Bill Macatee to be honored by alma materPress Release
(February 7, 2011) Lamar University will honor sportscaster Bill Macatee as a 2011 Distinguished Alumnus.
Macatee earned a bachelor's degree in speech at Lamar in 1978 while working as sports director at Beaumont's KBMT Channel 12. He later worked at television stations in Kansas City and Dallas before becoming the youngest network sportscaster in the industry when he joined NBC at age 26. Since 1995, Macatee has been at CBS Sports where he handles NFL play-by-play and plays a major role in golf and tennis coverage, including the Masters, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships and Wimbledon. Macatee has covered events including the NCAA college basketball tournament, two Olympic winter games, Super Bowls and World Series. He will be honored as Distinguished Alumnus. _______________________
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