Pat Summerall

NASCAR levies stiff penalties against Keselowski, Logano teams

2013-04-17 10:56:00

NASCAR on Wednesday levied stiff fines against the teams of reigning Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski and teammate Joey Logano because their cars were found to have unapproved suspension systems before Saturday's race at Texas Motor Speedway....

Mayweather confirms his father will replace uncle as trainer

2013-04-17 07:17:00

� The question of the day to Floyd Mayweather Jr. was: Who is his main trainer? “Why put a label on it?” Mayweather Jr. advisor Leonard Ellerbe asked. “I’m not assistant anything,” Mayweather Jr.’s uncle and...

Kings-Ducks at Dodger Stadium among six outdoor games next season

2013-04-16 18:31:00

Can there be too much of a good thing? The NHL recently�announced that the Toronto Maple Leafs will face the Detroit Red Wings�at Michigan Stadium on Jan. 1, 2014�in the resumption of the Winter Classic outdoor series, and it was reported here that...

R.I.P. Pat Summerall, straight man to John Madden in NFL booth

2013-04-16 18:44:00

With the death of Pat Summerall, sports broadcasting lost one of its great straight men. Summerall, who died Tuesday at age 82, played a decade in the NFL during the 1950s. But he was best known for his pairing with John Madden on TV, where the two...

Pat Summerall dies at 82; NFL broadcaster teamed with John Madden

2013-04-16 17:54:00

Pat Summerall, who was half of one of the best known announcing teams in television sportscasting history as John Madden's broadcasting partner for more than two decades of NFL games, has died. He was 82. Summerall, who lived in Southlake, Texas, died...

It takes sweat and a lot of practice to broadcast the Super Bowl

2013-02-02 00:00:00

NEW ORLEANS — Lance Barrow doesn't leave anything to chance. Striding out onto the field of a dimly lighted, virtually empty Superdome just days before Super Bowl XLVII kicks off, the husky Texas native explains why CBS needs five times as many...

Golf Channel to air special on legendary producer and director on Friday

2011-05-05 16:33:34

Sports Legend Revealed: Did Vince Lombardi trade a player five minutes after learning the player hired an agent?

2011-02-08 16:33:08

Star-News, Wilmington, N.C., Chuck Carree column

2013-04-24 11:44:02

Thirty-five years ago, following an illustrious 16-year playing career, Roman Gabriel joined CBS as an NFL analyst and learned the trade from Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier -- the network's lead broadcast team. Although never telecast partners, they...

CBS Sports Network's Dave Ryan enjoys the Patriot League and lacrosse

2013-04-23 19:44:00

Dave Ryan has done just about everything there is to do as a radio and television broadcaster over the past three decades, everything from professional bowling to the Little League World Series and from major league baseball to the NFL, NHL and NCAA...

Credit O'Leary for UCF's successful NCAA appeal

2013-04-19 18:11:24

Running off at the typewriter … Let's give it up for UCF football coach George O'Leary, who recorded his biggest victory four months after last football season ended. UCF won its NCAA appeal on Friday to have its postseason ban overturned and will...

'Madden,' concussions and the looming NFL player safety issue

2012-05-10 12:32:00

UPDATE: I just received an email response from Cam Weber, GM of American Football for EA Sports. He writes: “In order to depict the seriousness of concussions, when a player is injured in a Madden NFL game, they will be tended to by the medical...

Why: Pat Summerall, the football player turned legendary play-by-play announcer, died Tuesday. He was 82. He was best known as a broadcaster for teaming with former NFL coach John Madden for 22 years.

1996-12-10 00:00:00

Known for his deep, resonant voice, Pat Summerall was half of one of the best known announcing teams in television sportscasting history as John Madden's broadcasting partner for more than two decades of NFL games. He was 82.

1994-04-10 00:00:00