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Jim Simpson (sportscaster)

Index Jim Simpson (sportscaster)

James Shores Simpson (December 20, 1927 – January 13, 2016) was an American sportscaster, known for his smooth delivery as a play-by-play man and his versatility in covering many different sports. [1]

59 relations: American Football Conference, American Football League, Anthology series, Asia, Atlantic Coast Conference, Baltimore Orioles, Basketball, Bill Cullen, CBS Evening News, College Basketball on NBC, College World Series, Color commentator, Color television, Curt Gowdy, Dick Vitale, ESPN, ESPN Classic, ESPN College Football, George Ratterman, George Washington University, Golf Channel on NBC, Harvard–Yale football rivalry, Hockey Night in Canada, Instant replay, John F. Kennedy, Lindsey Nelson, List of NFL on NBC commentator pairings, Major League Baseball on NBC, National Sports Media Association, NBA on ESPN, NBC Sports, New Haven, Connecticut, NFL on NBC, NFL on NBC Radio, NHL on NBC, Orange Bowl, Saint Croix, Scottsdale, Arizona, Sports commentator, Sports Lifetime Achievement Award, Super Bowl I, Tennis on NBC, United States Football League on television, Virgin Islands, Walter Cronkite, Washington, D.C., WMAR-TV, World Series, WRC-TV, WUSA (TV), ..., Yale Bowl, 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, 1966 Stanley Cup Finals, 1979 in television, 1979 NFL season, 1988 Baltimore Orioles season, 1997 in sports, 2000 in sports, 2005 in television. Expand index (9 more) »

American Football Conference

The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States.

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American Football League

The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1969, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL).

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Anthology series

An anthology series is a radio, television or book series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode or season/series.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States of America in which its fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I, with its football teams competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest levels for athletic competition in US-based collegiate sports.

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Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Bill Cullen

William Lawrence Francis Cullen (February 18, 1920 – July 7, 1990) was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades.

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CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News (titled as CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor for its weeknight broadcasts since December 4, 2017 and simply CBS Weekend News for its weekend broadcasts) is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States.

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College Basketball on NBC

College Basketball on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I men's college basketball games formerly produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States.

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College World Series

The College World Series (CWS) is an annual June baseball tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Color commentator

A color commentator or expert commentator is a sports commentator who assists the main commentator, often by filling in any time when play is not in progress.

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Color television

Color/Colour television is a television transmission technology that includes information on the color of the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.

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Curt Gowdy

Curtis Edward Gowdy (July 31, 1919 – February 20, 2006) was an American sportscaster, well known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox and for his coverage of many nationally televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports and ABC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Dick Vitale

Richard John Vitale (born June 9, 1939), also known as "Dickie V", is an American basketball sportscaster.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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ESPN Classic

ESPN Classic is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns 20%).

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ESPN College Football

ESPN College Football is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football across ESPN properties, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ABC, ESPN Classic, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPNews and ESPN Radio.

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George Ratterman

George William Ratterman (November 12, 1926 – November 3, 2007) was an American football player in the All-America Football Conference and the National Football League.

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George Washington University

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Golf Channel on NBC

Golf Channel on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of golf tournaments produced by NBC Sports in conjunction with Golf Channel, on the NBC television network in the United States.

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Harvard–Yale football rivalry

The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football contest between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University.

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Hockey Night in Canada

Hockey Night in Canada (often abbreviated Hockey Night or HNIC) is a branding used for Canadian television presentations of the National Hockey League.

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Instant replay

Instant replay is a video reproduction of something that recently occurred which was both shot and broadcast live.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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Lindsey Nelson

Lindsey Nelson (May 25, 1919 – June 10, 1995) was an American sportscaster best known for his long career calling play-by-play of college football and New York Mets baseball.

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List of NFL on NBC commentator pairings

The first name that's slated is the play-by-play man while the color commentator or commentators are slated second and sideline reporters, if used, are slated last.

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Major League Baseball on NBC

Major League Baseball on NBC is the de facto branding for weekly broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network.

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National Sports Media Association

The National Sports Media Association (NSMA), formerly the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, is an organization of sports media members in the United States, and constitutes the American chapter of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS).

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NBA on ESPN

The NBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games on the ESPN family of networks.

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NBC Sports

NBC Sports is the programming division of the American broadcast network NBC, owned by the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal, that is responsible for sports broadcasts on the network, and its dedicated national sports cable channels.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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NFL on NBC

The NFL on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network in the United States.

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NFL on NBC Radio

From 1985–1986, the NBC Radio Network was the official, national radio provider for National Football League games.

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NHL on NBC

The NHL on NBC is a presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on NBC and NBCSN in the United States.

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Orange Bowl

The Orange Bowl, officially the Capital One Orange Bowl for sponsorship purposes, is an annual American college football bowl game played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.

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Saint Croix

Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale (Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, part of the Greater Phoenix Area.

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Sports commentator

In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer, sportscaster or play-by-play announcer) gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense.

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Sports Lifetime Achievement Award

The Sports Lifetime Achievement Award is a special award given away each year at the Sports Emmy Awards.

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Super Bowl I

The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl, was played on Sunday, January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.

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Tennis on NBC

Tennis on NBC is the de facto branding used for broadcasts of major professional tennis tournaments that are produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States.

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United States Football League on television

On May 24, 1982, the United States Football League (USFL) reached an agreement with ABC and ESPN on television rights.

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Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, and form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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WMAR-TV

WMAR-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 38), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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World Series

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in North America, contested since 1903 between the American League (AL) champion team and the National League (NL) champion team.

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WRC-TV

WRC-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 48), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to the American capital city of Washington, District of Columbia.

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WUSA (TV)

WUSA, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to the American capital city of Washington, District of Columbia.

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Yale Bowl

The Yale Bowl is a college football stadium in the northeast United States, located in New Haven, Connecticut, on the border of West Haven, about 1½ miles (2½ km) west of the main campus of Yale University.

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1966 FIFA World Cup Final

The 1966 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth football World Cup.

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1966 Stanley Cup Finals

The 1966 Stanley Cup Finals was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the defending champion Montreal Canadiens.

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1979 in television

For 1979 in television, see.

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1979 NFL season

The 1979 NFL season was the 60th regular season of the National Football League.

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1988 Baltimore Orioles season

The 1988 Baltimore Orioles had the worst start to a season in American baseball history.

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1997 in sports

1997 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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2000 in sports

2000 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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2005 in television

2005 in television may refer to.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simpson_(sportscaster)

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