Eli Gold

Eli Gold
Eli Gold in October 2006
Born	(1953-12-15) December 15, 1953 (age 63) Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Occupation	Sportscaster Radio host Author

Eli Gold (born December 15, 1953) is an American sportscaster. Gold is best known as the radio voice for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, along with Tom Roberts, as part of the Crimson Tide Sports Network since 1988. He has also been the host of NASCAR Live on the Motor Racing Network since 1982. He formerly called play-by-play for Arena Football League's coverage on TNN and NBC and currently calls college football and NFL games for Sports USA Radio Network.

Gold was born on December 15, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. He began his broadcasting career in 1972 as a weekend sports reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System.

He called New York home until he was twenty-three years old. He lost his father when he was very young and he says, “Regretfully, I didn’t know him that well”. Gold says that growing up in New York impacted his broadcasting career because there were over two hundred radio stations in the area. He worked at WOR and WNEW, where he learned the business. His high school was not the usual high school that the normal kids go to, instead he went from 7 am until 10:41 AM then he would go to work. In the eighth grade he knew he wanted to be a sportscaster. He began his career in 1972 working as a weekend sports reporter with 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 and was the radio play-by-play announcer for Nashville Predators during the 2006–07 NHL season.