
Then I ran all the way up the hill to make it to our set at the Hilton. Two hours later, I had six minutes before I was going on the air, and I’m trying to find a place to stash my car. Met him a few times for cross-divisional effort and a bit intimidating for sure. On the morning of the parade, I left my house at 7:30 a.m. Born in San Francisco, James Donovan came to Santa Clara following the 1906 earthquake at the age of nine and resided in this house the rest of his life. He is a partner MD in PWM Boston, not investment banker. The people walking by me think I’m a lunatic. As I walk my dogs around Hinckley Lake, I think, I’ve called the Browns winning the Super Bowl about 100 times.

Would I have liked to be in the position to call that game? Absolutely. I had always wondered what it would be like to be on the other side of the scoreboard.
#JIM DONOVAN SERIES#
I can remember how devastating it was when the Indians lost that World Series Game 7 in Florida. I took a step back from the monitor and thought, Son of a gun, this is really going to happen. James Francis Donovan III (born July 17, 1956) is an American radio and television personality who serves as sports director and news anchor for WKYC. I was in the editing room getting ready to go on the air when Kyrie Irving hit that 3-point shot. The voice of the Browns, Jim Donovan joins Nathan Zegura to recap the first three Browns games and take a closer look at the latest news from around the league. “But when you have the best player going into a Game 7, you’ve got a great chance.” Donovan ended up with a pretty good seat for the Cavs victory parade - overlooking Mall B from the terrace of the Hilton Cleveland Downtown. “I didn’t even know if they were going to win a game,” says Donovan, whose confidence rose when the Cavs forced the deciding game. Jim Donovan came down and said : Otto got hurt 78 and he said, You got the keys, take them over to the yard and there will be a watchman there. So the longtime voice of the Cleveland Browns had his doubts when the Cleveland Cavaliers faced a 2-0 deficit against the Golden State Warriors. WKYC sports director Jim Donovan had a front row seat to the agony of The Drive, The Fumble, The Shot and the Cleveland Indians’ Game 7 loss to the Florida Marlins in the 1997 World Series.


The voice of the Cleveland Browns now knows what it’s like to be on the other side of the scoreboard. Business Hall of Fame and Community Leader of the Year Awards.
