James Clifford Lampley

was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina where he was raised by his mother, who immersed him in sports from a young age. In 1971, he graduated from the University of North Carolina where he majored in English and had his first experience in radio and television sportscasting. Jim went from a college-town radio announcer to one of the most recognizable figures in the country as the first sideline reporter for nationally televised college football on ABC.

From there his career expanded exponentially. Jim Lampley is a Hall of Fame sportscaster with 50 years of on-site experience at numerous live sports events that include college and NFL football, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, inside NBA and MLB locker rooms, Wimbledon, The Ryder Cup, and 14 Olympic Games. Known as the face and voicae of HBO World Championship Boxing, Jim has spent more than 30 years ringside working with the most famous fighters of all time; Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard, and George Foreman and calling boxing’s biggest matches, up to and including the “Billion Dollar Bout” between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, which had the largest gross income in the history of Pay-Per-View sports.

Lampley won the Sam Taub Award in 1992 for excellence in boxing broadcasting, won three Emmy Awards for boxing programming, headlined HBO’s, ‘The Fight Game With Jim Lampley’ for seven seasons, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015. Jim currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife Debra where he loves spending time with his children, stepchildren, and grandchildren.