James Lampley (born April 8, 1949) is an American sportscaster, news anchor, film producer, and restaurant owner.

[2] In 1971, he graduated from the University of North Carolina where he majored in English and earned a master’s degree from UNC’s Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures.

Lampley moved to play-by-play duties for NBC's NFL telecasts the following year and was later replaced by Greg Gumbel.

While with NFL on NBC, he was slated to join Jim Laslavic as the #8 announcing team in 1997 during Week 9's Tennessee Oilers-Arizona Cardinals game; however, he was not placed in the lineup at all.

As blow by blow announcer, he called some of boxing's most famous moments, such as Thunder Meets Lightning, when Julio César Chávez saved himself from a decision defeat by knocking out Meldrick Taylor (who was leading the fight on two of the three official scorecards) with only two seconds to go in the last round, and James "Buster" Douglas's upset of Mike Tyson for the world heavyweight championship.

Lampley was the first program host on New York's sports talk radio station WFAN when it began operation on July 1, 1987.

[5] For his participation in the Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel HBO series, Lampley earned three Emmy awards.

The company, now known as Atticus Entertainment was executive producer of the HBO documentary series, On Freddie Roach in 2012–13.

He also appeared in the 2007 sports comedy films Blades of Glory starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, and Balls of Fury, with Christopher Walken.

Lampley also appeared on television in shows such as Everybody Hates Chris, MacGyver, the Andy Samberg HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell, and Eastbound & Down.

[12] He later pleaded no contest to violating a restraining order and was sentenced to three years of probation, plus required to complete a 52-week domestic violence counseling program.