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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

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…

Five Ways a Broadcaster Can Kickstart Their Career

Career DevelopmentBy Alex Rawnsley

Editors Note: This article was submitted to Sportscaster Life by John Vicari, a High School Senior and broadcaster looking to pursue a career in sportscasting. If you’re interested in submitting an article to Sportscaster Life, please click here. I’m like many of you…a broadcaster first bit by the broadcasting bug…

Tell Me I’m Wrong: Silence is Golden

DiscussionsBy Alex Rawnsley

Tell me I’m wrong, but this might be the most ‘perfect’ game winning call in the history of sportscasting. And it’s because of silence. The call comes from the Championship game of the NCAA’s Women’s National Championship between Notre Dame and Mississippi State. A game winning shot from Arike Ogunbowale…

Quick Tip: Automatically Highlight your Key Stats

Tech & ProductionBy Alex Rawnsley

In this quick tip video, I show you how to use conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel to highlight key statistics in several different fashions. It’s a useful technique when looking at large amounts of information.

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.