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OHSportsFan
Fan of Ohio Sports in Indy
I miss that National Championship feeling.
Soaking in all the coverage and highlights and interviews for the next week. Seeing the apparel you will spend way too much on.
Anymore, I’ve either barely cared/watched football title games or it’s a quick shutoff for basketball.
Soaking in all the coverage and highlights and interviews for the next week. Seeing the apparel you will spend way too much on.
Anymore, I’ve either barely cared/watched football title games or it’s a quick shutoff for basketball.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Jim Nantz's dream 32-year Final Four run wraps as iconic voice of March Madness soaks in final moments
Nantz became a legend because of his start in college basketball and his 36-year connection to the NCAA Tournamentwww.cbssports.com
Jim Nantz's dream 32-year Final Four run wraps as iconic voice of March Madness soaks in final moments
Nantz became a legend because of his start in college basketball and his 36-year connection to the NCAA Tournament
In early January 1986, a 26-year-old with joyful ambition and bottomless optimism took a flight out to Seattle to call a men's basketball game.
It wound up being the formal initiation of a legendary broadcasting career.
Jim Nantz's first play-by-play assignment for CBS was a USC-Washington affair on January 11 of that year, working the game alongside former Kentucky standout Larry Conley.
One week later: a proper introduction to a lifelong friendship. Nantz catty-cornered to Coral Gables, Florida, to call Arizona at Miami. As fate would have it, he was partnered with the one and only Bill Raftery. An eager-to-please Nantz got taken out to an extravagant Miami Beach dinner, and as is Raftery's wont, young Jim got more than he bargained for that night.
"You walk out of one dinner with Raft and you feel like you've known him for 37 years, which is the actual case now," Nantz told CBS Sports in his final sit-down interview before his final basketball call after 37 years and 354 NCAA Tournament broadcasts.
On Monday night, Nantz will toss on the headset for one final basketball call next to Raftery, working CBS' broadcast with Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson. It's No. 4 UConn vs. No. 5 San Diego State — a national title game almost nobody saw coming as recently as two weeks ago.
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CT governor, Houston mayor bicker after Final 4
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner have traded barbs after Lamont took a shot at the Texas city following the conclusion of the NCAA tournament's Final Four earlier this week.
Connecticut governor, Houston mayor bicker after Final Four
Connecticut's governor took a shot at the city of Houston following the NCAA tournament's Final Four, which was held in that city last weekend.
Gov. Ned Lamont, who traveled to Houston and was on hand Monday night to watch the University of Connecticut men's basketball team win its fifth NCAA tournament championship, talked about his visit earlier this week on WPLR-FM's "Chaz and AJ" show.
"After winning the semifinals, you walk around downtown Houston, which is butt-ugly," the Democrat said. "Not much there."
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, also a Democrat, responded that he did not appreciate the governor "throwing shade" at his city after it went to the trouble to "feed you, dine you, host you, house you."
"And you're going to go back and talk about 'butt-ugly?' Which end was he looking from?" Turner said on KHOU-TV.
Lamont made an apology of sorts Thursday after being asked about his comments during an unrelated news event..
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"He said: 'Maybe the governor's looking at the wrong end of a beautiful horse,' " Lamont said. "I guess I resemble that comment. I want to say more importantly that nothing compares to the beauty of that amazing basketball championship on Monday night."
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