Courtney Richards is a former Vice President at IMG in sports management and the wife of the exemplary journalist, Jim Nantz. Jim has always described Courtney as his biggest supporter and backbone.
On June 9, 2012, Jim Nantz married Courtney Richards in a ceremony at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California.
Nantz met Courtney during his book tour. Courtney worked in sports marketing at the talent management company IMG.
He proposed in September 2010 while on vacation with former President George H.W. Bush, who once called Jim ”one of the nicest and most generous people we know.”
On March 14, 2014, Jim and Courtney welcomed a girl named – Finley Cathleen. On February 1, 2016, their son Jameson Nantz was born.
James William Nantz III is an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the National Football League (NFL), NCAA Division I men’s basketball, the NBA and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1980s.
Nantz joined CBS Sports in 1985, initially working as a studio host for the network’s college football and basketball coverage, and as an on-course reporter for PGA Tour golf, as well as calling NFL games on Westwood One
He has anchored CBS’s coverage of the Masters Tournament since 1989 and has been the lead play-by-play announcer on CBS’s NFL coverage since 2004.
Nantz is also one of two men to host a Super Bowl, announce an NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game, and host coverage of The Masters from Butler Cabin with Brent Musburger being the other.
During Super Bowl XLVII, Joe Flacco unknowingly hit Nantz with the Vince Lombardi Trophy during the presentation, but Nantz simply brushed it off.
Nantz and broadcast partner Phil Simms called Thursday Night Football games in a deal with CBS and the NFL Network. Tracy Wolfson was the sideline reporter for the Thursday games along with the Sunday games on CBS.