Tony Luftman: Former UCLA Bruin Loving the Tennis Life in New York

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Published: July 16, 2012

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As a former UCLA basketball manager and then announcer, Tony Luftman has been a part of a great deal of Bruins hoops history.

He was on the court when Jim Harrick's squad won the 1995 NCAA title, he was there for the ups and downs of Steve Lavin's tenure and he has been in and around Pauley Pavilion for Ben Howland's highs and lows.

He even had a front-row seat on sports history with the legendary John Wooden, taking a special tutorial which gave him a self-described "Sunday's With Morrie" experience with "The Wizard of Westwood" during his salad days, talking for endless hours with the legendary coach about life in and around the business of sport.

But these days, the 35-year-old actor and announcer is spending his time on the media's biggest stage, New York, working broadcasts for St. John's University and this month serving as the public address announcer for the World TeamTennis New York Sportimes during their July season, calling matches both at their state-of-the-art $19 million facility on Randall's Island or later this month in upstate Troy, N.Y.

Regardless of the locale in and around Gotham, the lifelong Bruin and self-described sports junkie is having the time of his life enjoying sports back east after a career that has seen him on the NBA sidelines in Portland and Memphis in addition to his work in and around L.A.

"It's all fun and one experience builds on the other, so what's not to enjoy?" he said recently as he readied his notes to call the Sportimes match with the Philadelphia Freedoms. "New York has been a great experience for me, and I can't wait to see what's next."

What's next for him this week will be a very unique experience, calling the Sportimes-Boston Lobsters matchup on Thursday, when New York captain John McEnroe meets fellow legend Andre Agassi in a special match to benefit the Johnny Mac Tennis Project, the not-for-profit arm of McEnroe's two-year-old Academy that provi...
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