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ESPN tabs British guy for '10 Cup; Jim Nantz in divorce court
Photo credit: AP Photo/Stephen Chernin
Random Monday morning stuff:
Everyone knows it's not really a big soccer game if an American guy is calling it, so ESPN - which got hammered for its use of Dave O'Brien in the 2006 World Cup - will go with Brit Martin Tyler for 2010, Deitsch reports here. (Grant Best, no relation as far as I know, will be the director.)
Speaking of venerable play-by-play men, CBS' Jim Nantz...
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