Jim Gray (sportscaster)

He is the author of the best seller, "Talking to GOATs, The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard", and the host of the "Let's Go!"

Gray has won 12 National Emmy Awards and has three times been named the Sports Reporter of the Year by the American Sportscasters Association (ASA).

Gray has broken numerous sports stories and has scored exclusive interviews with figures such as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Hank Aaron, Joe DiMaggio, Mike Tyson, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, and many others.

[3] Outside of sports, Gray has interviewed the last ten presidents of the United States, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, G.W.

Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, the first man to walk on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, and the last man on the Moon, Gene Cernan, and the first American to orbit Earth, John Glenn.

Gray started his career as a video tape editor and sports reporter in Denver at KBTV (now KUSA) the ABC affiliate (at the time), from 1977 to 1981.

Gray then moved to NBC Sports, where his assignments included NFL Live, the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, and boxing.

From 1989 to 1994, Gray worked for CBS Sports as a reporter and interviewer for coverage of the NFL, NBA, NCAA, and Major League Baseball.

Gray began his career in boxing broadcasting for the closed circuit telecasts and satellite distribution for Top Rank and Kingvision, beginning in 1978, as a reporter and interviewer.

In 1997, he won a National Emmy Award for individual achievement for his work on the Tyson-Holyfield fight.

In 2000, Gray became the live studio host for NFL Monday Night Football on the Westwood One Radio network as well as for the Super Bowl, and the NCAA Final Four and National Championship.

On Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl, Gray's studio partners for the pregame and halftime have been Mike Ditka (2001–2009), Phil Simms (2004–2008), Don Shula (2006–2009), Larry Fitzgerald (2008–2021), and Tom Brady (2009–2021).

In 2021, Gray, Brady, and Fitzgerald started a one-hour radio show and podcast for SiriusXM titled "Let's Go!

In 2003, Gray returned to ESPN to work on the NBA broadcasts and SportsCenter, as well as hosting a number of primetime interview specials.

He was awarded the Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 1997 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA).

[6] In 1988, Gray was at the stadium and then the airport when Ben Johnson was disqualified for using steroids at the Seoul Olympics.

[3] Gray was the reporter on the air for several major sports events including the Malice at the Palace.

On November 28, 2020, in Los Angeles, Gray was the ringside reporter for the exhibition fight between Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr.

Gray has worked as a producer on the 1984 Olympic Games of Los Angeles on the Official Film, "16 Days of Glory", directed by Bud Greenspan.

[7] Gray broke the news in a live interview on ESPN with Rams running back, and single season rushing record holder, Eric Dickerson, on being traded from the Los Angeles Rams to the Indianapolis Colts on October 31, 1987.

During Game 4 of the 1996 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Gray interviewed Leonard Armato, Shaquille O'Neal's agent, while the game was going on with questions about the future of Shaquille O'Neal and then head coach Brian Hill.

After a series of tough questions, Gray ended the interview by saying to Armato, "Try to enjoy the game now that you've been grilled!"

After repeatedly questioning Rodman about his comments about the Mormon religion when (the Chicago Bulls were in Salt Lake City to play the Jazz during the Finals), Rodman finally had enough of the questions, walked off the interview set with tears in his eyes and removed the microphone without assistance.

On May 7, 2015, Gray interviewed New England Patriots quarterback and 4 time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts regarding Brady's involvement and the Patriots role in Deflategate.

The most notable interview of Gray's sportscasting career occurred with former baseball player Pete Rose.

During Game 2 of the 1999 World Series, Rose was introduced as a member of the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

Are you willing to show contrition, admit that you bet on baseball and make some sort of apology to that effect?

I mean, show it to me... Gray: Well, the Dowd Report says- but we don't want to debate that, Pete.

In the press conference, as a matter of fact, my statement was "I can't wait for my little girl to be a year old so I can apply for reinstatement".

[17] On January 8, 2004, more than four years after the interview, Rose's autobiography My Prison Without Bars was published.