Al Trautwig
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Al Trautwig is a commentator with the MSG Network, NBC and Versus. He does the pre-game and post-game shows for the New York Knicks and New York Rangers, as well as fill-in play-by-play for both teams. Notably, he now anchors coverage of the Tour de France since 2004 (he had previously covered the Tour for ABC when he worked for them in the 1980s), the Olympics, and NBC's coverage of the Arena Football League. In 2005 and 2006, he has also co-anchored USA Network's coverage of the US Open tennis tournament. Trautwig also had a cameo in the movie Cool Runnings as an announcer for the bobsled competition.
The 2000 New York Sportscaster of the Year, Trautwig has covered the last eight Olympic games, and has won New York Sports Emmmys for his coverage of the Yankees, Knicks, and Rangers.
In 2006, he hosted the new MSG show called Al Trautwig's MSG Vault, which featured vintage and sometimes discovered lost footage of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
In the 1980s Trautwig hosted USA Network's coverage of the National Hockey League; one off-beat feature that he did was to interview a water fountain.
In addition to his current duties, at the beginning of the 2006 football season Trautwig became a radio host as well, hosting the radio version of NBC's Football Night in America for Westwood One, which co-produces the show (called NBC NFL Sunday) with the network. However, Trautwig left the show in the middle of the season.
Trautwig was a stick-boy for the New York Islanders in their early days in the NHL and a ball boy for the New York Nets when they played in the ABA.
Trautwig was one of the original hosts for Classic Sports Network when it was founded in 1996.
