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Sports Quiz
Sportscasting: Special Edition
We already did one quiz on Jewish sportcasters, but we found enough for a whole ’nother one! See if you can combine your reporting skills with your sports knowledge, like a real-life sportscaster does, and score some high ratings!
1. Suzyn Waldman is the first woman to call plays and provide color commentary on major league baseball games, both on TV and radio! Reporting on the Yankees, she also helped end the infamous feud between Yogi Berra and George Steinbrenner. First, she was a Broadway singer! She has brought those worlds togther by singing _______ at the beginning of many ballgames:
2. In 2009, Len Berman ended his 27-year radio career with WNBC. That year also marks his 30th year as a radio broadcaster. He created the Today Show spot “Spanning the World,” showing cool sports from everywhere! Now, you can follow Len online, when he posts the “five most interesting sports stories of the day” every day in his:
3. Rich Eisen broadcasts for the NFL Network, which covers pro football 24-7 . He covered baseball for ESPN, interviewing a retiring Mark McGwire. And he covered championship tennis for CBS. He’s also athletic himself, running the 40-year dash in 6.2 seconds… while wearing his:
4. Roy Firestone started in Miami, moved to LA, and is now nationwide. He hosted ESPN’s interview program Up Close. Now, he hosts two sports-interview programs online, for HDNet and AOL. A 7-time Emmy winner, Roy has appeared on:
5. Dick Stockton calls pro football, baseball, and basketball for FOX and Turner. He started called Boston basketball, then added that city’s baseball team. Lucky for him, because while he was covering the 1975 World Series, he met his future wife, another sportscaster! Another great moment came when he called the 1994 Gold Medal win by Olympian Dan Janssen in this fast, icy race:
6. Max Kellerman calls boxing bouts for HBO, and used to for ESPN and Spike. He’s also been on radio, including XM satellite radio. He’s very active in Jewish charities and even speaks Yiddish! Max’s show on Fox Sports was called I, Max, after the movie theaters. Speaking of movies, Max played a sportscaster in a boxing movie with Sylvester Stallone called:
7. Bonnie Bernstein has been ESPN (on and off) since 1995, starting with the Bulls second championship streak and the World Series! Then she covered a five straight Super Bowls, including some for radio and TV at the same time! A gymnast herself in college, she covered championships in that sport. For CBS, she reported on college basketball, tennis, track and field, figure skating, horse racing and pro football. Whew! Today, she is a substitute host for:



8. Excuse me! Tony Kornheiser’s show on ESPN is called Pardon the Interruption, and is that network’s best-rated talk show; he also was an analyst for Monday Night Football. He also writes sports columns like Bandwagon for such big-deal papers as The Washington Post and The New York Times and has done radio. One of his books was turned into the TV show Listen Up!, in which Tony was played by a Jewish Seinfeld actor who is bald like him:
9. After playing hockey in college, Billy Jaffe captained the US team in Israel for the Maccabiah Games, taking the silver! He now comments professional hockey games and reports on the sport for Versus. Billy has done commentary on this city’s teams:
10. "The Amazing" Bill Mazer moved from Kiev, Ukraine, when he was 1 year old. He’s been in sportscasting for 60 years! He’s on the radio now, but on network TV, Bill covered pro basketball and Stanley Cup hockey, then football and even golf. For 20 years, he hosted Sports Extra. But first, in 1964, Bill hosted the first-ever sports call-in show. Listeners challenged him with questions about all sports. He got his nickname when he answered one about Russian weightlifters, and someone said:

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