Brent Woody Musburger was born on May 26,1939 and is an American sportscaster, currently the lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network.
35 Facts About Brent Musburger
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Brent Musburger covered the Indianapolis 500, US Open and British Open golf, the World Cup, the Belmont Stakes, and the College Football national championship among other big events.
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Brent Musburger was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Billings, Montana, the son of Beryl Ruth and Cec Brent Musburger.
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Brent Musburger was an umpire for minor league baseball during the 1950s.
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Brent Musburger was a boyhood friend of former Major League pitcher Dave McNally.
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Brent Musburger's brother, Todd Musburger, is a prominent sports agent.
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Brent 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.
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Brent Musburger's parents sent him to the Shattuck-St Mary's School in Faribault, Minnesota.
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Brent Musburger began his career as a sportswriter for the now-defunct Chicago American newspaper, where his editor was the legendary sportswriter Warren Brown.
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In 1968, Brent Musburger penned a column regarding Tommie Smith and John Carlos's protest of racial injustice in the United States with a Black Power salute on the medal stand during the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Brent Musburger didn't mean anything to me 51 years ago.
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In 1968, Brent Musburger began a 22-year association with CBS, first as a sports anchor for WBBM radio and later for WBBM-TV.
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Brent Musburger started out doing regular season National Football League games.
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Brent Musburger was paired with Tommy Mason or Bart Starr, who provided the color commentary.
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Suddenly, Brent Musburger began to cover many assignments for CBS Sports.
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One of the signatures of the program was Brent Musburger's show-opening teases to the various games CBS would cover, along with live images from the various stadiums.
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Brent Musburger made headlines when he got into a fist-fight with The NFL Todays betting analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder in a Manhattan bar on October 27,1980.
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Brent Musburger was the main host and play-by-play announcer for the NBA Finals, college basketball, college football, the Belmont Stakes, and the College World Series.
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Brent Musburger hosted a New Year's Eve countdown for CBS.
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At the time of his firing, Brent Musburger had been set to handle play-by-play duties for CBS's television coverage of Major League Baseball later that month; he was replaced by Jack Buck in that capacity.
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Brent Musburger was the main studio host during ABC's coverage of the 1998 World Cup and the 2006 World Cup, was briefly the studio host for ESPN and ABC's NASCAR coverage and has hosted Tour de France coverage for ABC.
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Brent Musburger called the 2007 Rose Bowl, taking over for the retired Keith Jackson.
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Brent Musburger called games on ESPN during his time at ABC.
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Brent Musburger nevertheless called some games on ESPN and ABC after that time.
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At the 2017 Sugar Bowl, held in early January, Brent Musburger made controversial comments about then-University of Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon.
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Later in the same month, Brent Musburger announced that he would retire from play-by-play broadcasting and would call his final game at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, on January 31,2017.
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Brent Musburger stated he planned to help his family get a sports handicapping business started in Las Vegas, have a sports gambling show on Sirius XM Radio, and enjoy personal travel.
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Brent Musburger serves as managing editor of the network, and hosts its program My Guys in the Desert.
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On July 17,2018, it was reported that Brent Musburger would be making his return to the broadcast booth, this time as the new radio voice for the Oakland Raiders under a three-year contract, succeeding Greg Papa.
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Brent Musburger has a down-to-earth manner of speaking, often addressing his viewers as "folks".
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Brent Musburger was a reporter in Rocky II and had his role immortalized in a 2006 action figure.
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Brent Musburger played the right leg of the fictional monster Scuzzlebutt on an episode of South Park.
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Brent Musburger made cameo appearances in The Main Event and The Waterboy.
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Brent Musburger appeared as himself in the episode "Lying Around" on the ABC sitcom Happy Endings.
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Brent Musburger is portrayed by John Dellaporta in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.