- Bob Costas
Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. His mother was of Irish Catholic descent, and his father was of Greek descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. Bob's father, John Costas, was an electrical engineer, baseball fan, and gambler. - Marv Albert
Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig on June 12, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television and radio sportscaster, honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and is commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball." From 1967 to 2004, he was also known as "the voice of the New York Knicks". In 2006, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame - Magic Johnson
Earvin "Magic" Johnson is chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson Development Corporation and Magic Johnson Enterprises. Johnson Development Corporation is dedicated to urban revitalization by providing entertainment complexes, restaurants and retail centers in underserved communities nationwide. The company operates 103 Starbucks nationwide, and has also opened six AMC Magic Johnson Theater complexes across the United States. - Bill Walton
William Theodore Walton III, better known as Bill Walton (born November 5 1952), is a former American basketball player and current television sportscaster. He is the father of current Los Angeles Lakers player Luke Walton. Walton was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on May 10, 1993. - Isiah Thomas
Isiah Lord Thomas III (born April 30 1961, in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, and is currently the head coach and president of basketball operations for the NBA's New York Knicks. He was also referred to by the nicknames "Zeke", "Cuts" (for the numerous cuts over his eyelids), "The Baby-faced Assassin", "The Smiling Assassin", and "Tuss". - Hannah Storm
Hannah Storm (born Hannah Storen on June 13, 1962) is an American television news journalist and a current co-host of CBS' "The Early Show". - Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg is his ninth year calling play-by-play for CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Enberg joined CBS Sports in January 2000 as play-by-play announcer for THE NFL ON CBS, college basketball and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. He also contributes to the Masters and PGA Championship broadcasts. For the second straight year, Enberg also will call Thursday night NFL games on Westwood One and CBS Radio Sports. - Pat Croce
Pasquale "Pat" Croce (born November 2, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American entrepreneur, sports team executive and owner, author, and TV personality. Croce began his career as a physical therapist and was a trainer for the Philadelphia Flyers for more than 10 years. He founded Sports Physical Therapists in 1984 and grew the business into a chain of 40 centers spanning 11 states before selling it in 1993 for $40 million. - Pat Riley
Patrick James "Pat" Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American National Basketball Association head coach and team president of the Miami Heat. Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams and an assistant coach to another. He most recently won the 2006 NBA Championship with the Miami Heat. Prior to his tenure in Miami, he served as head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks. - Doug Collins
Paul Douglas Collins (born July 28, 1951 in Christopher, Illinois), better known as Doug Collins, is a former NBA basketball player and announcer who has also been the head coach of a number of NBA teams. Collins enjoyed a successful high school basketball career in Benton, Illinois, after which he went on to become play for Illinois State University, close to where he grew up, in 1969. - Mike Fratello
Mike Fratello (born February 24, 1947 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is a professional basketball coach and is also known as The Czar of the Telestrator because of his mastery of the telestrator. He previously coached the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA. Fratello has the most wins of any Memphis coach and under Fratello Memphis made the playoffs two years in a row. He has also coached the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks. - Mike Breen
Mike Breen(born June 26 1965) is a play-by-play commentator for the "NBA on ABC". He also works NBA games for ESPN, and was formerly a play-by-play announcers for New York Giants preseason games, as well as for regular season NFL games on both FOX and NBC. Breen, a 1983 graduate of Fordham University, is currently in his 14th season as an NBA broadcaster, with some of those 14 taking place while Breen worked for NBC up until 2002, … - Greg Gumbel
Sports commentator Greg Gumbel is available for personal apperarances at your next conference or corporate event. Greg Gumbels standout work in the busy world of sports broad-casting has made his face, his name and his voice as familiar as any in the industry. For starters, Greg Gumbel is the lead play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports coverage of the National Football League. - Dick Ebersol
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American radio and TV manager. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975 and which he produced from April 1981 to May 1985. He became president of NBC Sports in April 1989. In May 2004, Dick Ebersol was named chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. - Tom Hammond
Tom Hammond (born May 10, 1944 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American sportscaster for NBC television. Hammond is one of the network's staple on-air presenters, along with Bob Costas and Dan Hicks. Hammond is also the chief play-by-play commentator for Lincoln Financial Sports' (formerly Jefferson Pilot Sports) coverage of Southeastern Conference men's college basketball. He has known his color commentator on the Lincoln Financial broadcasts, Larry Conley, … - Julius Erving
Julius Winfield Erving II (born February 22, 1950 in Roosevelt, New York), commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is a former American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim. Erving helped legitimize the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA). Much as some players are considered "the team," Dr. - Jim Gray
Jim Gray is an American sportscaster. He has previously worked as a sideline reporter with NBC Sports and CBS Sports. He is currently with the Westwood One radio network and ESPN/ESPN on ABC. - Curt Gowdy
Curtis Edward Gowdy was an American sportscaster, well-known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox and for his coverage of many nationally-televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s. - Kevin Johnson
Kevin Maurice Johnson (born March 4, 1966 in Sacramento, California) is a retired American basketball point guard who played for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns. Johnson attended Sacramento High School where he starred in both basketball and baseball all four years. Originally drafted in 1986 to play professional baseball with the Oakland Athletics as a shortstop, Johnson chose to play basketball instead, attending the University of California, Berkeley, … - Tom Tolbert
Byron Thomas (Tom) Tolbert (born October 16 1965 in Long Beach, California) is an American sports radio personality/television color analyst for the National Basketball Association. Tolbert was a former college basketball star with the University of Arizona in the late 1980s. He played for various teams in the NBA including the Golden State Warriors, Charlotte Hornets, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Clippers before retiring in the mid 1990s. - Steve Jones
Stephen (Steve) Howard "Snapper" Jones (born October 17 1942, in Alexandria, Louisiana) is one of the most esteemed and watched National Basketball Association (NBA) television analysts. After serving as an analyst on "The NBA on NBC" for 13 years, Jones now works in that same position for ABC, ESPN, and NBATV. Jones' broadcasting career began in 1976 (the season after he retired as a player with the Portland Trail Blazers), … - Matt Guokas
Matthew George "Matt" Guokas, Jr. (born February 25, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Guokas played on the 1967 Philadelphia 76ers team, featuring Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Billy Cunningham, that ended the eight-year championship streak of the Boston Celtics. He also played with the Buffalo Braves, Chicago Bulls, Cincinnati Royals, Houston Rockets, and Kansas City Kings, all of the NBA. - Dan Hicks
J. Daniel "Dan" Hicks (born on June 2, 1962 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American sportscaster for NBC. His primary duties for the network include play-by-play commentary for golf, but he also does occasional play-by-play commentary for "The AFL on NBC" and Notre Dame football. Hicks was also a play-by-play man for "The NBA on NBC", and "The NFL on NBC", and was a tower announcer for NBC's golf coverage until Dick Enberg left NBC for CBS in 2000, … - John Salley
John Thomas "Spider" Salley (born May 16, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, actor and talk show host. He is a 1988 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Management. At 6'11" (2.11 m), Salley played both power forward and center for the Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, Panathinaikos BC and Los Angeles Lakers. - Peter Vecsey
Peter Vecsey (b. 1943) is an American sports columnist and analyst, specializing in basketball. In his childhood, he attended academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, NY) and graduated in 1961. Vecsey currently writes a column on the NBA for the "New York Post". He was formerly an analyst for TBS and NBC. - Don Criqui
Don Criqui is an American football commentator for CBS, primarily working NFL games, and as of May 15, 2006, radio play-by-play man for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He originally started calling play-by-play in 1967 for CBS Sports, before moving on to NBC Sports in 1979. When CBS reacquired the NFL in 1998, Criqui rejoined the network. Though never the top announcer for a network, Don has always been a featured announcer in the American sports scene. - Jayson Williams
Jayson Williams (born February 22, 1968 in Ritter, South Carolina) is a former American basketball player. Standing at 6'10", he played high school basketball for Christ The King RHS in New York City and college basketball for St. John's University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1990. He is infamous for his involvement and subsequent trial in the shooting death of a limousine driver. - Sean Elliott
Sean Michael Elliott (born February 2, 1968 in Tucson, Arizona) is a retired American National Basketball Association player. Elliott played high school basketball at Cholla High School in Tucson, Arizona and played college basketball at the University of Arizona, under the tutelage of Lute Olson, and won the Wooden Award after an exceptional senior season. He was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round in 1989. - Bob Wolff
Bob Wolff is a Hall of Fame Broadcaster and the longest running broadcaster in both radio and television history who was the radio and TV voice of the Washington Senators from 1947 to 1960, continuing with the team when they relocated and became the Minnesota Twins in 1961. He was also nationally known for broadcasting the NBC "Game of the Week" during the 1950s and 1960s along with Joe Garagiola, … - Lindsey Nelson
Lindsey Nelson (May 25, 1919 - June 10, 1995) was an American sportscaster best known for his broadcasts of college football and New York Mets baseball. - Quinn Buckner
William Quinn Buckner, commonly known as Quinn Buckner (born August 20 1954 in Phoenix, Illinois) is a former American professional basketball player and coach. He played collegiately at Indiana University, and was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 7th pick of the 1976 NBA Draft. He had a ten-year NBA career for three different teams (the Bucks, the Boston Celtics, and the Indiana Pacers). Throughout his career he was a solid defensive player, … - Dan Issel
Daniel (Dan) Paul Issel (born October 25, 1948 in Batavia, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. - Marty Glickman
Martin "Marty" Glickman (August 14, 1917 - January 3, 2001) was a Jewish American track and field athlete and sports announcer, born in The Bronx, New York. - P. J. Carlesimo
Peter J. (P. J.) Carlesimo (born May 30, 1949 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is the current head coach of the Seattle Supersonics and a former college and professional basketball coach, and son of Peter A. Carlesimo who was the longtime coach and athletic director at the University of Scranton and Fordham University. - Cotton Fitzsimmons
Lowell Fitzsimmons (October 7, 1931 - July 24, 2004), better known as "Cotton", was a college and NBA basketball coach. A native of Hannibal, Missouri, USA, he attended Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He coached the Phoenix Suns three times, and is often credited as the architect of the Suns' success of the late 1980s and early to middle 1990s. He got his first coaching job at Moberly Junior College in 1956. - Bob Neal
Bob Neal (born November 14, 1942 in Morristown, Tennessee) is an American sportscaster. Neal has been a familiar voice for Turner Broadcasting on its national NBA coverage for TNT and TBS for telecasts for 18 years. Neal's lengthy resume includes play-by-play work for NBA and college football games on NBC. Along with work for TNT and TBS for PGA Tour events, SEC football, and World Cup soccer. Previously, Neal was the radio voice of the Atlanta Falcons (1975-81, … - Lewis Johnson
Lewis Johnson is a reporter for NBC Sports. Currently, he is the sideline reporter for Notre Dame football home games and in 2001 and 2002 was a sideline reporter for the NBA Finals on NBC and for the network's Arena Football telecasts from 2003 through 2006. - Paul Sunderland
Paul Benedict Sunderland (born March 29, 1952) is an American sportscaster based in Los Angeles, California. Over his broadcast career, Sunderland has covered almost every major sport played in Southern California. He has been a studio host for the local affiliate of Fox Sports Net, was the analyst for professional beach volleyball on both FSN and NBC, and has called Olympic sports and the NBA for NBC. - Chris Wragge
Chris Wragge (born June 19, 1970) is the main anchor for WCBS-TV News at 5 and at 11p.m. with Kristine Johnson. Previously, he co-anchored the Noon and 5pm newscasts, after transitioning from his role as the station's sports director. - Ahmad Rashād
Ahmad Rashād is an Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Cardinals, 1972-73; Buffalo Bills, 1974-76; Seattle Seahawks, 1976; and most notably, Minnesota Vikings, 1976-82 where he earned four Pro Bowl selections from 1978 to 1981. He graduated from Mount Tahoma High school in Tacoma, Washington, in 1967.
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