Bob Lorenz

Robert "Bob" Lorenz is the primary studio host on the YES Network.

YES Network

He hosts the New York Yankees Pre-Game Show and the New York Yankees Post-Game Show for New York Yankees telecasts, as well as the pregame and postgame shows for New Jersey Nets cablecasts. Lorenz also hosts other shows on YES, including Yankees Hot Stove, a show that tracks the offseason movement of the Yankees and the rest of the teams in MLB. He has done play-by-play of Staten Island Yankees games and, in 2008, began working play-by-play on Yankees spring training games, which he continued in March 2009. During the 2010 season, Lorenz worked play-by-play for the 1st time during in-season games against the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners. Lorenz also writes a behind-the-scenes studio blog for the network's website, Yesnetwork.com, entitled The Blob. ("It's a blog...it's Bob...it's The Blob"). He can also be found on Twitter (@boblorenz). Lorenz previously hosted Yogi and a Movie, where he watched baseball-related movies with Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra. In addition, Lorenz for 6 years hosted This Week in Football, a show focusing on the New York Giants and New York Jets as well as the rest of the NFL. And he has been a fill-in host on the interview show CenterStage.

CNN

Lorenz was formerly an anchor on CNN Sports Illustrated. Also he worked for TBS and TNT hosting various sporting event studio shows. Lorenz hosted CNN's weekly baseball show, CNN's College Football Preview, College Basketball Preview, College Coach's Corner, and CNN's NFL Preview. He was also a back-up host on Inside the NBA on TNT.

Education

Lorenz holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

External links

• YES Network Bio