List of Jewish sportscasters and promoters

Jewish sportscasters and promoters refers to sportscasters and sports promoters who are Jews and have attained outstanding achievements in sports.

List

Chris Berman

Roy Firestone

Mike Greenberg

Jews who are sportscasters or sports promoters:

• Kenny Albert, US sportscaster
• Marv Albert, US sportscaster^[1]
• Mel Allen, US sportscaster, New York Yankees play-by-play announcer^[1]
• Bob Arum, US boxing promoter^[2]
• Senda Berenson, Russian-born US basketball pioneer^[3]
• Chris Berman, US ESPN talk show host^[4]
• Len Berman, US sportscaster^[1]
• Bonnie Bernstein, US ESPN sportscaster^[1]
• Steve Buckhantz, US Washington Wizards play-by-play announcer
• Steve Bunin, US ESPN sportscaster^[5]
• Craig Carton, US WFAN morning show
• Linda Cohn, US ESPN anchor^[1]
• Myron Cope, US Pittsburgh Steelers radio announcer^[6]
• Howard Cosell, US sportscaster^[1]
• Seth Davis, US ESPN sportscaster^[1] <"Center for Sport and Jewish Life, interview."/><http://www.csjl.org/articles/article71-SethDavis.htm>
• Ian Eagle, US sportscaster
• Rich Eisen, US ESPN, NFL network anchor^[7]
• Al Farb US, (1905–2005) boxing promoter of championship bouts including Floyd Patterson vs. Brian London <Toledo Blade, April 7, 1959, p. 2"/><http://www.indystar.com/article/20051201/NEWS01/512010414/Al-Farb-boxing-promoter-Indianapolis-bail-bondsman/>
• Roy Firestone, US sportscaster^[8]
• CK Friedlander, South African rugby commentator.^[9]
• Elliotte Friedman, Canadian CBC Sports broadcaster^[10]
• Joel Gertner, US professional wrestling promoter
• Hank Goldberg, US football analyst^[11]
• Marty Glickman, US, sprinter & broadcaster; US Olympic team, All American (football)
• Doug Gottlieb, US ESPN NCAA Basketball analyst^[12]
• Mike Greenberg, US ESPN anchor^[13]
• Paul Heyman, US professional wrestling manager & promoter^[14]
• Mike Jacobs, US boxing promoter^[15]
• Dana Jacobson, US co-host ESPN's Cold Pizza
• Billy Jaffe, US New York Islanders sportscaster^[16]
• Max Kellerman, boxing broadcaster^[17]
• Suzy Kolber, US ESPN sportswriter^[18]
• Tony Kornheiser, US radio show host, t.v. show host, author^[1]
• Justin Kutcher, US sportscaster
• Michael Landsberg, Canadian TSN anchor^[19]
• Ken Levine, Major League Baseball announcer
• Steve Levy, US ESPN anchor^[7]
• Mike Lynch, 1080 The Fan ESPN Portland Host ^[20]
• Mitch Melnick, Canadian Montreal Expos English radio colour analyst
• Al Michaels, US sportscaster^[21]
• Johnny Most, US Boston Celtics sportscaster^[22]
• Sam Muchnick US wrestling promoter^[23]
• Elliott Price, Canadian Montreal Expos radio play-by-play^[24]
• Karl Ravech, US ESPN journalist^[18]
• Scott Reiss, US ESPN anchor
• Jim Rome, US radio, TV host^[25]
• Howie Rose, US New York Islanders, New York Mets sportscaster
• Sam Rosen US New York Rangers on TV, NHL on OLN, NFL on Fox sportscaster^[26]
• Dick Schaap, US sportswriter & broadcaster^[27]
• Jeremy Schaap, US sports commentator & broadcaster (son of Dick Schaap)^[28]
• Louis O. Schwartz - US President, American Sportscasters Association (ASA) - Founder, ASA Hall of Fame - Editor, ASA Insiders Sportsletter - Former President, Finger Lakes Broadcasting Corp.^[29]
• Archie Shacksnovis, first man to broadcast rugby in South Africa.^[9]
• Dan Shulman, Can. sportscaster ESPN: Sunday Baseball, College Basketball coverage^[30]
• Charley Steiner, US Los Angeles Dodgers radio-TV play-by-play announcer^[31]
• Dick Stockton, US TNT broadcaster
• Steve Stone, US WGN-TV broadcaster^[32]
• Bert Sugar, American boxing writer^[33]
• Suzyn Waldman, US New York Yankees TV play-by-play announcer & current commentator/analyst for NY Yankees radio; 1st woman to hold either position on regular basis for Major League baseball team^[1]
• Lisa Winston^[1]
• Warner Wolf, US sportscaster, w/CBS 9 in Washington, D.C. & CBS 2 in New York City, now w/WABC NewsTalkRadio 77 in NYC^[1]
• Andrea Kremer, US sportscaster/ NBC sideline reporter
• Mickey Duff, British Boxing Promoter
• Josh Elliott, American Television Journalist
• J Russell Peltz, US Boxing Promoter
• Adam Schefter, Adam Schefter is an American sports writer and television analyst.

See also

• List of Jewish American sportspeople
• List of Jewish chess players
• List of Jews in sports
• Jewish Sports Review
• International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Netanya, Israel
• US National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, Commack, New York

References

Books

• Jews and Baseball: The Post-Greenberg Years, 1949–2008, Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-2828-1
• The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players, Howard Megdal, Collins, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-155843-6
• Jews and the Sporting Life, Vol. 23 of Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Ezra Mendelsohn, Oxford University Press US, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-538291-4
• Day by Day in Jewish Sports History, Bob Wechsler, KTAV Publishing House, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60280-013-7
• The Big Book of Jewish Athletes: Two Centuries of Jews in Sports – a Visual History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, S P I Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56171-927-3
• The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars, Peter S. Horvitz, SP Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56171-907-5
• Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass, University of Illinois Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-252-07324-3
• The New Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, Perseus Distribution Services, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56171-821-4
• Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe, Michael Brenner, Gideon Reuveni, translated by Brenner, Reuveni, U of Nebraska Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8032-1355-5
• Judaism's Encounter with American Sports, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Indiana University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-253-34700-8
• Great Jews in Sports, Robert Slater, Jonathan David Publishers, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8246-0453-0
• Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash between Sport and Politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists, Paul Taylor, Sussex Academic Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-903900-88-8
• The Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, SP Books, 2001, ISBN 978-1-56171-973-0
• Jewish Sports Legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame, 3rd Ed, Joseph Siegman, Brassey's, 2000, ISBN 978-1-57488-284-1
• Sports and the American Jew, Steven A. Riess, Syracuse University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8156-2754-8
• When Boxing was a Jewish Sport, Allen Bodner, Praeger, 1997, ISBN 978-0-275-95353-9
• Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience, Peter Levine, Oxford University Press US, 1993, ISBN 978-0-19-508555-6
• The Jewish Child's Book of Sports Heroes, Robert Slater, Jonathan David Publishers, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8246-0360-1
• The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Joseph M. Siegman, SP Books, 1992, ISBN 978-1-56171-028-7
• The Jewish Athletes Hall of Fame, B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman, Shapolsky Publishers, 1989, ISBN 978-0-944007-04-4
• The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame, Ken Blady, SP Books, 1988, ISBN 978-0-933503-87-8
• The Jewish Baseball Hall of Fame: a Who's Who of Baseball Stars, Erwin Lynn, Shapolsky Publishers, 1986, ISBN 978-0-933503-17-5
• From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary, Andrew Handler, East European Monographs, 1985, ISBN 978-0-88033-085-5
• The Jew in American Sports, Harold Uriel Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Edition 4, Hippocrene Books, 1985, ISBN 978-0-88254-995-8
• Jewish Baseball Stars, Harold Uriel Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Hippocrene Books, 1984, ISBN 978-0-88254-898-2
• The Jewish Athlete: A Nostalgic View, Leible Hershfield, s.n., 1980
• Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports, Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver, Bloch Pub. Co., 1965

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