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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

The Anatomy of a Goal Call

Play-by-PlayBy Alex Rawnsley

Not long ago, I got an email from a colleague in the BCHL asking about my goal calls. He was looking for ways to change up his goal call, feeling that it was too repetitive particularly when put into a highlight pack. So I thought it might make for an…

How to Be a Sports Broadcaster by Gina Miller

Career Development, MiscBy Alex Rawnsley

It’s the number one biggest question asked by those with a remote interest in being paid to talk about sports for a living….how do I become a sports broadcaster? The difficulty in answering the question is there is no one set path, there’s no one magic solution and there’s no…

Three words you should stop using on air

Play-by-PlayBy Alex Rawnsley

Do you ever find yourself going back over audio or video and finding words you hate, words you should stop using? The average sports broadcast lasts around three hours. The average words spoken per minute is around 150. That means you’re saying around 27,000 (probably more in most sports) per…

Three Secondary Skills To Aid in Job Security

Career DevelopmentBy Alex Rawnsley

A while back, we discussed the importance of secondary skills in sportscasting, the notion that sportscasters could no longer just rely on being the voice of a team, station or school, and that they needed to bring more to the table…especially when it comes to securing full time, broadcast related…

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.