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No stranger to charitable efforts, JB hosts the Players' Gala, featuring "The JB Awards" where NFL players are honored for their outstanding community service. The event raises $1M annually for Special Olympics DC. He has also worked on behalf of Darrell Green's Youth Life Foundation, the Neimann Pick Disease Foundation and the Marrow Foundation, among numerous other charities and foundations.
Brown served as host of "FOX NFL Sunday" for 12 years prior to returning to CBS Sports. He joined FOX Sports in June 1994 after a decade with CBS Sports. Brown hosted "Hang Time with James Brown", on Sporting News Radio. For over a decade, he was a reporter/correspondent for HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" and a boxing host for some of the biggest championship boxing matches in history for HBO pay-per-view.
Brown first joined CBS Sports in 1984 where he served as play-by-play announcer for the the network's NFL and college basketball coverage as well as reporter for the NBA Finals. He also was host of an afternoon show, the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. While at CBS he was also co-host of "CBS Sports Saturday/Sunday," a weekend anthology series.
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