Eli Gold

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. 2Biography 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. 3Early years 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 busines