Brent Musburger to Retire at Month's End

In 1990, when Brent Musburger was at the peak of his broadcasting career, a most wonderful thing happened to him: He got fired. There are indeed second acts in American life, and no one appreciated his more than Musburger, 77, who on Tuesday announced his retirement.

Musburger’s career spans six decades, from his start in print at the now-defunct newspaper in the mid-1960s to calling Monday night’s college basketball upset of No. 2 Kentucky by Tennessee on ESPN. The Montana native has done play-by-play for the NBA Finals, for the NCAA Final Four—he is credited with introducing the term “March Madness” on TV—and for college football national championship games. He was the first host of the original NFL pregame show, , on CBS and he is