During one 63-day period in early 2007, Jim Nantz made sports television history, becoming the first broadcaster to call the Super Bowl, college basketball's Final Four, and the Masters. For Nantz, though, this unprecedented achievement had a bittersweet tinge. His beloved father, with whom he shared so much, had slipped into the clutches of Alzheimer's. Always by My Side thus serves as both a son's memoir of hard-fought victories and a valedictory tribute to a father and mentor now mostly beyond reach.
During one 63-day period in early 2007, Jim Nantz made sports television history, becoming the first broadcaster to call the Super Bowl, college basketball's Final Four, and the Masters. For Nantz, though, this unprecedented achievement had a bittersweet tinge. His beloved father, with whom he shared so much, had slipped into the clutches of Alzheimer's. Always by My Side thus serves as both a son's memoir of hard-fought victories and a valedictory tribute to a father and mentor now mostly beyond reach.