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Color commentator

Former Extreme Championship Wrestling color commentator Cyrus was known for having dual roles as a heel manager and a somewhat neutral commentator.


Alejandro Freire

Following his playing retirement, Freire has worked as a color commentator for ESPN Deportes during winter baseball.

Benoît Brunet

A few years after his retirement, Brunet was hired as a colour commentator for the French-language sports network RDS for NHL games that didn't involve the Montreal Canadiens.

Ed Westfall

After the end of his playing days, Westfall became the Islanders color analyst for what was then known as SportsChannel.

George Kell

Kell's television partners included Ray Lane, Larry Osterman, and (beginning in 1975) Al Kaline as color commentator, the latter pairing lasting for the remainder of Kell's broadcast career.

Håkan Södergren

Karl Håkan Södergren (born June 14, 1959 in Rosersberg, Sweden) is a retired professional ice hockey player, often a recurring color commentator in Viasat's ice hockey broadcast productions.

Jimmy King

During the 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines season King served as a radio color commentator.

John Ahlers

Ahlers joined the Ducks television broadcasts for the 2002–03 NHL season, partnering with longtime Ducks color commentator Brian Hayward.

Lanny Frattare

He started as Milo Hamilton's junior partner, calling just two innings of most games and serving as Hamilton's color man.

Mike Lucci

Lucci also appeared as himself in the 1968 film Paper Lion, and from 1976-78 served as color commentator for Lions broadcasts on WJR radio.

Niklas Wikegård

Niklas Wikegård (born October 3, 1963) is a Swedish former ice hockey player and coach, currently working for the TV4 Group as a color commentator in ice hockey-related shows.

Paul Christman

After retiring as a player, Christman worked as a television color commentator, first teaming with play-by-play announcer Joe Boland to call Cardinals games for CBS in 1958-59.

Raul Allegre

Allegre was later offered a position for a Dallas Cowboys pre-game show, and later eventually leading to his current work as color commentator for Monday Night Football with Álvaro Martín for ESPN in Latin America.

Rick Sutcliffe

After his retirement from baseball, Sutcliffe became a color commentator for the San Diego Padres on Channel 4 San Diego (1997–2004), ESPN (1998–present) and DirecTV/MLB International (1997–2002 and since 2010, as well as a minor-league pitching coach in the San Diego Padres system for a couple of seasons.

Sherry Ross

Sherry Ross is an American sports broadcaster and journalist, currently working alongside Matt Loughlin as a color commentator for the NHL's New Jersey Devils radio broadcasts.

UFC 4

Play-by-play announcer Bruce Beck and color commentator Jeff Blatnick were paired together for the first time on the pay-per-view and became the regular commentary team on UFC broadcasts up to and including UFC 15.


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1997 Philadelphia Eagles season

The 1997 campaign was notable in that it ended a 13-year radio partnership between broadcasters Merrill Reese and former Eagle Stan Walters on 94 WIP. Mike Quick became the color commentator the following season.

Add Penfield

Bob Harris served as his color commentator and the two broadcast both Duke football and Duke basketball men's basketball games.

Allison Danger

She co-runs the promotion along with Dave Prazak, as well as being an active wrestler and color commentator for the DVDs.

Bernie Federko

Currently, Federko is a television color commentator for Fox Sports Midwest during Blues broadcasts.

Bill Corum

Starting with the first Joe Louis-Billy Conn heavyweight title fight on June 18, 1941, Corum joined announcer Don Dunphy as ringside color commentator.

Bob Thornbladh

After retiring from coaching, Thornbladh became the color commentator on WJR radio broadcasts of Michigan Wolverines football games.

He later served as the color commentator for Michigan football broadcasts on WJR radio.

Bror-Erik Wallenius

He usually commentates athletics together with Antero Mertaranta, basketball with a colour commentator (Jukka Toijala and Henrik Dettman in the 2000s), and skiing with color commentator too (Juha Mieto, Pekka Vähäsöyrinki and Kari Ristanen in the 2000s).

Chot Reyes

He also in 1998, Reyes appeared as a color commentator of the Metropolitan Basketball Association's coverage on Studio 23 it has been produced by ABS-CBN Sports during its maiden season of the league.

Dante Washington

He currently is the color commentator for the Columbus Crew's television broadcasts of home matches on the Ohio News Network and frequently appears on the network's weekly Crew Xtra program.

Gino Cappelletti

Gino, who did TV sports in Boston in the 1960s, also served as color commentator for the Boston College Eagles during the 1984 game between the University of Miami and Boston College when Doug Flutie hit Gerard Phelan on the final play.

Greg Gross

After his baseball career ended, Gross worked as a color commentator for several games for SportsChannel Philadelphia in 1991.

Howard Cross

He is currently a co-host of the YES Network's This Week in Football, as well as serving as color commentator alongside John Sterling on the network's Ivy League football telecasts.

Ian Joy

Joy often makes an appearance as color commentator for ESPN 700 alongside Bill Riley, for Major league soccer team Real Salt Lake.

Jack Ham

He served as a color commentator for national radio broadcasts of NFL games, and later hosted a show in Pittsburgh with Mark Madden on ESPN Radio 1250 during the NFL season.

Jack Tunney

Heel color commentator Jesse "the Body" Ventura attempted to bring up the subject several times but was censored each time, upsetting him so much that he left the broadcast booth toward the end of the show.

John Lowenstein

In 1986, Lowenstein served as a backup color commentator (behind Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek) on NBC's Game of the Week broadcasts alongside play-by-play man Ted Robinson.

Jonathan Paiement

Paiement, Nicolas Blanchard, Joe Jensen, Casey Borer, and the River Rats' radio color commentator, John Hennessy, were all taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield with "serious" injuries.

Ken Hodge

He served as the radio color commentator for the Boston College men's hockey team throughout their 2007–08 NCAA Championship season, working alongside play-by-play man Jon Rish on flagship station WTTT (1150AM).

Ken Singleton

After retiring as a baseball player, Singleton began his broadcasting career as a sportscaster for WJZ-TV in Baltimore in the middle 1980s and, has worked for TSN (The Sports Network) as a television color commentator and as a radio color commentator on Montreal Expos broadcasts and as a color commentator for Fox Sports.

Larry Anderson

Larry Andersen (born 1953), American former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and current color commentator for the Philadelphia Phillies

Mark Holtz

Holtz and color commentator Eric Nadel, who joined him in 1982, became one of the most recognized broadcast teams in the DFW area.

NHL 2000

Daryl Reaugh left the series as color commentator in this game and was replaced by Bill Clement.

NHL 99

Daryl Reaugh left the series as color commentator following NHL 99.

Pat Tabler

Tabler took over as the main color commentator for TSN's main rival, Rogers Sportsnet in 2005 after the death of their regular commentator John Cerutti, and called the majority of games for both networks from 2005 to 2009 alongside Jamie Campbell and Rod Black.

Peter McNab

On June 8, 2009, McNab signed a multi-year deal with Altitude, where he started his 14th season as color commentator for the Colorado Avalanche at the beginning of the 2009-2010 NHL season.

Rob Rubick

Rubick was the radio color commentator for EMU football on WEMU from 2004-10.

Stacey King

King is currently working as a color commentator for Chicago Bulls television broadcasts on Comcast SportsNet Chicago and WGN-TV.

Tallahassee Titans

Also starting with the Gulf Coast game, the Titans have had an official broadcast team, consisting of Play-by-Play Commentator Drew Goldfarb, Color Commentator and Analyst Brandon Beyer, the sell out, and Sideline Correspondent Courtney Jones.

Vic Obeck

While at NYU, Obeck served as a college and high school basketball color commentator for WPIX; calling games alongside future Basketball Hall of Famer Marty Glickman.