Arizona's 1997 Final Four MVP Miles Simon will be the keynote speaker April 3 at the Good Friday Breakfast held at Westin La Paloma Resort, 7-9 a.m.
His appearance will cap a busy year in which he has been a scout for the NBA Atlanta Hawks and one of Fox sports' lead studio analysts and on-site game commentators for college basketball.
Former UA player and then-Phoenix assistant coach Miles Simon, left, chats with Suns forward Kevin Durant during half time of the Wildcats’ game vs. USC at McKale Center, Jan. 17, 2024.
Simon's emergence as a top college basketball source is the latest in a long and impressive list of ex-UA and Tucson-connected sports figures who have occupied important roles in TV sports. Here's the list of current and former national TV announcers:
– Football: Tedy Bruschi, Rob Gronkowski, Alex Flanagan
– Basketball: Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott, Joan Bonvicini, Tom Tolbert, Corey Williams, Matt Muehlebach, Kevin O'Neill, Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye
– Baseball: Joe Magrane, Terry Francona, J.T. Snow, Wes Clements, Francisco Romero, Jerry Kindall, Andy Lopez
– Golf: Dan Hicks, Ricky Barnes, Jerry Foltz and Jim Furyk, who will make his Golf Channel debut this next week at the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational
– Softball: Kenzie Fowler, Jenny Dalton, Leah O'Brien Amico, Jennie Finch
– Swimming: Cynthia Potter
