CBS Sports TV Team

IAN EAGLE
Play-by-Play Announcer
THE NFL ON CBS

Ian Eagle joined CBS Sports in March 1998. This is his 13th year as a play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' NCAA Men's Basketball Championship coverage. Since 2008, he has served as play-by-play announcer for WestwoodOne during its NCAA Tournament coverage of the Regionals. 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 seven years (2002-08), and the NCAA Track and Field Championships for the past six years (2004-09) and served as the studio host for "U.S. Open Late Night Highlight Show" in 2004 and 2005.

He has called play-by-play and has been a contributor for CBS Sports' coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships for the past four years, as well as the French Open for the "Tennis Channel" since 2007. Eagle also called the Masters® and PGA Championship for DirecTV/CBSSports.com in 2009 and 2008. This season marked Eagle's 10th year calling New York Jets' pre-season games on WCBS-TV in New York.

In 2009, he again served as play-by-play announcer for WestwoodOne Radio's Thursday Night NFL Broadcasts. From 2005-08 he hosted the NBA "Full Court Press," on Sirius Radio. Eagle also called the NBA playoffs for NBATV the last four years alongside analyst, and CBS Sports colleague, Bill Raftery. And he is once again the play-by-play voice of "NBA '09" with Kenny "The Jet" Smith 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 was nominated for a 2008 New York Sports Emmy for outstanding play-by-play announcer and won the 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. For the past eight years Eagle has hosted, along with Bruce Beck, the "Bruce Beck and Ian Eagle Sportscasters Camp" (www.sportsbroadcastingcamp.com) for kids. 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.