Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 26, 1990 TAG: 9005260197
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Musburger "When I'm watching tapes of a game I did, there are many times when I get tired of the sound of my own voice," Musburger says in an interview in the June 1 issue of Entertainment Weekly.
"I turn the sound off or just shut the damn thing off and walk away."
Musburger, for years the sports anchor at CBS, was fired by the network the day before he called the NCAA basketball final, his last event at CBS. He signed a month later with ABC, where his first assignment will be the Little League World Series.
"I don't care what you put me on," he says in the interview. "I've done more schlock sports than anybody. I've done the Human Fly, a guy walking on airplanes."
Musburger also acknowledges that he may hype events he covers.
"If I'm not going to be enthusiastic about it, who's going to be?" he asks.
by CNB