Chris Berman


Christopher James Berman , also known by the nickname Boomer, is an American sportscaster. He has anchored SportsCenter, Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown, U.S. Open golf, the Stanley Cup Finals, and other programming on ESPN and ABC Sports. Berman calls playbyplay of select Major League Baseball games for ESPN. In 2012, he called playbyplay for the Monday Night Football game between the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders with color commentator Trent Dilfer and sideline reporter Rachel Nichols.

Berman was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Peggy Shevell , who worked as a reporterresearcher for Time magazine, and James Keliner Berman, a corporate executive vice president. Berman grew up in Irvington, New York. He was raised Jewish. During his childhood, he went to Camp Winnebago in Fayette, Maine. He enrolled at the Hackley School in 1970, and graduated Brown University in 1977 with a degree in history, where he was the sports director of the schools radio station, WBRU.

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