JIM MCKAY

Legendary Sportscaster, Jim McKay, has died at the age of 86.

He was the host of ABC’s influential “Wild World of Sports” for more than 40 years, starting in 1961.

McKay provided the famous voice-over that accompanied the opening – “spanning the Globe to bring you the constant variety of sports” and what lay ahead “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.”

He covered 12 Olympics, but none more memorably than the Summer Games in Munich, Germany. He was also in the studio for the United States’ “Miracle on Ice” victory over the Soviet Union.

McKay was the first sportscaster to win an Emmy Award. He won 12, the last in 1988. ABC calculated that McKay traveled some 4 ½ million miles to work events. He covered more than 100 different sports in 40 countries. In 2002, McKay received the International Olympic Committee’s highest honor, the Olympic Order.