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In 2006, JB returned to CBS Sports as host for the CBS Television Network's NFL pre-game show, The NFL Today, a play-by-play announcer for the network's coverage of college basketball, and Inside The NFL, alongside analysts Phil Simms, Cris Collinsworth and Warren Sapp. JB is also a co-founder of the Brown Technology Group, a certified minority-owned and operated company that helps organizations with the planning and management of IT initiatives. JB has also recently written his first book, titled “Role Of A Lifetime: Reflections on Faith, Family and Significant Living”.

Growing up, JB had a great childhood, although he didn’t grow up wealthy. Understanding the benefits of discipline; he found a way to incorporated it in both his academics and athletics, which he contributes to his mother and father (John and Mary Ann Brown). He comes from a family of five siblings. His father worked two and three jobs to make certain his mother could stay home and raise them. In a recent interview JB said, “education was something she took serious, because she knew that education was the key to success in the game of life.”

The high school JB attended offered great academics, it also offered basketball, as well as, superb extracurricular activities. JB wanted to play basketball, but had to earn the right to play, by getting good grades, which meant, he had to be home by seven o’clock, at the kitchen table to do his homework. “The kitchen table was our library. So much wisdom was dispensed around the kitchen table and mom Brown did a wonderful job in dispensing pearls of wisdom to us, and we had to adhere. She ran the ship.”

JB ended up working in corporate America for Xerox; making good money and engaging in hedonistic pursuits. After coming home from a Xerox training session one night, JB began experiencing an emptiness-an emptiness and a void that he had been experiencing for some time. He decided that night that he wanted to dedicate his life to God and said, he asked the Lord to come into his life. He committed his life that night; began the process of growing spiritually and started experiencing great fulfillment.

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When it was time for JB to go to college, he got a scholarship to attend Harvard University, and was drafted by the NBA to play for the Atlanta Harks. He had worked hard the summer prior to training camp, but the four years during his undergrad, he said, he didn’t put in the kind of time needed to get better, and ended up paying the price. “There’s no such thing as standing still, you’re either getting better or you’re getting worse, and that 's the game of life, as well. You’re either making progress or you’re regressing.” He was cut from the Atlanta Harks, because he didn’t work as hard to stay on top as he did to get to the top. After getting cut, he vowed to himself that he would never allow an opportunity to pass him by that he was ill prepared for, and he determined that he would continue to move forward as oppose to regressing.

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Sportscaster James Brown (commonly called JB) is one of the most widely recognized and admired sports commentators in the country. JB is known for being the host of the FOX network's NFL pregame show Fox NFL Sunday......

Working at Xerox, JB shared, that he began to see how many people were engage in self-promotion; thinking that going up the ladder meant stepping over people in the process and making it a look at them kind of thing. He said, he realized, that was not the way to go. “Coming from teem sports, I learned it’s about the group. Our coach had a sign over the door instructive in terms of what I learned in corporate America. The sign said, "check your ego at the door, subordinated your own personal desires for the good of the teem; whatever your God given talent is, use it for the good of the teem.”

Brown brings the same discipline to broadcasting as he did when he was playing basketball. “In getting to a higher level, each level brings with it additional responsibilities and work associated with getting to that higher level. If it means being conversant with whatever the headlines and topics of the day are, then I had to work at it to make sure I understood what the topics of interest were, for that given week; understanding each players responsibilities, what the coaching philosophy was; so as to make sure I was well school in that, able to talk to the guys who are the experts--those who either played the game or coached the game. All for the purpose of being able to ask relevant, knowledgeable and intelligent questions of them, to help them… look good. If I can illicit from them the best, then we can set the stage for the viewers who are watching our show to be prepared for the game that they are going to watch.” So, in reference to “Roll of a Lifetime”, JB said, “my roll is to be a good point guard or a good assist man, or a good quarter back, to set everyone else up to do well.”

Posted: December 14th, 2009

After Xerox, JB moved into broadcasting and become a Sportscaster. “I was blessed to be able to work in the studio with others and apply those principles. It’s not about me, it’s about the teem. Find out what their strengths are. Play to their strengths. Maximize their strengths. Minimize the weaknesses and the entire teem will benefit from that attitude (if you will), and that’s what I’ve done. Many people have had a contrary attitude to that in the game of life, thinking, hey look at me.”