Greg Gumbel
Emmy Award Winning Sports Broadcaster, Host of NFL Today,
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- Greg Gumbel’s standout work in the world of sports broadcasting has made his face, name and voice as familiar as any in the industry. Throughout 40+ years in the business, Gumbel has become one of the most outstanding and best known announcers in sports television. He has covered everything from Major League Baseball to the NBA to the NFL, the Men’s NCAA Championship Tournament, the Summer and Winter Olympic games, World Figure Skating Championships and the Daytona 500 to name a few.
- He called the thrilling action at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston and Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa. He is the first network broadcaster to both call play-by-play and host the Super Bowl. He hosted Super Bowl XXVI in Minneapolis, Super Bowl XXX in Tempe and Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego. He also called the 2007 NFL Pro Bowl in Honolulu.
- When the NFL season winds down, Greg is host of one of the premiere events in all of sports, The NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament. He has been the host of March Madness since 1998. During the height of March Madness, Greg spends hours in the studio with his colleagues, analysts Clark Kellogg, Seth Davis, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley, providing CBS viewers with exciting highlights and coverage on the Road to The Final Four.
- Greg Gumbel is a member of the National Board of Advisors for The March of Dimes and is honored to have become a member of the St. Jude Children’s Hospital Sports Council. He is the 2007 Honoree of the prestigious Pat Summerall award for his outstanding work in broadcasting. The 3-time Emmy award winner is also a member of the Board of Regents at his alma mater, Loras College, in Dubuque, Iowa.
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Greg Gumbel returned to the CBS Sports in January 1998 as host and play-by-play announcer. He has been the host of CBS Sports’ coverage of the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship since his return. He had called play-by-play for college basketball for six years from 1989-94. After hosting The NFL Today for two seasons, Gumbel returned to the booth in 2006 to team with Dan Dierdorf for The NFL on CBS. He teamed for six seasons with analyst Phil Simms to form the CBS Television Network’s lead NFL announce team. Gumbel called CBS’s broadcasts of Super Bowls XXXV and XXXVIII, at the time making him the first and only network broadcaster to call play-by-play for and host a Super Bowl.
Gumbel, who with Terry Bradshaw hosted the most popular NFL pre-game show in television history from 1990 to 1993 on CBS. He returned as host of The NFL Today with analysts Boomer Esiason, Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe for the 2004 and 2005 seasons. Gumbel worked for CBS Sports from October 1989 through May 1994. He hosted The NFL Today, the Network’s NFL pre-game, halftime and post-game studio show (1990-93, 2004-05), including Super Bowl XXVI (1992).
He served as primetime anchor of CBS Sports’ coverage of the 1994 Olympic Winter Games and as co-anchor of the Network’s weekday-morning broadcasts of the 1992 Olympic Winter Games. Gumbel also served as host of the Network’s coverage of “Speedweeks” from Daytona International Speedway in 1999, as well as host/play-by-play announcer for the College World Series (2000-02). His other hosting roles have included regular-season and post-season Major League Baseball and college football broadcasts for CBS Sports. Gumbel had worked for NBC Sports (1994-98) as a host and play-by-play announcer.
He served as host of The NFL on NBC pre-game show and NBC’s Super Bowl pre-game shows in 1996 and 1998. In addition, he served as host of the pre-game show for the 1994 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and as a play-by-play announcer on NBC’s Baseball Night in America regular-season and post-season games. Gumbel also served as a play-by-play announcer for The NBA on NBC. He was the host of the 1995 World Figure Skating Championships and of NBC’s daytime coverage of the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta. While at CBS, Gumbel also provided play-by-play for regular-season college basketball and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, NBA regular-season and playoff games and College World Series championship games.
He worked for the Network on a part-time basis in September 1988 as a play-by-play announcer for NFL games. Gumbel’s pre-CBS experience includes hosting roles for New York Knicks basketball and New York Yankees baseball for the Madison Square Garden Network, as well as three other weekly MSGN programs. He won a local Emmy Award while there. He also has worked for ESPN, WMAQ-TV Chicago, where he won two local Emmys and WFAN Radio in New York City.
Gumbel was the recipient of the 2007 Pat Summerall Award for excellence in sports broadcasting. Gumbel served as a member of the March of Dimes Board for 10 years. After completing the maximum two five-year terms allowed, he has served as a member of the March of Dimes National Board of Advision for the past three years. Gumbel is a member of the St Jude Sports Council, which provides guidance and direction to the mission of St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Gumbel was born May 3, 1946, in New Orleans and grew up in Chicago. He was graduated from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1967 with a degree in English and, most recently, is a member of his alma mater’s Board of Regents. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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