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Meet the Staff
Bruce Beck [+/-]
Bruce Beck is in his thirteenth year with News 4 New York. He is the station's lead Sports Anchor.
Beck received the 2006 New York Emmy for Outstanding Sports Anchor. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association also elected him New York State Sportscaster of the Year for 2007 and 2008. The versatile sportscaster, who has covered a multitude of events for News 4 New York including Super Bowl XLII and XLIII, the World Series, the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup Finals, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship, the U.S. Open Golf Championship, the NCAA Final Four, the Kentucky Derby and the 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 Olympic Games.
Beck has hosted Mike'd Up, News 4 New York's Sunday Night Sports Show, the Toyota Giants Report with Coach Tom Coughlin, and The Rutgers Report with Coach Greg Schiano. Beck was the live host of the 2009 ING New York City Marathon. He has hosted and contributed to a number of WNBC-TV specials including the Belmont Stakes, the U.S. Open Golf Championship, and "Glory Days," which preceded New York Yankees postseason games. In addition, Beck has hosted the Sun America Sports desk and the All-State Sports Update for NBC Sports, and has served as a sideline reporter for the network's coverage of the NBA and WNBA on NBC.
Beck is the host of the weekly Rutgers University basketball and football shows which air on Sportsnet New York. From 2000 to 2008, he was a studio anchor for NBA-TV.
From 1994 to 1997, Beck hosted "Sportstalk" and "Sports Images" on CN8, the Comcast Network. He was also the play-by-play voice of Atlantic 10 Conference Basketball and Hofstra University Football while calling college basketball games for CBS Sports. He was the host of CBS' coverage of the Hambletonian and the American Championship Harness Series on ESPN. Beck was a play-by-play voice and host of Showtime's Championship Boxing and one of the first to call the blow-by-blow on the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
From 1982 to 1994, Beck was a staff broadcaster with the MSG Network. Among his many duties, he hosted the station's coverage of the Knicks, Rangers, and Yankees. He was the play-by-play announcer for college football and basketball, professional and Golden Gloves boxing, and professional tennis. He hosted the Millrose Games, the Virginia Slims Championship, the National Horse Show, and the Lou Carnesecca Show.
Every summer, Beck, along with Sportscaster Ian Eagle, run a Sports Broadcasting Camp at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Montclair, New Jersey. The camp teaches the fundamentals of broadcasting and features lectures by big name broadcasters.
Each Thanksgiving Beck and his family serve those in need at the St. John's Bread and Life Program, the largest soup kitchen in Brooklyn. Among his other charitable endeavors are PACE (Parents Against Childhood Epilepsy), UJA Federation, the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, the Alan T. Brown Foundation to Cure Paralysis, the March of Dimes Greater New York Chapter, Page Morton Black's Parkinson's Disease Foundation, the Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Center of New York, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Hudson Valley.
Beck was chosen by St. John's University to deliver the 2009 Commencement speech to its Staten Island Campus in May of 2009. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree.
Beck was the recipient of a 1999 New York Emmy Award for outstanding On-Camera Achievement in Sports Reporting for WNBC-TV. Overall, he has received eight New York Sports Emmys, one Mid-Atlantic Sports Emmy, and three national Cable Ace Awards.
A graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, Beck received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978. He currently resides in Scarsdale, New York with his wife and two sons.
Ian Eagle [+/-]
Ian Eagle joined CBS Sports in March 1998 as a play-by-play announcer for the CBS Television Network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. He has called play-by-play for the Network's coverage of the National Football League since 1998. In addition, Eagle called the Network's high definition television coverage of the 2001 AFC Divisional Playoffs and 2000 AFC Championship Game, as well as the Army-Navy football game for the past seven years (2002-08), and the NCAA Track and Field Championships for the past six years (2004-09) and served as the studio host for "U.S. Open Late Night Highlight Show" during the 2004 and 2005. He has called play-by-play and been a contributor for CBS Sports' coverage of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships (2006, 2007, 2008), as well as the French Open for the "Tennis Channel" (2007, 2008, 2009). Eagle also called the Masters® and PGA Championship for Direct TV/CBSSports.com in 2009 and 2008.
This season marks Eagle's 10th year calling New York Jets' pre-season games on WCBS-TV in New York. In 2009, he again will serve as play-by-play announcer for WestwoodOne Radio's Thursday Night NFL Broadcasts. He served in the same role for WestwoodOne during its NCAA Tournament coverage in 2008 and 2009. From 2005-08 he hosted the NBA show "Full Court Press" on Sirius Radio. Eagle also has called the NBA playoffs for NBA-TV the last four years alongside analyst, and CBS Sports colleague, Bill Raftery. And he is once again the play-by-play voice of "NBA ‘09" with Kenny "The Jet" Smith for the Sony PSP video game.
Eagle also served as the blow-by-blow commentator for CBS Sports' coverage of the Showtime Championship Boxing series in 2000. He has served as the play-by-play announcer for the NBA's New Jersey Nets television broadcasts since 1995, after having called play-by-play for radio broadcasts the previous year. Eagle was nominated for a 2008 New York Sports Emmy for Outstanding Play-by-Play announcer and won a 2002 New York Sports Emmy Award for game coverage of the dramatic Nets-Indiana Pacers playoff Game 5. He was the play-by-play radio voice for the NFL's New York Jets in 1997 and also was a reporter for TNT's coverage of the NBA playoffs in 1996. Eagle joined WFAN Radio in New York in 1990 as a producer and debuted as host of his own show in 1992. He hosted Jets pre- and post-game shows on WFAN from 1993 to 1996.
For the past eight years Eagle has hosted, along with Bruce Beck, the "Bruce Beck and Ian Eagle Sportscasters Camp" for kids.
A 1990 graduate of Syracuse University, Eagle was the play-by-play voice of the Orangemen for football, basketball and lacrosse, and was awarded the Bob Costas Award for Outstanding Sportscasting. He lives in Essex Fells, N.J., with his wife, Alisa, and two children.
David Siroty [+/-]
David is the Camp General Manager and handles all behind-the-scenes activities at the camp. He has been involved in college and professional sports since 1981.
The Syracuse University graduate has worked at the Big East Conference, Seton Hall University, the Northeast Conference, CN8-The Comcast Network and Saint Peter’s College. He is currently the national director of public relations for Coldwell Banker Real Estate, LLC.
He has taught courses on the business of sports at St. John’s University and Seton Hall and works on New Jersey Nets television broadcasts. He is the author of The Hit Men and the Kid Who Batted Ninth about baseball stars Mo Vaughn, Craig Biggio, John Valentin and Marteese Robinson.
Dave Popkin [+/-]
Veteran sportscaster Dave Popkin will serve as Camp Director. Popkin has been a college sports play-by-play announcer for ESPNU and ESPN360.com for the last four years, has served as a radio color commentator and play-by-play announcer for Seton Hall University men's basketball on WABC 770 AM for the last seven years, and has been the Voice of Northeast Conference Basketball on MSG and other regional sports networks for the last ten years. Dave has also called soccer and hockey for MSG Varsity. He is a previous TV play-by-player for the Atlantic 10 Basketball Network and hosted the Seton Hall Basketball Show with Coach Louis Orr on the YES Network.
Popkin spent 12 seasons calling minor league baseball including: CN8’s Next Generation package and on radio with the Iowa Cubs (AAA), El Paso Diablos (AA), Newark Bears, and Sioux City Explorers. He also announced a wide variety of sports for CN8 for all 12 years of the channel’s existence.
The Nutley, NJ resident is a 1993 graduate of the University of Miami (FL) where he served as the play-by-play voice of Hurricanes baseball, football, and basketball.
Mike Quick [+/-]
When it comes to high school sports on television, no one does it better than Mike Quick. Mike is the host of "A Quick Sixty", a weekly talk show on MSG Varsity. He has hosted "High School Sports Weekly" on Madison Square Garden Network from 1997 to 2010. Mike is so wired into the area high school sports that many prep stars such as - Shaheen Holloway, Ron Artest and Chris Simms - made their college choices public on his show. Mike has been a frequent contributor on MSG SportsDesk and handled color commentary on MSG's high school basketball and football action for many years.
Although he is well known for his on-air work, Mike gained respect from industry insiders for his behind-the-scenes activities after he joined MSG Network in 1987. He started as a senior reporter, field producer and associate producer for the "Coca-Cola High School Sports Week" show and worked in that capacity with hosts Greg Gumbel and Al Trautwig. His efforts led to several New York Film Festival awards and a New York Emmy in 1988 in the "Best Informative Series" category.
Mike, who has also worked on such MSG shows as the "St. John's Report" and Yankees baseball, was nominated for a 1995 New York Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sports Programming" for a feature he did on Gil McDougald.
Mike is a graduate of Sacred Heart University who broke into broadcasting at News 12 of Connecticut in 1986. At News 12, he worked as a camera man before doing his first on-air stint as a sideline reporter for high school basketball and football telecasts.
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