Fans will be missing one key voice of March Madness with Greg Gumbel sitting out the 2024 tournament coverage.
March Madness 2024 won't feel the same.
Long time CBS studio host Greg Gumbel will sit out the 2024 NCAA Tournament due to “family health issues,” according to Richard Deitsch of The Athletic.
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Greg Gumbel, a broadcasting legend who has been involved in NFL telecasts for decades, is staying at CBS but exiting the network’s NFL coverage. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal reports that Gumbel has signed an extension with CBS, but that he will step down as a play-by-play announcer for NFL games.
He said Alabama ‘sidestepped a situation involving criminal activity.’ Greg Gumbel is facing criticism for how he addressed the capital murder charges against former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles during Selection Sunday. Miles was indicted by a Tuscaloosa County grand jury on Friday for the murder of Jamea Jonae Harris on Jan.
It’s often a positive sign for an announcer if viewers hardly notice their presence. That was hardly the case with Gumbel on Sunday.
You’d be hard pressed to name a sport Greg Gumbel hasn’t broadcast. Over a nearly 50 year career this veteran announcer has been behind the mic for major events from the Super Bowl to the Olympics and hosted “The NFL Today” and — for the last quarter century — the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
As sports broadcasters go, few have been around as long as Greg Gumbel. He started in 1973. He’s 75 years old. (I couldn’t believe that.) And so Greg Gumbel knows a thing or two about broadcasting.
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This year's men's NCAA tournament selection committee chair Tom Burnett sat down with Greg Gumbel, Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis on Saturday afternoon to reveal how the committee would seed the top 16 overall teams at this point in time...
What a wild first week of the NCAA Tournament. We had it all! Buzzer beaters, upsets, big time performances and people shredding their brackets all over the country.
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