Only Sportscaster – Male or Female – to have Worked on the Network Broadcast of
The Final Four, The Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals, The Triple Crown, The Olympics,
the U.S. Open, and the World Figure Skating Championship
A Trailblazing Legacy of Firsts
- First Woman to Win the Emmy Sports Lifetime Achievement Award
- First Woman Enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- First and Only Woman to Handle a Super Bowl Trophy Presentation
- First and Only Woman to win the Billie Jean King “Outstanding Journalist Award”
- First Woman on the NBA Finals (1984 – the Iconic Celtics-Lakers Series, CBS)
- First Woman on the World Series (1990, CBS)
- First Woman on the Final Four (1989, CBS)
- First Woman Assigned to legendary Monday Night Football
- Voted the No. 1 Female Sportscaster of All-Time
- Voted to National Media Sports Assoc. Hall Of Fame as a Sportswriter (Boston Globe)
- Voted to Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame (CBS, ABC, HBO and ESPN)
- Named one of Esquire’s “Women We Love”
- Named one of Five Ideal Dinner Guests by GQ
- On the Board of the V Foundation for more than 20 years
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Invited by the US State Department to Uzbekistan, Lesley shares her trailblazing career
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Lesley Visser covered her first Final Four in 1980. Here are her five favorite things about the big dance.
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Billie Jean King and the Original 9 Tennis Hall of Fame Induction
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