Ian Eagle

Ian Eagle joins Tennis Channel's French Open team as an on-air commentator. He joined CBS Sports in March 1998 as a play-by-play announcer for the CBS Television Network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. He has called play-by-play for the Network's coverage of the National Football League since 1998. In addition, Eagle called the Network's high definition television coverage of the 2001 AFC Divisional Playoffs and 2000 AFC Championship Game, as well as the Army-Navy football game for the past four years (2002-05), and the NCAA Track and Field Championships for the past three years (2004-06) and served as the studio host for "U.S. Open Late Night Highlight Show" during the 2004 and 2005 U.S. Open Tennis Championships.

This season marks Eagle's seventh year calling New York Jets' pre-season games on WCBS-TV in New York. During the 2005-06 NBA season he hosted the NBA show "Full Court Press" with Kenny Smith on Sirius Radio. And he is the play-by-play voice of "NBA ‘07" for the Sony PSP video game.

Eagle also served as the blow-by-blow commentator for CBS Sports' coverage of the Showtime Championship Boxing series in 2000. He has served as the play-by-play announcer for the NBA's New Jersey Nets television broadcasts since 1995, after having called play-by-play for radio broadcasts the previous year. Eagle won a 2002 New York Sports Emmy Award for game coverage of the dramatic Nets-Indiana Pacers playoff Game 5. He was the play-by-play radio voice for the NFL's New York Jets in 1997 and also was a reporter for TNT's coverage of the NBA playoffs in 1996. Eagle joined WFAN Radio in New York in 1990 as a producer and debuted as host of his own show in 1992. He hosted Jets pre- and post-game shows on WFAN from 1993 to 1996.

A 1990 graduate of Syracuse University, Eagle was the play-by-play voice of the Orangemen for football, basketball and lacrosse, and was awarded the Bob Costas Award for Outstanding Sportscasting. He lives in Essex Fells, N.J., with his wife, Alisa, and two children.