Tag: Ian Eagle

Noah Eagle to fill in on NBC play-by-play for Notre Dame-Navy

Prepare for a different sound Saturday.

There has been much criticism about the Notre Dame NBC broadcasting team of Jac Collinsworth and Jason Garrett. Many Irish fans would rather new blood had been brought in this season, and they were disappointed to find out nothing had changed. Well, the broadcasting team will in fact be slightly different for at least one game. Chicago Sun-Times sports media columnist Jeff Agrest has tweeted the following regarding the broadcast for the game against Navy:

Noah Eagle, the son of Ian Eagle, is one of the most talented young broadcasters in the industry. Having previously called both the NFL and college football for Fox, CBS and even Nickelodeon, NBC scooped him up for its new Big Ten Saturday night broadcasts. He also does radio radio play-by-play for the Los Angeles Clippers.

If Irish fans want to keep watching college football after Irish games during the day, this will be a nice preview of what they can expect, at least on NBC.

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Vikings draw CBS’s second-best broadcast team

The Vikings will have excellent announcers on Sunday afternoon

When the Minnesota Vikings face off against the New York Jets on Sunday, it will be their second game in the last three weeks on CBS. They are rewarded with the network’s second-best broadcast team.

The Pioneer Press’ Chris Tomasson reported that Ian Eagle, Charles Davis and Evan Washburn will be calling the game.

Tomasson also reported that this will be Davis’ first game with CBS and that he last called a Vikings game back in 2019.

The game will be the national game in the noon slot with the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Cincinnati Bengals in the primetime slot. They will be getting the top broadcasting team of Jim Nantz, Tony Romo and Tracy Wolfson.

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Mind-blowing facts about Jim Nantz and Billy Packer, part of Final Four and college hoops history

Jim Nantz will no longer do play-by-play at the Final Four after 2023. It’s the end of a long era in college basketball, leaving behind lots of truly remarkable facts.

It’s the end of an era in college basketball television.

Jim Nantz, the voice of the Final Four on network television since 1991, will step down from his college basketball play-by-play role at CBS Sports after the 2023 Final Four in Houston. Nantz attended the University of Houston, so next year’s Final Four offers Nantz a chance to leave his coveted seat in a city which means a lot to him. Ian Eagle will replace him at the 2024 Final Four, becoming the new lead voice for CBS-Turner’s NCAA Tournament coverage.

There’s a lot to unpack, and a lot of history to note for the record, in the wake of Nantz’s big decision:

NFL Divisonal Round announcer assignments revealed

The Divisional Round announcer assignments are out for each of the 4 games

The NFL is down to 8 teams and there will be 4 games this weekend. That means the top announce teams will be working while others are home having finished their assignments.

Saturday, January 22

Cincinnati Bengals at Tennessee Titans on CBS (4:30 p.m. ET): Ian Eagle, Charles Davis, Evan Washburn

San Francisco 49ers at Green Bay Packers on FOX (8:15 p.m. ET): Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi

Sunday, January 23

Los Angeles Rams at Tampa Bay Buccaneers on NBC (3 p.m. ET): Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michelle Tafoya, Kathryn Tappen

Buffalo Bills at Kansas City Chiefs on CBS (6:30 p.m.) Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Tracy Wolfson, Jay Feely

The 10 best announcer calls of the NCAA Tournament’s first day

There weren’t any fans in the stands, but Bill Raftery and his CBS co-workers brought the energy with these calls.

Without any fans in the stands, the early games of the NCAA Tournament have lacked a certain energy. We’ve seen buzzer beaters and upsets, but without an audience to erupt in excitement, it just hasn’t been the same viewing experience.

Because of that, there’s even more pressure on CBS’s commentators to fill in the gaps and try to add some energy to the broadcasts. Luckily for college basketball fans, we had some excitable announcers calling the games on Friday.

Jim Nantz, Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery, Kevin Harlan and others provided us with plenty of energy throughout the day. To celebrate that, we’ve picked out the 10 best calls of the day…

CBS signs Ian Eagle to long-term contract

How could CBS signing Ian Eagle to a long-term contract impact its negotiations with Jim Nantz?

CBS has signed Ian Eagle, the voice on their No. 2 NFL announce team to a long-term contract. The move, which is far from a surprise, could have an impact in how another set of negotiations goes for the network.

By locking up Eagle, per a New York Post report, CBS has given itself leverage in upcoming negotiations with No. 1 voice Jim Nantz.

Nantz’ broadcast partner on NFL games, former Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo, landed a 10-season $180M deal prior to this season.

Per the Post:

Nantz currently earns $6.5 million per year. With a schedule that includes the Super Bowl, the Masters and the Final Four over the next three months, he wants to be paid akin to Romo. While he may want “Romo money,” he will have to create “Romo leverage.”

… CBS executives realize that they own the events Nantz wants to broadcast, specifically the network’s vast golf offerings. This might be their greatest leverage.

Still, there has been a money wedge between CBS and Nantz. Nantz has made it clear he wants to be paid as much as Romo, feeling as if he works much more and has been the face of the network for decades.

Eagle will do pregame studio work for Super Bowl LV. The exact terms of Eagle’s new deal are not known, but it is said to be longer than a standard three-year contract.

Did Nickelodeon just change how we watch football?

Could the NFL keep some of the ingenious graphics used by the children’s television station, Nickelodeon?

This afternoons NFL Wildcard game that featured the New Orlean Saints and Chicago Bears broke a barrier of sorts due to their broadcast on Nickelodeon. It was the first of what I expect to be many of, a potential game-changing event for the future of football games on television.

Their broadcast team consisted of four members: former NFL star Nate Burleson, Noah Eagle (son of megabroadcaster Ian) and Nickelodeon star Gabrielle Neveah Green in the booth with Nick star Lex Lumpkin on the sidelines. It wasn’t about this, although it was interesting to hear child stars making their NFL debuts. The game changing aspect was how the children’s station showed some of their graphics.

This was probably the most important one of them all, giving the NFL plenty of marketing ideas for their future games. Keep in mind that previously the NFL has had advertisements on the netting during field goals, but nothing like what Nick did. Imagine the NFL changing out Sponge Bob for a beer sponsor.

At the end of the day, the NFL’s bottom line is about making money and this surely planted at least a semblance of an idea in their heads. That wasn’t all Nick did, the slimezone was a unique added function as well.

We might have just seen history today with this broadcast. Not just in the NFL but at the collegiate level as well. Hat’s off the Nickelodeon and their ingenuity for bringing these elements to an NFL game.

CBS analyst shares his view on Boston Celtics’ last, coming seasons

CBS analyst Ian Eagle recently shared his view on how the Boston Celtics did in 2019-20, and what he expect to see from them next season.

CBS Sports analysts Ian Eagle may broadcast games for the Brooklyn Nets, but he likes what he sees up Interstate 95 in Boston with the Celtics.

With the team he covers poised to enter the contention window next season after stars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving returning from significant injury, he expects to find Boston in the mix as well, as he revealed in a recent talk with Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson in a recent episode of the “Heavy Live with Scoop B” podcast.

And while the 2019-20 season didn’t necessarily end the way Celtics fans had hoped, Eagle doesn’t see it as a failure of any sort.

“I know we live in a world where it’s ‘championship or bust’,” opined the CBS analyst.

“But, with Kemba Walker in his first year, with [Jayson] Tatum, with [Jaylen] Brown developing; with extenuating circumstances of the bubble not knowing how guys are going to react and handle that, with the [Gordon] Hayward injury; they ended up where I thought they were going to be.”

“That’s pretty much how I saw them this season as a conference semi-finalist,” he added.

For Eagle, a frontcourt upgrade is in order for Boston to maximize their postseason odds.

“I like their team, there’s still some places they need to improve … that one spot, the 5-spot … how are they going to play? What’s their style? Are they looking traditional or are they going to change it up a bit and look to maybe getting a little smaller and a little more athletic in that position?”

“That remains to be seen,” observed Eagle.

With the league’s moratorium set to expire soon after the 2020 NBA draft on November 18th, we still have a bit before the Celtics can begin their moves to whip the roster into something more reasonably resembling a contender.

But the wait shouldn’t be a long one — particularly if the league does return to action by its hoped-for Christmas week start date.

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Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller, who …

Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller, who were ubiquitous on TNT seeding games, were given the first round off so they wouldn’t need to spend two consecutive months in the bubble. They’ll be back for later rounds. We’ll miss Harlan’s exuberant call in the first round. Ian Eagle, who teamed with Stan Van Gundy on TNT seeding games, is unavailable to Turner during the first round because he’s also the TV voice of the Brooklyn Nets, who play Toronto in the first round.

Turner Sports announced Tuesday that …

Turner Sports announced Tuesday that Kevin Harlan and Ian Eagle will serve as TNT’s play-by-play voices during the planned resumption of the NBA regular season at Walt Disney World, working alongside analysts Reggie Miller and Stan Van Gundy, respectively. The broadcast teams will call games on-site. Stephanie Ready, Jared Greenberg and Chris Haynes are set to serve as sideline reporters.