Clubhouse Chatter: Who is the best TV sports announcer ever?

What our Sports staff has to say while waiting for the games to resume.

While watching the Ryne Sandberg game - Cubs vs. Cardinals in 1984 - I became a Bob Costas fan. And even though I grew up watching Jim McKay on the Olympics, my love for the event deepened once Costas became the main host. I'll never forget meeting him after a Mizzou basketball game in the late 1980s.

- Kevin Schmit

I grew up watching the late Jim McKay. He covered everything from the Kentucky Derby to the Olympics to the Indianapolis 500. He was perhaps best known as the host of ABC's "Wide World of Sports." Not a week goes by in this job when I don't think of McKay's famous line from the opening sequence: "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." It is the essence of sports boiled down into one simple phrase.

- Jerry Fitzpatrick

Brent Musburger. First of all, he's an alum of the Northwestern Medill School of Journalism. Go Cats! But mostly, it's the vastness of his career. Musburger became a prominent voice in the late 1960s and is still going strong at age 80 ... and he has covered pretty much every major sporting event there is: from the NFL to the NBA to Major League Baseball to the Indy 500 to major tennis and golf tournaments to horse racing to college football and March Madness. Musburger has done it all, and done it all well. When you hear his voice on a broadcast, you know you're watching a big event.

- Patricia Babcock McGraw

Lloyd Pettit. He started broadcasting Blackhawks games in 1961 (a Stanley Cup-winning year) and was with the team 14 years. He brought home games to life on radio and televised road games (the Hawks didn't show home games on TV). Honorable mention: Jack Brickhouse, Joe Buck, Harry Caray, Howard Cosell, Bob Costas, Pat Foley, Dan Kelly, Wayne Larrivee, Joe McConnell, Lindsey Nelson.

- Mike Smith