Adam Zucker

Sportscasting biography

Zucker calls football, basketball, lacrosse, and baseball for the CBS Sports Network as well as studio hosting for football, basketball, and baseball. He has also called CBS Sports Spectacular's coverage of the College Home Run Derby. He also hosts Inside College Football and Inside College Basketball for the CBS Sports Network.

Beginning in 2011, he filled in for Tim Brando in the CBS studios while Brando is in the on site game booth with Steve Beuerlein. Zucker does CBS studio hosting for the College World Series, NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Men's and Women's lacrosse championship, and narrates many of the network's other original programs and documents.

Beginning in 2014, he was named studio host for the SEC on CBS, replacing longtime anchor Tim Brando who left for Fox Sports/Fox Sports 1. Beginning in 2015, he is named the studio host of College Basketball on CBS.

Before CBS Sports

Before Zucker was hired by the College Sports Television, he served as a sideline reporter and as an on-site host for football games for the Syracuse Radio Network. He also worked as a sports reporter and sports anchor for local television stations: WBRE-TV and was a sports reporter at WTVH-TV.

Personal life

Zucker is a graduate from Syracuse University. He graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse of Public Communications in 1998 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He is a native of Mountain Lakes and a graduate of Mountain Lakes High School in northern New Jersey. He still lives in northern New Jersey today with his wife, Rachel, and their child.

Zucker is Jewish and supports Jewish American charities.