Eli Gold
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| Eli Gold | |
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 Eli Gold in October 2006 |
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| Born | 1953 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Sportscaster Radio host Author |
Eli Gold (born 1953 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American sportscaster. Gold is best known as the radio voice for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, along with Tom Roberts, as part of the Crimson Tide Sports Network since 1988. He has also been the host of NASCAR Live on the Motor Racing Network since 1982. He formerly anchored Arena Football League's coverage on TNN and NBC, and anchors National Football League play-by-play coverage on Sports USA Radio Network.
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[edit] Biography
Gold was born in December 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. He began his broadcasting career in 1972 as a weekend sports reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System.
[edit] Ice hockey announcing
His first specialty was announcing ice hockey for the Eastern, North American, Southern, American, Central, and the National Hockey Leagues. In the NHL, Gold announced games for the 1979–80 St. Louis Blues over KDNL-TV and was the radio play-by-play announcer for Nashville Predators during the 2006–07 NHL season.
[edit] Alabama sportscasting career
Gold moved to Birmingham, Alabama to broadcast the Birmingham Bulls hockey team of the World Hockey Association. He created Birmingham's first local sports call-in show, Calling All Sports on WERC which became a staple of Birmingham sports radio for 20 years. He eventually rose to the position of Sports Director for what was then that market's ABC affiliate, WBRC where he anchored evening news sports segments and hosted "Sports Talk with Eli", a weekly call-in show. From 2002 to 2004 he hosted a daily sports talk show also called Calling All Sports on WJOX-AM in Birmingham.
Gold has also performed announcing duties for the Birmingham Barons AA baseball team and the UAB Blazers men's basketball team. He has been voted "Alabama Sportscaster of the Year" four times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He has also won the same honor from the Associated Press and United Press International.
[edit] NASCAR announcing
In addition, Gold has worked with MRN Radio and TNN Motorsports as a lap-by-lap announcer of NASCAR races. He still, from time to time, can be heard on MRN's NASCAR broadcasts and remains one of the network's most recognized and popular voices.
According to NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace who also broadcasts NASCAR themed shows on SPEED Channel and St. Louis radio station KMOX-AM, Gold "is one of the most recognizable voices in NASCAR and in all of sports broadcasting."[1]
[edit] Personal life
Gold currently resides in Birmingham, AL with his wife and daughter. Gold is also a part owner of Nino's Italian Restaurant which is located in Pelham, AL.
[edit] Books
Gold's second book was released in August 2007 and is called Bear's Boys. The book focuses on thirty-six of coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's Alabama football players and explores where they are today and how Coach Bryant's lessons impacted them in their post-University Of Alabama days.
Gold's third book, "From Peanuts To The Press Box" will tell his life's story. The story of the boy from Brooklyn, New York who went from selling peanuts at Madison Square Garden and now works in the press boxes and radio booths of America. Release date is scheduled for mid-August 2009.
- Gold, Eli (2005). Crimson Nation: The Shaping of the South's Most Dominant Football Team. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 1-4016-0190-1.
[edit] References
- ^ "Radio Legend Eli Gold On KMOX (audio)". KMOX-AM. http://kmox.com/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=75297. Retrieved 2006-12-28.
