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unusual facts about color analyst



Andy Robustelli

After his retirement as an active player, Robustelli spent one year (1965) as a color analyst for NBC's coverage of the American Football League.

Bob Rosburg

Robert Reginald "Rossie" Rosburg (October 21, 1926 – May 14, 2009) was an American professional golfer who later became a sports color analyst for ABC television.

Ed Westfall

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

Johnny Peirson

Following his retirement, Peirson became a prominent broadcast color analyst for the Bruins, first on WBZ radio with Fred Cusick -- with whom as a player he had done a TV demonstration during one of CBS-TV's short-lived weekly NHL telecasts—then on WSBK television, initially with Don Earle and then for many years with Cusick, who had moved from radio to TV.

Mick Mixon

He was formerly a color analyst for the UNC Tar Heel Sports Network, where he was teamed with "The Voice of the Tar Heels", Woody Durham beginning in 1989.

Russ Anber

Russ Anber (born March 27, 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is a boxing analyst on The Sports Network for In This Corner.

Steve Phillips

Phillips was hired as a baseball color analyst for ESPN prior to the 2005 baseball season, and was a regular on the nightly programs Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter.

WEND

He also served as play-by-play announcer for Catawba College football for nearly a decade, and color analyst for Howard Platt for Catawba basketball, and he called the Rowan County high school football game of the week on WRDX.


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Arizona Diamondbacks Radio Networks

On the Spanish-language network, the play-by-play announcer is Oscar Soria and the color Analyst is Miguel Quintana.

Bob Errey

Bob is currently the TV color analyst for the Pittsburgh Penguins broadcasts on Root Sports alongside Paul Steigerwald.

Craig Laughlin

Laughlin has been the television color analyst for Capitals games since 1990, where he currently is paired with Joe Beninati.

Dolph Pulliam

He previously served the color analyst along with Larry Cotlar on KRNT radio, the home of Drake Bulldogs basketball, and as Director of Community Outreach and Development at Drake University.

Doris Burke

Doris Burke (born Doris Sable on January 4, 1965) is a sideline reporter and color analyst for ESPN college basketball, as well as NBA on ESPN and NBA on ABC games.

Jeff Lageman

By 2001, "The Outdoors Show" had moved from an all-sports station (WBWL-AM) to a 50,000 watt news-talk station (WOKV) and soon after, Lageman joined the play-by-play man Brian Sexton in the booth of the Jaguars Radio Network as the color analyst.

John Manuel

Manuel is an expert on college baseball, minor league prospects and the draft, leading to radio and television appearances on ESPN and as a color analyst for USA Baseball and the Durham Bulls.

John Shrader

Shrader joined play-by-play announcer Randy Hahn and color analyst Drew Remenda on FSN Bay Area (now CSN Bay Area) as the San Jose Sharks intermission host and rink-side reporter for two seasons, beginning in 2007.

Mike Durbin

In 1996, Marshall Holman became the new color analyst for ESPN's coverage, while Durbin took over play-by-play duties.

Peter McNab

He was also a TV announcer on NBC as an analyst on NHL on NBC during the 2006 Winter Olympic games in Torino, Italy, and as a color analyst on TNT for the Olympic games in Nagano, Japan.

Peter Tom Willis

Willis worked in the broadcast booth as a color analyst with "the voice of the Seminoles", long time FSU play-by-play announcer Gene Deckerhoff.