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It Happened!: A Uniquely Lucky Life in Sports Television
From HBO's ringside face and voice of boxing, comes a first-person, blow-by-blow account of the evolution of...
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From HBO's ringside face and voice of boxing, comes a first-person, blow-by-blow account of the evolution of sports television chock full of famous names, history-making events, and never-before-told stories from the world of sports. Jim Lampley's story is a 50-year travelog of an unlikely career that catalogs the evolution of sports television--from his emergence as the first sideline reporter, through hosting and covering 14 Olympics, to working with all major sports networks. It Happened! charts Jim's notable career, with highlights including:
Author: Jim Lampley,Art Chansky
Publisher: Matt Holt Books
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781637746431
About the Author
Jim Lampley is a Hall of Fame sportscaster with 50 years of on-site experience at numerous live sports events that include college and NFL football and ABC's Wide World of Sports, inside NBA and MLB locker rooms, Wimbledon, Ryder Cup PGA Golf, and 14 Olympics. For 30 years, he was the face and voice of HBO World Championship boxing, including anecdotes and interactions with the most famous fighters of his era (Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard and George Foreman) and the biggest boxing matches up to and including the "Billion Dollar Bout" between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, which had the largest gross income in the history of pay-per-view sports. Art Chansky is the author of ten sports books, including best-sellers The Dean's List, Blue Blood, and Game Changers. Chansky was the ghost writer for The Kid Who Couldn't Dunk, the inspirational children's book by former All-American point guard Phil Ford. He has written hundreds of columns and feature stories for newspapers and websites in Atlanta, Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina.
- Becoming the first live reporter on the sideline of a nationally televised college football game Following in the footsteps of Jim McKay as host on ABC's Wide World of Sports and Howard Cosell as halftime host for ABC's Monday Night Football Partnering with ABC, CBS, NBC, Turner, and HBO Ascending to host of HBO's Wimbledon weekday telecasts Reaching "icon" status as the 30-year face and voice of HBO World Championship Boxing
Author: Jim Lampley,Art Chansky
Publisher: Matt Holt Books
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781637746431
About the Author
Jim Lampley is a Hall of Fame sportscaster with 50 years of on-site experience at numerous live sports events that include college and NFL football and ABC's Wide World of Sports, inside NBA and MLB locker rooms, Wimbledon, Ryder Cup PGA Golf, and 14 Olympics. For 30 years, he was the face and voice of HBO World Championship boxing, including anecdotes and interactions with the most famous fighters of his era (Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard and George Foreman) and the biggest boxing matches up to and including the "Billion Dollar Bout" between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, which had the largest gross income in the history of pay-per-view sports. Art Chansky is the author of ten sports books, including best-sellers The Dean's List, Blue Blood, and Game Changers. Chansky was the ghost writer for The Kid Who Couldn't Dunk, the inspirational children's book by former All-American point guard Phil Ford. He has written hundreds of columns and feature stories for newspapers and websites in Atlanta, Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina.
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