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Free and premium resources for aspiring and professional sports broadcasters

Created by sportscasters, for sportscasters.

Sportscaster Life provides free and premium resources for sports broadcasters all over the world to improve their talents, develop new skills and become well-rounded members of the sports media community.

Sportscaster Scorebooks

Designed by sportscasters, for sportscasters. Scorebooks specifically made for play-by-play announcers to easily track, score and recap their games without losing focus on the action. Available for baseball, hockey, football and basketball broadcasters.

Feature Articles

Dealing with Bad Injuries On Air

Play-by-PlayBy Alex Rawnsley

In the light of Gordon Hayward’s ankle injury on national television to essentially open the NBA season, the topic of injuries is front and centre in a lot of sportscasters minds. Injuries are common place in sport. Most sports are at least semi-contact, and with that comes the likelihood of someone…

Handling breaking news on the air

Play-by-PlayBy Alex Rawnsley

On Saturday October 27th, 2012, I was broadcasting a game between my team and a divisional rival on the road. The game itself wasn’t overly noteworthy, a 1-1 score late in the second period. However my focus quickly turned from the action on the ice to the breaking news developing…

Positivity in Play-by-Play

Play-by-PlayBy Mike Keeley

I grew up a fan of the Chicago Cubs and Buffalo Sabres, so it goes without saying that my childhood sports fandom was full of disappointment and not a lot of positivity. Until 2016, the Cubs were the poster-children of “here we go again.” Every time they gave their fans a…

Commentator Curse Denies Milestone

DiscussionsBy Alex Rawnsley

You’ve probably heard about superstitious broadcasters refusing to comment on pending perfect games or super-close shutouts…in fact it was a topic on a recent Voice Behind the Voice podcast where host Sean Aronson spoke with Dave Sims of the Seattle Mariners and the topic came up (for the record Dave is…

Why Use Our Scorebooks?

Sportscaster Life offers a full suite of scorebooks specifically designed for sports broadcasters.

Each scorebook is created by sportscasters, for sportscasters and are the result of a collective decades worth of experience calling a wide variety of sports.

Whether a seasoned pro, or new to the industry, Sportscaster Life’s scorebooks provide a quick, seamless way to track the game you’re calling…while keeping your focus on the game you’re calling .

Scorebook Special Features

Every Sportscaster Life scorebook comes with a dedicated, refined design packed full of special features designed to help sportscasters call their best game.