{"id":204,"date":"2010-07-21T12:28:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveltattler.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-10-14T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T23:03:46","slug":"jim-nantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/library\/204\/jim-nantz","title":{"rendered":"Jim Nantz"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

I\u2019ll be spending time with CBS TV Sportscaster Jim Nantz when he comes to Detroit in a week or so to broadcast the NCAA Final Four games at Ford Field.<\/p>\n

Nantz is the voice you hear describing the college basketball games, National Football League games and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports. He\u2019s called the action from the Olympic Games and, in addition, has hosted the CBS Early Show and the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In fact, in his New York Times<\/em> bestselling book \u201cJim Nantz \u2013 Always by my Side,\u201d<\/span> he recounts anchoring the Super Bowl, Final Four and Masters Tournament in a span of just over two months!<\/p>\n

I had developed an acquaintance with Nantz over the years through a mutual friend Ben Wright, the Emmy Award-winning English golf announcer who was part of the CBS golf broadcast team for over 20 years. Wright and Nantz were colleagues and friends. Nantz is on record as calling Wright \u201cthe greatest golf announcer of our time.\u201d Wright and I have written two books together, including his autobiography \u201cGood Bounces and Bad Lies,\u201d <\/span>which the Los Angeles Times <\/em>wrote was \u201cmaybe the best sports book ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

So though Ben I first met Nantz at the Masters Tournament and, over the yeas, I have written magazine articles about him or have dropped in to see him at the CBS broadcast tower when he covered Michigan events like the Buick Open or the Ford Senior Players Championship.<\/p>\n

One winter Sunday afternoon in Michigan I was watching the Nantz and his co-horts David Feherty, Gary McCord, and Nick Faldo provide commentary on the CBS broadcast of the Los Angeles Open while I caught up on some work. I was a week away from my honeymoon to Hawaii with my new wife, Dr. Christine Tenaglia, when I remembered that Nantz spent a couple of weeks each summer at Wailea on Maui. I figured I\u2019d send Jim an email asking if he had any travel tips or advice about Hawaii and, in particular, Maui. I\u2019d expected that in a few days, maybe Tuesday, I\u2019d get a response.<\/p>\n

But right in the middle of the CBS telecast, as Nantz and the others were calling the action at Rivera Country Club, I got an email response from Jim! It was two paragraphs of ideas and places he likes to visit on Maui: the Four Seasons and a restaurant called Sarento\u2019s on the Beach! Knowing what I know about how complicated anchoring a golf broadcast is \u2013 with announcers and cameras at various locations as players hit shots and putts all across the final nine holes \u2013 it was astonishing that Jim would be reading and responding to his email during the show and flattering that he\u2019d choose to write back so quickly.<\/p>\n

I printed the emailed information and settled back into my work. The golf telecast, and the thought that I\u2019d be in Hawaii in a week made seeing the falling snow outside my window bearable. About 20 minutes later, I heard Nantz reading a promotional announcement looking ahead to the PGA Tour events being contested the following week.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext week on the PGA Tour,\u201d he said as a graphic with the tournaments and locations appeared on the screen, \u201cthe World Golf Championships Accenure Match Play Championship at The Gallery at Dove Mountain, in Malara, Arizona; and the Champions Tour Skins game will be held at Kaanapali Golf Club, on Maui\u2026And<\/em> there\u2019ll be some other action going on in Hawaii, as well\u2026\u201d <\/em>
\nI nearly fell off of my chair!<\/p>\n

Nantz was making a sly, double-entendre reference to my Hawaiian honeymoon right there on CBS!<\/p>\n

A few months later, when Jim was coming to Detroit for the PGA Championship, he phoned-in as a guest on my radio show. I told the story, on the air, of how Jim had responded to my email with travel tips right in the middle of the broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, what are friends for?\u201d he asked in response.<\/p>\n

Then I told my radio listeners about his cheeky \u201caction in Hawaii\u201d comment.<\/p>\n

Jim started laughing. \u201cYep, that was for you,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope you didn\u2019t take offense! I just wanted you to know I was thinking about you!\u201d<\/p>\n

So when you\u2019re watching a live broadcast, remember, there might be more going on than meets the ear!<\/p>\n

March 25, 2009<\/strong>
\n“Jim Nantz”
\n<\/strong>Originally printed in the Talk of the North<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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