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It Happened!

By Jim Lampley

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Jim Lampleyโ€™s story is a 50-year travelog of an unlikely career that catalogs the evolution of sports televisionโ€”from his emergence as the first sideline reporter, through hosting and covering 14 Olympics, to working with all major sports networks.

ISBN: 9781637746448

ISBN: 9781637746431

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AVAILABLE APRIL 2025

From Jim Lampley, HBOโ€™s ringside face and voice of boxing, comes a first-person, blow-by-blow account of the evolution of sports television chock full of famous names, history-making events, and never-before-told stories from the world of sports.

Jim Lampleyโ€™s story is a 50-year travelog of an unlikely career that catalogs the evolution of sports televisionโ€”from his emergence as the first sideline reporter, through hosting and covering 14 Olympics, to working with all major sports networks.

It Happened!ย charts Jimโ€™s notable career, with highlights including:

  • Becoming the first live reporter on the sideline of a nationally televised college football game
  • Following in the footsteps of Jim McKay as host on ABCโ€™s Wide World of Sports and Howard Cosell as halftime host for ABCโ€™s Monday Night Football
  • Partnering with ABC, CBS, NBC, Turner, and HBO
  • Ascending to host of HBOโ€™s Wimbledon weekday telecasts
  • Reaching โ€œiconโ€ status as the 30-year face and voice of HBO World Championship Boxing

Learn how Jimโ€™s brilliance as an announcer and his revolutionary nature led to innovations in sportscasting, three sports Emmys, and induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Personal anecdotes and hard-earned lessons combine as Jim digs deep and shares celebrity stories from the upper echelons of superstar athletes and Hollywood hotshots, but also offers an introspective look at his personal life and trials.ย It Happened!ย tells it all.

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About the Author

Jim  Lampley

Jim Lampleyย is a Hall of Fame sportscaster with 50 years of on-site experience at numerous live sports events that include college and NFL football and ABCโ€™s Wide World of Sports, inside NBA and MLB locker rooms, Wimbledon, Ryder Cup PGA Golf, and 14 Olympics. For 30 years, he was the face and voice of HBO World Championship boxing, including anecdotes and interactions with the most famous fighters of his era (Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard and George Foreman) and the biggest boxing matches up to and including the โ€œBillion Dollar Boutโ€ between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, which had the largest gross income in the history of pay-per-view sports.

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Format: E-book (mobi)

ISBN: 9781637746448

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 9781637746431

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