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Jim Lampley is one of the iconic voices of Sports, You name it he has done it, whether it be  college football , Major League Baseball ,college basketball the USFL, Nascar,Wimbledon,The Super bowl ,five Olympics, as well as the program Wide World of Sports.He was the first program host on New York's sports talk radio station WFAN when it began operation on July 1, 1987. He was the voice of HBO boxing for over 3 decades,where he called some of the biggest fights in the history of the sport.  From the biggest upset in heavyweight championship history (Mike Tyson vs. Buster Douglas in 1990), to the stirring trilogies between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe and Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward, to the remarkable triumph of 45-year-old George Foreman over Michael Moorer in 1994, to the long-awaited showdown between Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson in 2002, to the prolific confrontation between Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather in 2007, he is a 3 time emmy winner, a member of the international boxing hall of fame and