Brent Musburger: Biography
Brent Musburger is one of the most versatile and talented broadcasters in the industry.
A preeminent voice of college football and college basketball play-by-play, Musburger is also the host of ABC Sports' coverage of the Little League World Series. He served as the pregame and half-time host of ABC Sports' coverage of Super Bowl XXV, marking the 16th time he had participated the coverage of the nation's most popular sports spectacular. He covered the World Track & Field Championships and U.S. Outdoor Track and Field championships in 1995; and has served as host of ABC's golf telecasts and hosted the 1991 Pan American Games from Cuba.
Prior to joining ABC Sports, Musburger was a member of CBS Sports' announce team from 1975. He anchored "The NFL Today" pregame, halftime and post-game NFL telecasts. Additionally, he was the lead play-by-play announcer for the NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament. Brent also hosted "CBS Sports Saturday/Sunday," the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, the NBA Finals, the Masters Tournament and the Pan American Games.
While attending Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Brent was lured away to the Chicago American, where he became an award-winning sportswriter. He began his sports career as a professional umpire for the Midwest Baseball League in 1959. His broadcast career started when he joined WBBM Radio in Chicago in 1968 as Sports Director. He was later named Sports Director of WBBM-TV before moving to Los Angeles to co-anchor the nightly news of KNXT-TV.
Brent lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his wife, Arlene, and their two sons.
- Brent was a boyhood friend of former Major League pitcher Dave McNally.(edit)
- He worked alongside Connie Chung doing local Los Angeles newscasts during the early 1970s.(edit)
- In November 2006, an action figure of himself was released as part of the Rocky II series of figures.(edit)
- He has a "down-home" manner of speaking, often addressing his viewers as "folks" or "partner," such as, "Folks, here's your third down and 10" and "Now hold on, partner... there's a penalty."(edit)
- He is regarded as the first broadcaster to apply the term "March Madness" to the annual NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament.(edit)
- Brent provided his voice for the play-by-play commentary for the 2000 Konami video game ESPN NBA Tonight.(edit)
- Some of the words and phrases Brent frequently uses during his telecasts are included in "The Brent Musburger Drinking Game," including: "The Pardner," "Folks," "It's a foot race!" and "There's that man again."(edit)
- Brent was an umpire for Minor League baseball during the 1950s.(edit)
- He attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois.(edit)
- Brent appeared in the movies: Rocky II, The Main Event, The Waterboy, and Mickey, as a play-by-play commentator.(edit)
- Brent: Last year, I thought the Big Ten (Conference) was unfairly put down and very underrated. Interestingly, this year, I happen to think they're a little overrated only because I don't see a marquee team stepping out, like an Illinois last year.(edit)
- Brent: Austin, Texas and Columbus, Ohio are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.(edit)
- Brent: I hate Lou Dobbs with a passion. He is my mortal enemy. If I find him, I will destroy him. He owes me 15 dollars.(edit)
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