{"id":115485,"date":"2017-02-01T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115485"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:20:54","slug":"musburger-calls-last-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115485","title":{"rendered":"Musburger calls last game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) \u2014 On his final night as a play-by-play man, Brent Musburger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/video\/clip?id=18595851\">mused to the camera<\/a> &#8220;what a road we&#8217;ve traveled together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 77-year-old ESPN announcer capped a nearly 50-year career in sports media by calling No. 8 Kentucky&#8217;s 90-81 overtime win over Georgia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Musburger rose to prominence in the 1970s as the host of CBS&#8217; &#8220;The NFL Today,&#8221; which he kicked off each week with his signature catchphrase, &#8220;You are looking live &#8230; .&#8221; Musburger moved to ABC Sports in 1990 and later worked on ESPN, where he became the network&#8217;s top college football announcer.<\/p>\n<p>Musburger plans to help his family launch a sports handicapping business. He invited viewers to visit him in Las Vegas, saying, &#8220;we could share a cold one and maybe a win or two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) \u2014 On his final night as a play-by-play man, Brent Musburger mused to the camera &#8220;what a road we&#8217;ve traveled together.&#8221; The 77-year-old ESPN announcer capped a nearly 50-year career in sports media by calling No. 8 Kentucky&#8217;s 90-81 overtime win over Georgia on Tuesday. Musburger rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115486,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115485\/revisions\/115486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}