IAN EAGLE
Play-by-Play Announcer
THE NFL ON CBS
This is Ian Eagle's 11th year as a play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' NCAA Men's Basketball Championship coverage. He has called play-by-play for the Network's coverage of the National Football League since 1998. In addition, Eagle called the Network's high definition television coverage of the 2001 AFC Divisional Playoffs and 2000 AFC Championship Game, as well as the Army-Navy football game for the past six years (2002-07), the NCAA Track and Field Championships for the past four years (2004-07) and served as the studio host for "U.S. Open Late Night Highlight Show" in 2004 and 2005.
He called play-by-play for CBS Sports' coverage of the 2006 U.S. Open Tennis Championships, and served as a contributor for its coverage in 2007. Also in 2007 he served as play-by-play announcer for the "Tennis Channel" at the French Open. This season marks Eagle's eighth year calling New York Jets' pre-season games on WCBS-TV in New York. Since the 2006-07 NBA season he has hosted the NBA show "Full Court Press," this season with Dee Brown and Rick Mahorn on Sirius Radio. Eagle also has called the NBA playoffs for NBA-TV the last three years alongside analyst, and CBS Sports colleague, Bill Raftery. And he is once again the play-by-play voice of "NBA '08" with Mark Jackson for the Sony PSP video game.
Eagle also served as the blow-by-blow commentator for CBS Sports' coverage of the Showtime Championship Boxing series in 2000. He has served as the play-by-play announcer for the NBA's New Jersey Nets television broadcasts since 1995, after having called play-by-play for radio broadcasts the previous year. Eagle won a 2002 New York Sports Emmy Award for game coverage of the dramatic Nets-Indiana Pacers playoff Game 5. He was the play-by-play radio voice for the NFL's New York Jets in 1997 and also was a reporter for TNT's coverage of the NBA playoffs in 1996. Eagle joined WFAN Radio in New York in 1990 as a producer and debuted as host of his own show in 1992. He hosted Jets pre- and post-game shows on WFAN from 1993 to 1996.
A 1990 graduate of Syracuse University, Eagle was the play-by-play voice of the Orangemen for football, basketball and lacrosse, and was awarded the Bob Costas Award for Outstanding Sportscasting. He lives in Essex Fells, N.J., with his wife, Alisa, and two children.
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