Rich Eisen
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Rich Eisen (born June 24, 1969), is an American television journalist who is currently the host of the NFL Network show, NFL Total Access. He also works as a play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, in addition to serving as the anchor for the network's weeknight (and late-night) highlights show during the tournament.
Before working for the NFL Network, he worked for the Staten Island Advance, the Chicago Tribune, CBS News, and ESPN. It was at ESPN and SportsCenter where he received the most fame; He was part of a duo with Stuart Scott, and became well-known for his humor, most notably his impressions of Atlanta Braves play-by-play announcer Skip Caray. He started at ESPN in 1996 and left in 2003 for the NFL Network. Before starting work at ESPN, he was sports anchor and reporter at KRCR-TV in Redding, California from 1994 to 1996.
Rich has also done work on VH1's I Love the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Rich was a 1990 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he was an editor at Michigan Daily and a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Eisen also earned a master's degree in journalism from Medill at Northwestern University. On NFL Total Access, Eisen often boasts his pride for Michigan when interviewing NFL players whom also graduated from Michigan or jokingly taunts rivals from Notre Dame and Michigan State.
During the 2005 NFL Scouting Combine, Rich ran the 40 yard dash in a suit on NFL Total Access at the NFL Scouting Combine, and posted a time of 6.7 seconds. In 2006, he ran it again in a suit, and cut off half a second of his time, reducing it to 6.2 seconds.
On the March 27, 2006 episode of NFL Total Access, which aired at the Owners Meeting in Orlando, Florida, Rich jokingly announced his candidacy for NFL Commissioner (since incumbent Paul Tagliabue announced his retirement) to Adam Schefter on the "Around the League" segment of the show. Schefter did a favor for Eisen by lobbying for him with the owners. When Eisen broke news of Roger Goodell's hiring in August, he acted as if he was about to cry.
Eisen is married to ABC Sports college football sideline reporter Suzy Shuster.
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