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Jack Edwards (sportscaster)

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Jack Edwards
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Edwards in 2006
Born1957 (age 65–66)
Alma materUniversity of New Hampshire
Years active1980s–present
SpouseLisa Kraus
Sports commentary career
Team(s)
Genre(s)Play-by-play
SportsIce hockey, association football
Employer

Jack Edwards (born 1957)[1] is an American sports commentator. Since 2005, he has provided play-by-play commentary for Boston Bruins games on NESN television. From 1991 to 2003, he worked for ESPN as an anchor for their sports news program SportsCenter, as well as a play-by-play commentator for their NHL, MLS, Little League Baseball, and 2002 FIFA World Cup broadcasts. Edwards provided commentary for the Konami game MLS Extra Time 2002.

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Sports commentator

Sports commentator

In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator provides a real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was the first medium for sports broadcasts, and radio commentators must describe all aspects of the action to listeners who cannot see it for themselves. In the case of televised sports coverage, commentators are usually presented as a voiceover, with images of the contest shown on viewers' screens and sounds of the action and spectators heard in the background. Television commentators are rarely shown on screen during an event, though some networks choose to feature their announcers on camera either before or after the contest or briefly during breaks in the action.

Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team has been in existence since 1924, making them the third-oldest active team in the NHL, and the oldest to be based in the United States.

ESPN

ESPN

ESPN is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

SportsCenter

SportsCenter

SportsCenter (SC) is a daily sports news television program that serves as the flagship program and brand of American cable and satellite television network ESPN. The show covers various sports teams and athletes from around the world and often shows highlights of sports from the day. Originally broadcast only once per day, SportsCenter now has up to twelve airings each day, excluding overnight repeats. The show often covers the major sports in the U.S. including basketball, hockey, football, and baseball. SportsCenter is also known for its recaps after sports events and its in-depth analysis.

National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ice hockey league in the world, and is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. The NHL is the fifth-wealthiest professional sport league in the world by revenue, after the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the English Premier League (EPL).

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada—since the 2023 season. The league is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.

Little League Baseball

Little League Baseball

Little League Baseball and Softball is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, that organizes local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the United States and the rest of the world.

2002 FIFA World Cup

2002 FIFA World Cup

The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea and Japan, with its final match hosted by Japan at International Stadium in Yokohama.

Broadcasting career

Early career

Edwards started as a play-by-play announcer for the University of New Hampshire hockey team.[2] He then moved on to play-by-play and sports anchor positions at WGIR radio and WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire.[3] During the early 1980s, he worked as a talk radio host for WRKO in Boston and as a weekend anchor at WJAR-TV in Providence.[3] He then moved to a sports reporter position at WCVB-TV in Boston.[2] While at WCVB-TV, Edwards also served as a freelance play by play announcer for ESPN. Among the events he called were the Davis Cup finals and Frozen Four.[4][5] He also served as a reporter for ABC's coverage of alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics.[6]

In 1988, Edwards became the weekend sports anchor for Boston's WNEV-TV/WHDH-TV.[7] While working for the then-CBS affiliate, Edwards also called some events for the network, including the US Open and the 1991 Olympic Winterfest.[3][8]

ESPN

In 1991, Edwards joined ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor and reporter.[2] Edwards also did announcing for Little League baseball from 1995 to 2002, the X Games in 1996, ESPN National Hockey Night from 1999 to 2003, and soccer, including coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.[3]

Post-ESPN

In 2003, Edwards joined College Sports Television, a newly launched speciality cable sports channel.[9] Edwards also became play-by-play announcer for Chicago Fire soccer broadcasts on Fox Sports Net Chicago.[10]

Boston Bruins

Edwards began calling Boston Bruins games during the 2005–06 NHL season for NESN, handling the road games while Dale Arnold covered the home games.[3] At the start of the 2007–08 NHL season, Edwards began calling all Bruins games and has been the team's local play-by-play commentator since then. He received a 2011 Stanley Cup Championship ring for his play-by-play work with the Bruins.[11]

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New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey

New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey

The New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents the University of New Hampshire. The Wildcats are a member of Hockey East. They play at the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, New Hampshire.

WGIR (AM)

WGIR (AM)

WGIR is a commercial AM radio station in Manchester, New Hampshire with a news/talk radio format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WGIR's studios and offices are on Foundry Street in Manchester. Much of the programming and news, but not the commercials, can be heard on co-owned WQSO 96.7 MHz in Rochester, serving the New Hampshire Seacoast.

Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and in northern New England, a region comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 115,644.

Talk radio

Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. They may feature monologues, dialogues between the hosts, interviews with guests, and/or listener participation which may be live conversations between the host and listeners who "call in" or via voice mail. Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producers to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, to attract advertisers.

Boston

Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. The city boundaries encompass an area of about 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Worcester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States.

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Located near the Massachusetts state line, it is the county seat of Providence County, the most populous county in the state. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River, at the head of Narragansett Bay.

WCVB-TV

WCVB-TV

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Davis Cup

Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from over 140 competing countries. It is described by the organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis", and the winners are referred to as the World Champions. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. By 2023, 155 nations entered teams into the competition.

1988 Winter Olympics

1988 Winter Olympics

The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Calgary 1988, was a multi-sport event held from February 13 to 28, 1988, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to be held for 15 days, like the counterpart Summer Olympic Games. The majority of the contested events took place in Calgary itself. However, the skiing events were held west of the city at the Nakiska ski resort in Kananaskis Country and the Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park in the town of Canmore.

CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global.

US Open (tennis)

US Open (tennis)

The US Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday. The tournament is of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in August 1881. It is the only Grand Slam that was not affected by cancellation of World War I and World War II or interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

SportsCenter

SportsCenter

SportsCenter (SC) is a daily sports news television program that serves as the flagship program and brand of American cable and satellite television network ESPN. The show covers various sports teams and athletes from around the world and often shows highlights of sports from the day. Originally broadcast only once per day, SportsCenter now has up to twelve airings each day, excluding overnight repeats. The show often covers the major sports in the U.S. including basketball, hockey, football, and baseball. SportsCenter is also known for its recaps after sports events and its in-depth analysis.

Personal life

Edwards is married to Lisa Kraus.[12] They live in Simsbury, Connecticut.[13]

Source: "Jack Edwards (sportscaster)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 27th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Edwards_(sportscaster).

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References
  1. ^ a b Viles, Taylor (May 8, 2019). "Once a fan, now an announcer: Jack Edwards comes full circle". The 1851 Chronicle. Lasell University. Retrieved July 28, 2022. Born in Illinois in 1957, Edwards' first memory of sports goes back to when he was four years old and his father carried him into the Northwestern football stadium.
  2. ^ a b c "Boston Bruins On Television & Radio". Boston Bruins. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e "NESN hires Jack Edwards as Bruins road play-by-play announcer". NESN. September 26, 2005. Archived from the original on March 5, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  4. ^ Craig, Jack (December 15, 1985). "A Pitch for Sunday Baseball". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Newspaper.
  5. ^ McAdam, Sean (March 21, 1986). "TV/Radio Sports: Pats likely to play 2 games in prime time next season". The Providence Journal. Providence Journal/Evening Bulletin.
  6. ^ Craig, Jack (March 4, 1988). "Thanks to the Job Jack Edwards Did in Calgary ... His Star is Rising". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Newspaper.
  7. ^ Craig, Jack (April 10, 1988). "Edwards Cashing in at Ch. 7". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Newspaper.
  8. ^ Isaacs, Stan (September 1, 1989). "USA Coverage of the Open: More is Better". Newsday. Newsday, Inc.
  9. ^ Quindt, Fritz (April 14, 2003), "Static", The Sporting News, vol. 227, no. 15, p. 10
  10. ^ "Jack Edwards Joins Fire Broadcasts". Major League Soccer. February 25, 2003. Archived from the original on July 15, 2003. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  11. ^ Hardacker, Jonathan (October 6, 2011). "Jack Edwards Thrilled to Receive Stanley Cup Ring, See Bruins Raise Banner". NESN. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014.
  12. ^ Edwards, Jack [@RealJackEdwards] (February 9, 2015). "My wife Lisa @LAKEdwards is covering Hernandez murder trial as a producer for FoxSports1 & did a radio summary focbsloc.al/173RYyg" (Tweet). Retrieved May 13, 2020 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ Doyle, Bill (November 16, 2012). "Tuning In: Jack Edwards pessimistic about NHL solution". Worcester Telegram and Gazette. Archived from the original on November 21, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
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Preceded by
Phil Schoen
MLS Cup play-by-play announcer
20002001
Succeeded by

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