Monday, April 02, 2012
Jim Nantz, Inspired by Father, Takes Role in Alzheimer’s Research - NYTimes.com - Richard Sandomir - 1/20/2011 - Jim Nantz had a master plan: his father would retire from his furniture business and join him on the road at N.F.L. games, golf tournaments and college basketball arenas. The elder Nantz, who was also named Jim, would help manage and organize his son’s busy life on the road. “He’d tell me, ‘Oh, son, you really don’t need me,’ ” Nantz said. But really, he wanted his gregarious father — his first and best confidant and a former college football player — with him as much as possible and to enjoy the Masters, the Super Bowl and the N.C.A.A. Final Four together. They were maybe a year from that goal. -- The elder Nantz died in 2008, soon after the release of his son’s book “Always by My Side: The Healing Gift of a Father’s Love” (Gotham), which told the parallel stories of his sportscasting career and life with a parent with Alzheimer’s.
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