Verne Lundquist

Verne Lundquist

Lundquist returned to CBS Sports as a play-by-play announcer for coverage of the NFL in 1998. He previously worked for the Network from 1982 to 1995. He will be the lead announcer for CBS Sports' coverage of college football.

Lundquist's credits at CBS Sports include play-by-play for figure skating at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Winter Games, the NFL, the NBA, college basketball, including the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, The Masters® and several additional golf events. He worked regularly with Terry Bradshaw and Dan Fouts, and occasionally with lead analyst John Madden, on the network's NFL broadcasts. He spent eight years at ABC Sports and the last three years as a play-by-play announcer for TNT's NFL, NBA, golf and figure skating coverage.

Well known in Texas as the long-time radio voice of the Dallas Cowboys (1972-84), he was sports director at WFAA-TV Dallas for 16 years and won seven consecutive Texas Sportscaster of the Year Awards (1977-83).

Lundquist was born July 17, 1940, in Duluth, Minn. He grew up in Texas and received his sociology degree from Texas Lutheran College in 1963. He lives in Steamboat Springs, Colo., with his wife, Nancy.