Eli Gold

Eli Gold (born December 1953) is a sportscaster, best known as the radio voice (since 1988) of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team and as host (since 1982) of NASCAR Live on the Motor Racing Network. Gold also anchors NBC Sports' Arena Football League coverage and provides radio play-by-play for the National Football League.

Gold was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began his broadcasting career in 1972 as a weekend sports reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System. His first specialty was hockey and he has announced for teams in the Eastern, North American, Southern, American, Central, and National Hockey Leagues. In the NHL, Gold announced games for the Saint Louis Blues.

He moved to Birmingham 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 that station's television affiliate, WBRC 6, 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.

Gold has also performed announcing duties for the Birmingham Barons and the UAB Blazers 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.

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.

Books

• Gold, Eli (2005). Crimson Nation: The Shaping of the South's Most Dominant Football Team. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press. ISBN 1401601901.

References

• Bio at Footballspeakers.com
• capsule bio at RollTide.com