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Free and premium resources for aspiring and professional sports broadcasters

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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

Tell Me I’m Wrong: Toughest Sport to Call

DiscussionsBy Alex Rawnsley

Tell me I’m wrong…but I think that golf is the toughest sport to broadcast. It’s certainly one of the most challenging to produce. In my former career as a technical director for a TV station, I had the opportunity to talk to many sports producers and directors who had covered…

What Questions should you ask a Coach before a game?

Broadcast Prep, Play-by-PlayBy Alex Rawnsley

The pre-game interview. It can be a fantastic addition to a pre-game show or like trying to extract your own wisdom teeth with a pair of pliers. While most coaches have realised in this day and age that the media is an essential part of the job, you’ll still get…

Voice Recorder Comparison: Zoom vs Tascam

Tech & ProductionBy Alex Rawnsley

While some prefer the trusty iPhone or a small pen-like voice recorder, others prefer the heft and features that a bigger model provides. Two popular audio recorders for broadcasters (and film makers incidently) are the Zoom h4n and the Tascam DR-40. With Zoom’s release of an updated model (the h6)…

How to Achieve Great Basketball Prep

Broadcast PrepBy Alex Rawnsley

Today we’re talking preparation, specifically basketball prep. Prep is arguably the single most important aspects of sportscasting. You can be an average play-caller and have good prep and churn out a good broadcast. But a stellar play-caller with poor prep will execute a bad broadcast every single time. Knowing your…

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.