Brad Nessler

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Brad Nessler (born June 3, 1956) is an American sportscaster who currently calls college basketball games for ESPN and college football games for ABC Sports. He has worked for ESPN since 1992 and started adding ABC assignments in 1997. From 2002-04, Nessler was a broadcaster for the NBA, including calling the 2003 NBA Finals.

Nessler is part of the lead college basketball crew for Saturday Primetime with color analysis by Dick Vitale and court side reports from Erin Andrews. Also for ESPN, Nessler does SEC games on Super Tuesday and Throwdown Thursday, both along side Jimmy Dykes in primetime. He is also the play-by-play voice for the EA Sports video game NCAA Football 06

He began his professional broadcasting career sharing play-by-play radio duties with Al Ciraldo on Georgia Tech basketball on WGST-AM from 1980-81 through 1984-85, and handled the play-by-play for the Atlanta Falcons from 1982 to 1988 on WGST and WSB-AM before assuming the same position for the Minnesota Vikings during the 1988 and 1989 seasons. He has done play-by-play of ACC football and basketball for Jefferson Pilot telecasts. In 1990 and 1991, Nessler worked for CBS Sports, calling NFL games, college football, and Division 1 college basketball (Both men's and women's college basketball). [1] For ESPN, he has called college basketball games and Thursday night football games from 1992-1997. In 1997, he went to ABC Sports for college football, including the Bowl Championship Series games.

In 2006, he will team with Paul Maguire, Bob Griese, and Bonnie Bernstein on ABC's college football telecasts. On September 11, 2006, ESPN began its coverage of Monday Night Football with a week 1 doubleheader. Nessler teamed with Ron Jaworski, Dick Vermeil, and Bonnie Bernstein to call the San Diego Chargers-Oakland Raiders game which was the second game of that Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN.

Nessler is a graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato and as of September 2006 serves on the board of directors for the university's alumni association. [2]

Preceded by: Marv Albert	Play-by-Play announcer, NBA Finals 2003	Succeeded by: Al Michaels
Preceded by: incumbent	Play-by-Play announcer, Saturday Primetime 2005-2006	Succeeded by: Dan Shulman