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Name: Jimmy Roberts  
   
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Date of Birth: 6th April 1924
   
Place of Birth: Madisonville, Kentucky, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Jimmy Roberts (born in 1956 or 1957) is a sportscaster for NBC. Roberts joined NBC in May 2000 after serving as a sports reporter for almost 12 years at ESPN, where he won 12 Sports Emmy Awards. Roberts has worked 10 Olympic Games in his broadcasting career. At the Olympics for NBC, he hosts a nightly feature called the "Chevy Olympic Moments", which talk about a different athlete or the history of a certain place at an Olympics.

Roberts is also the interviewer for NBC's golf coverage, in addition to hosting the halftime show for Notre Dame football, being one of the main anchors for NBC's weekend sports updates, and anchoring the network's coverage of the Wimbledon Championships. Roberts has won one Emmy since joining NBC. His journalism career began in 1975 when he started as a newspaper reporter. Roberts also worked under Howard Cosell as a writer and producer at ABC.

He jokes that he attended the Miracle on Ice ice hockey game between the United States and Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, but left early when the girl he had been chasing didn't show up as a way to poke fun at his sports instincts to say that he left early before something big happened.

Roberts and his wife have three sons, and they all live in Westchester County, New York. His writing is regarded as some of the best in all of broadcast journalism. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Roberts hosted and narrated the Outdoor Life Network's coverage of the 2005 Dakar Rally.

Roberts' sister-in-law, Debbie Mayer, worked in the south tower on the 56th floor at New York City's World Trade Center. When an airplane struck the north tower on September 11, 2001, signaling the beginning of the terrorist attacks that shook the world on that the day, Mayer immediately began going downstairs to leave her tower, and she had gotten to the 29th floor when a second airplane struck, hitting the building she worked in. Thankfully, Mayer escaped before both towers collapsed.

Roberts told of the ordeal to USA Today:

"We had a couple of very anxious hours. My wife couldn't get through to Debbie. Finally, she went to her Manhattan apartment to wait for her. And she found her there. Turns out when the first explosion occurred in Building 1, Debbie started down the stairs. She had made it to the 29th floor when the building was shaken when the second plane hit. She was terrified but made it out."

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