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 announcing experiences include Army–Navy football games, boxing, and NCAA track and field for CBS. Early life and education Eagle was born to entertainers Jack Eagle and Monica Maris. Jack, a former "Catskills comedian" and commercial actor, was best known for portraying "Brother Dominic" and "Mr. Cholesterol" in Xerox and Fleischmann's margarine television commercials respectively in the 1970s. Maris was a singer. Eagle graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1990. He was in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. Career Early career While at Syracuse, Eagle joined WJPZ his freshman year and announced women’s basketball games at the Carrier Dome. In his sophomore year, he was given more opportunities to call high-profile Syracuse Orange games on WAER, a student run radio station. He also joined UUTV (now CitrusTV), to gain on-camera experience. Outside the campus, Eagle interned with then-recent graduate Mike Tirico at WTVH in Syracuse for three years. He hosted 10 shows during his senior year. Following his graduation in 1990, Eagle began working for WFAN Radio in New York City as a producer. In 1992, WFAN gave him his own show (Bagels and Baseball). In 1993, Eagle was given pregame and postgame duties for the Jets. 1994 saw Eagle's first year as a Nets play-by-play radio announcer. A year later, he was made a TV announcer for SportsChannel, which later became Fox Sports Net New York (now MSG Plus). In 1997, WFAN made Eagle play-by-play announcer for Jets games. Later television and radio career Eagle joined CBS in 1998 doing announcing work for NFL and NCAA basketball. He continues to serve these roles today. In 2010, he joined Dan Fouts to make up the number three broadcast team for CBS' NFL coverage. The pair was elevated to the number two team behind Jim Nantz and Phil Simms in the 2014 season. After Fouts parted ways with CBS, and with the NFL’s playoff expansion, which included CBS gaining rights to an extra playoff game, during the 2020 offseason, the network paired him with former Fox analyst Charles Davis, and the duo now call one of CBS’s Wild Card games in years