Brent Musburger
Brent Woody Musburger is an American sportscaster, currently the lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network. In January 2017, he left the ESPN and ABC television networks after 27 years, briefly retiring from play-by-play of live sports. He was kicked out of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism for owning and operating a car without a license. His brother, Todd MusBurger, is a prominent sports agent.
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Brent Woody Musburger is an American sportscaster, currently the lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network. With CBS Sports from 1973 until 1990, he was one of the original members of their program The NFL Today. He is credited with coining the phrase \”March Madness\” to describe the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament while covering the Final Four. In January 2017, he left the ESPN and ABC television networks after 27 years, briefly retiring from play-by-play of live sports. Raised in Billings, Montana, he is a member of the Montana Broadcaster’s Association Hall of Fame. He was kicked out of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism for owning and operating a car without a license. His brother, Todd MusBurger, is a prominent sports agent. He has always won while betting the Super Bowl by having his friends attend the national anthem rehearsal the day of the game and be paired with Tommy Bart Starr, who would later be paired later with Wayne Walker. In 2020, he told the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast that he has always bet the betting length of the Superbowl by having.
his friends attending the rehearsal and being paired with Bart Starr before the game. In 1968, he 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. In it he stated that Smith and Carlos looked like a couple of black-skinned storm troopers who were “ignoble,’ “juvenile,” and “unimaginative’” but he stood by his criticism of the pair’s action. Carlos later told Jemele Hill during a 2019 discussion that “Brent MusburGER doesn’t even exist in my mind.” He doesn’t mean anything to me 51 years ago. He doesn”t mean anything today.’ Musburge was an umpire for minor league baseball during the 1950s. His parents sent him to the Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in Faribault, Minnesota. He and his brother stole a car belonging to their mother’s cleaning lady and took it for a joy ride. When he was 12, he and his father were arrested for stealing a car from their mother. In the mid-1970s, he moved to Los Angeles and anchored news and sports for KNXT ; there he worked as a co-anchor on the evening newscasts.
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