Sports commentator There are however exceptions to this — most of the United Kingdom's leading cricket and snooker commentators are former professionals in their sports, while the former Formula One racing commentator Murray Walker had no formal journalistic training and only limited racing experience of his own. In the United States, George "Pat" Summerall, a former professional kicker, spent most of his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer. Although the combination of a play-by-play announcer and a color commentator is standard , in the past it was much more common for a broadcast to have no analysts and just have a single
Sports commentator called the "studio host". During their shows, the presenter/studio host may be joined by additional analysts or pundits, especially when showing highlights of various other matches. Various sports may have different commentator roles to cover situations unique to that sport. American football, for example, regularly employs "rules analysts" in its broadcasts; usually a former referee, a rules analyst explains penalties and controversial calls and dissects instant replay reviews to predict whether a call will or will not be overturned. In North American English, "sportscaster" is a general term for any type of commentator in a sports broadcast. It may also