in 1990, Musburger continued to cover the NBA Finals, as well as hosting Monday Night Football and providing play-by-play for Saturday Night Football and the SEC Network. He covered the Indianapolis 500 motor race, U.S. Open and British Open golf, the FIFA World Cup in soccer, the Belmont Stakes in horse racing, the Rose Bowl and the College Football national championship among other big events. In January 2017, he left the ESPN and ABC television networks after 27 years, briefly retiring from play-by-play of live sports before returning as the play-by-play voice of the Las Vegas Raiders from 2018 until 2022.
Raised in Billings, Montana, he is a member of the Montana Broadcaster's Association Hall of Fame.
Musburger was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Billings, Montana, the son of Beryl Ruth (Woody) and Cec Musburger. His brother, Todd Musburger, is a prominent sports agent.
His love of sports began as a boy, where he played Little League Baseball and was a boyhood friend of former Major League pitcher Dave McNally. He also sold programs at Billings Mustangs games in the late 1940s and early 50s.
Musburger's youth included some brushes with trouble: when he was 12, he and his brother stole a car belonging to their mother's cleaning lady and took it for a joy ride. His parents sent him to the Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minnesota. Educated at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he was kicked out for a year for owning and operating a car without a license.
Around this time, Musburger was a minor league baseball umpire in the Class-D Midwest League for the 1959 season. While previously reported that Musburger was the home plate umpire when future MLB All-Star and Ford C. Frick Award winner Tim McCarver made his professional baseball debut that summer for the Keokuk Cardinals, the story is apocryphal. However, Musburger did umpire games of McCarver's later in that season.
Brent Musburger
Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939) is an American sportscaster, currently the lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network (VSiN).
With CBS Sports from 1973 until 1990, he was the original host of their program The NFL Today and is credited with coining the phrase "March Madness" to describe the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament while covering the Final Four. While at CBS, Musburger also covered the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, the World Series, U.S. Open tennis, The Masters and college football, including Hail Flutie and Catholics vs. Convicts.
Joining ESPN and ABC Sports in 1990, Musburger continued to cover the NBA Finals, as well as hosting Monday Night Football and providing play-by-play for Saturday Night Football and the SEC Network. He covered the Indianapolis 500 motor race, U.S. Open and British Open golf, the FIFA World Cup in soccer, the Belmont Stakes in horse racing, the Rose Bowl and the College Football national championship among other big events. In January 2017, he left the ESPN and ABC television networks after 27 years, briefly retiring from play-by-play of live sports before returning as the play-by-play voice of the Las Vegas Raiders from 2018 until 2022.
Raised in Billings, Montana, he is a member of the Montana Broadcaster's Association Hall of Fame.
Musburger was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Billings, Montana, the son of Beryl Ruth (Woody) and Cec Musburger. His brother, Todd Musburger, is a prominent sports agent.
His love of sports began as a boy, where he played Little League Baseball and was a boyhood friend of former Major League pitcher Dave McNally. He also sold programs at Billings Mustangs games in the late 1940s and early 50s.
Musburger's youth included some brushes with trouble: when he was 12, he and his brother stole a car belonging to their mother's cleaning lady and took it for a joy ride. His parents sent him to the Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minnesota. Educated at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he was kicked out for a year for owning and operating a car without a license.
Around this time, Musburger was a minor league baseball umpire in the Class-D Midwest League for the 1959 season. While previously reported that Musburger was the home plate umpire when future MLB All-Star and Ford C. Frick Award winner Tim McCarver made his professional baseball debut that summer for the Keokuk Cardinals, the story is apocryphal. However, Musburger did umpire games of McCarver's later in that season.
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