Eli Gold (born 1953) is a sportscaster, best known as the radio voice (since 1988) of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team along side former Alabama and NFL quarterback Ken Stabler as a part of the Crimson Tide Sports Network, and as host (since 1982) of NASCAR Live on the Motor Racing Network. Gold also performs radio play-by-play for the Nashville Predators hockey team, anchors NBC Sports' Arena Football League coverage and provides radio play-by-play for the National Football League. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... A sportscaster is an announcer on radio or television who specializes in reporting or commenting on sports events. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. ... The term Crimson Tide is most often used in association with the athletic teams at the University of Alabama. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Kenny The Snake Stabler (born December 25, 1945) is a former National Football League quarterback who played quarterback at the University of Alabama and for the Oakland Raiders (1970-1979); and for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints (1980-1984). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Motor Racing Network (MRN) is the radio broadcasting operation of NASCAR. It broadcasts coverage of most major NASCAR races at the top three levels of NASCAR: the NEXTEL Cup, the Busch Series and the Craftsman Truck Series. ... Play-by-play, in broadcasting, is a North American term and means the reporting of a sporting event with a voiceover describing the details of the action of the game in progress. ... The Nashville Predators are a professional ice hockey team based in Nashville, Tennessee. ... NBC Sports logo NBC Sports is a division of NBC, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. ... The Arena Football League (AFL) (not to be confused with The Australian Football League) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... For other uses of National Football League, see National Football League (disambiguation). ...

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. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) was an American radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... The Eastern Hockey League was a minor professional ice hockey league that was known as the EHL. // Eastern Amateur Hockey League (1933-1953) The league was founded in 1933 as the Eastern Amateur Hockey League (EAHL). ... The North American Hockey League (NAHL) and the defunct America West Hockey League merged in 2003 to form a 21-team Junior A league, sanctioned by USA Hockey. ... Southern Hockey League can refer to two different professional ice hockey leagues. ... For other leagues with the same name, see Central Hockey League (disambiguation). ... NHL redirects here. ... The 1979-80 NHL season was the 63rd season of the National Hockey League. ... The St. ... KDNL-TV ABC30 is the ABC television affiliate in St. ...

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. Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam, The Ham Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Jefferson, Shelby  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area    - City  151. ... The Birmingham Bulls were a hockey team based out of Birmingham, Alabama that played in the World Hockey Association. ... World Hockey Association logo The World Hockey Association (French: Association Mondiale de Hockey) was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979. ... WERC is an AM radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... WBRC TV, channel 6, FOX6 is the Fox O&O Station in the Birmingham/Anniston/Tuscaloosa, Alabama television market. ... WJOX is an AM radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama. ... Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam, The Ham Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Jefferson, Shelby  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area    - City  151. ...

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. The Birmingham Barons are a minor league baseball team based in Birmingham, Alabama. ... Southern League may mean: Southern League (baseball) for minor league baseball in the United States Southern League (football) for the semi-professional and amateur football league in England often known as the Dr. Martens League Southern League (ice hockey), a former top-flight ice hockey league in southern England. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... The University of Alabama at Birmingham (also known as UAB) is a public, coeducational university located in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The university is part of the three-member University of Alabama System, which also includes the main University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama in Huntsville... // History The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) was formed in 1959 by a local restaurant owner, Pete DiMizio, to honor regional sportscasters and sportswriters whom he had met at the Greensboro Open Golf Tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... Front of UPI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. UPI redirects here. ...

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. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...

Gold currently resides in Birmingham with his wife, Claudette, and his daughter, Elise.

According to Kenny Wallace of St. Louis station KMOX-AM, Gold "is one of the most recognizable voices in NASCAR."^[1] General Information KMOX is an AM radio station broadcasting in St. ...

Books

• Gold, Eli (2005). Crimson Nation: The Shaping of the South's Most Dominant Football Team. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press. ISBN 1-4016-0190-1. 

References

• Bio at Footballspeakers.com
• capsule bio at RollTide.com