Noah Eagle (born December 11, 1997) is an American sportscaster. The son of sportscaster
Ian Eagle
Ian Eagle ( ; born February 9, 1969) is an American sports announcer. He calls NBA, NFL, and college basketball games on CBS, TNT, and TBS, as well as Brooklyn Nets games on the YES Network and French Open tennis for Tennis Channel. Other ...
, he is a play-by-play broadcaster for
Fox Sports
Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world.
The ''Fox Sports'' name has since been used for other sports media assets. These assets are held mainly by the F ...
and the
Tennis Channel
Tennis Channel is an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. It is devoted to events and other programming related to the game of ...
. At Fox, Eagle calls various sports including the
NFL and college football. He is also the radio voice of the
Los Angeles Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division in the league's Western Conference. The Clipper ...
, and the play-by-play announcer for the
NFL on Nickelodeon.
Prior to joining Fox Sports in 2022, Eagle was the play-by-play announcer for
CBS Sports
CBS Sports is the sports division of the American television network CBS. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on W 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on W ...
#2 broadcasting team for college football.
Early life
Growing up, Eagle intended to follow in his father Ian's footsteps and pursue a career in broadcasting.
A basketball fan, Eagle would shadow his father when he called NBA games.
Growing up, he considered working as a television dentist - in a role similar to
Dr. Oz or
Dr. Phil.
Raised in
Essex Fells, New Jersey
Essex Fells is a borough in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 2,113,[West Essex High School
West Essex High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in North Caldwell. The high school is part of the West Essex Regional School District, which comprises the constituent municipalities of Essex Fells, Fairfield, N ...]
in 2015 and attended
Syracuse University for college, graduating in 2019.
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"West Essex BOE Celebrates Graduates Who've Gone on to Career Success"
TAP into West Essex, March 21, 2021. Accessed December 19, 2022. "Noah Eagle graduated West Essex High School in 2015 and Syracuse University in 2019." At Syracuse, he showed promise as a play-by-play announcer when calling the Orange's basketball, football and lacrosse games.
Eagle graduated from Syracuse in 2019.
Career
In April 2019, Eagle tried out for the Clippers TV play-by-play job, but did not get the role.
However, he was offered the radio play-by-play job for the
Los Angeles Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division in the league's Western Conference. The Clipper ...
, which he began in October 2019.
In 2021, Eagle called his first NFL game for ''
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Group. It ...
'', a simulcast of
CBS
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’s Wild Card playoff game between the
New Orleans Saints
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. Since 1975, the te ...
and
Chicago Bears.
The next year, Eagle called Nickelodeon's broadcast of the NFC Wild Card game between the
San Francisco 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National ...
and
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divi ...
.
Eagle will call Nickelodeon's broadcast of a
Christmas Day
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game between the
Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver. The Broncos compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team is headquar ...
and
Los Angeles Rams.
Eagle's first instance calling an NFL game on network television came in 2022 when he called a Week 5 matchup between the 49ers and the
Atlanta Falcons on
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
, filling in for colleague
Adam Amin, who was covering
postseason baseball for Fox.
Eagle joined
CBS Sports
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in 2021 as the play-by-play broadcaster for their #2 broadcasting team for college football. His role consisted of calling games during the ''SEC on CBS'' doubleheaders and calling select
CBS Sports Network
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games.
Eagle worked in this role during the 2021 season due to
Carter Blackburn
Carter Blackburn (born March 30, 1979) is an American sportscaster. He currently works for CBS Sports after leaving ESPN in 2014.
Early life and education
Blackburn was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Kerrville, in the Texas Hill Country ...
, who had held that role from 2014 to 2015, and again from 2017 to 2020, being on sabbatical.
In the summer of 2021, Eagle worked the play-by-play assignment of
3x3 basketball
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for
NBC Sports' coverage of the
2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
, the first time the sport has been played at the Olympic Games.
Eagle later joined
Fox Sports
Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world.
The ''Fox Sports'' name has since been used for other sports media assets. These assets are held mainly by the F ...
in 2022. He has worked as a play-by-play announcer for their
college basketball coverage and was later named as a play-by-play announcer for their
college football coverage. Eagle has also spent time filling in on
MLB
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games as a studio host for Fox.
On December 17, 2022, Eagle served as the play-by-play announcer for the
2022 Indianapolis Colts-Minnesota Vikings game, which was broadcast on
NFL Network
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. With the Vikings win, by a score of 36–33, in overtime, they came back from being down by 33 points for the biggest comeback in NFL history.
His announcing style takes inspiration from his father and he does so through the use of information-packed analysis and lighthearted humor during the broadcast.
References
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1997 births
Living people
American radio sports announcers
American television sports announcers
People from Essex Fells, New Jersey
Syracuse University alumni
West Essex High School alumni
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Los Angeles Clippers announcers
National Football League announcers