Gary Miller (sportscaster)

Gary Miller (born October 31, 1956) is an American sportscaster and radio host.

Miller graduated in the same high school class, in Naperville, Illinois, as former CNN news anchor Paula Zahn.

He has a bachelor's degree in communications at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and was the sports director at the campus radio (WSIU (FM)) and television (WSIU-TV) stations.

From 1978–82, he was the Sports Director at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia. Before Miller came to ESPN, he spent eight years at CNN and Headline News as part of their sports coverage.

From 1990 to 2004, Miller worked at ESPN. He was an anchor at SportsCenter, the host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight, and the last host of the sports interview show Up Close before it was canceled in 2001. Miller also occasionally did play-by-play of Major League Baseball games, and was the primary dugout reporter on Monday Night baseball broadcasts, as well as ESPN Daygame. Other play-by-play assignments during this period included games of the College World Series and the Little League World Series.

Miller appeared on Dan Patrick's radio show on Nov. 30, 2007, where Patrick revealed to his audience that a blooper tape exists of Miller butchering a soccer breakdown during the 1994 World Cup. On the tape, Miller not only mispronounces the name of soccer's governing body, FIFA, but also struggles with the pronunciations of many players, notably that of Cameroon national player Rigobert Bahanag Song and Italian player Gianluca Pagliuca.

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