Eli Gold
Eli Gold (born
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
December 1953 in
Brooklyn, New York. He began his broadcasting career in
1972 as a weekend sports reporter for the
Mutual Broadcasting System. 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.
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-AM 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
University of Alabama at Birmingham 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.
Gold currently resides in Birmingham with his wife, Claudette, and his daughter, Elise.
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Bio at Footballspeakers.com
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capsule bio at RollTide.com
