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Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)

American horse racing announcer & television sports announcer (1918–1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
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James George Snyder Sr., better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker. A regular contributor to the CBS program The NFL Today, Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to determine the point spread. In January 1988, Snyder was fired by CBS after he made comments suggesting that breeding practices during slavery had led blacks to become superior athletes.

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The public source identifies “Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)” as american horse racing announcer & television sports announcer (1918–1996). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jimmy, Snyder and sports.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jimmy, Snyder and sports providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.