Betances was born in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan, New York and grew up in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He pitched 8 of his 10 MLB seasons for the Yankees. During his tenure in the Bronx, Betances finished third in American League Rookie of the Year voting in 2014 and was named to the American League All-Star team for four consecutive seasons, from 2014 to 2017. During those four seasons, Betances posted a 2.11 ERA and 14.4 strikeouts per nine innings in addition to 17 wins and 32 saves. In 2014 and 2015 in particular, he pitched to a 1.40 and 1.50 ERA, respectively. In 2018, he became the first reliever in MLB history with five straight seasons of 100 or more strikeouts. He made three postseason appearances with the Yankees (2015, 2017 and 2018). Among Yankee relievers, Dellin ranks 6th all-time in appearances, 13th in saves and 3rd in strikeouts behind David Robertson and Mariano Rivera. Betances pitched for New York Mets in 2020 and 2021, appearing in 15 games in 2020 and one game in 2021. Coming out of Progress High School within the Grand Street High School in Brooklyn, Betances was rated as a top pitching prospect after being named an All-American in 2005 and a member of the Team USA Junior National Team. In 2006, he was drafted in the eighth round of the MLB Draft by the Yankees. He made his Major League debut on September 22, 2011 with the Yankees.

Carter was inducted into the Hall of Fame in August 2024, and his Nets jersey was retired by the team on January 25, 2025. He is the Nets’ third leading all-time scorer. Carter was a member of YES’ team which was nominated for a 2025 New York Emmy for its season-long Nets coverage. In addition to his YES work, he joined NBC Sports’ and Peacock’s NBA team as a studio prior to the 2025-26 season. He had been a studio analyst on TNT’s NBA coverage the previous season. From 2020-23, Carter was an NBA and college basketball studio and game analyst at ESPN, where he also appeared on programs such as NBA Today, Countdown, Get Up and First Take. In addition, he hosted Vince’s Places. While working for ESPN, Carter was also an analyst for Bally Sports Southeast’s Atlanta Hawks telecasts during the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 seasons and for Bally Sports Florida’s Orlando Magic telecasts during the 2022-23 season. Carter was named a McDonald’s All-American in 1995 while at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Fla. He then played three seasons at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helping lead the Tar Heels to the 1997 and 1998 Final Fours. The Golden State Warriors selected him with the fifth overall pick of the 1998 NBA Draft before immediately trading him to the Toronto Raptors, where he played through 2004. Carter’s NBA career spanned 22 years, the longest playing career in NBA history. He won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1998-99. Carter, whose nicknames included “Air Canada” “Half Man, Half Amazing” and “Vinsanity,” was named to the NBA All-Star Game eight times and was a member of the United States Men’s National Basketball team that won a Gold Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In addition to the Raptors and Nets, Carter played for the Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, the Magic and the Hawks. He scored 25,728 points in his career, good for 20th on the NBA all-time list. Off the court, he established the Embassy of Hope Foundation, providing vital assistance to children and their families in New Jersey, Florida and Ontario.

Cone has won five New York Emmy Awards while at YES. He earned two Emmy nominations in 2025, one in the Analyst in the Game category and one as a member of the YES team which was nominated in the Live Sporting Event Season category. From 2022 to 2025, Cone was a game analyst on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball telecasts in addition to his YES duties. In 2019, he collaborated on a book with YES colleague Jack Curry called “Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher,” which was a New York Times best-seller. Cone compiled a 194-126 record, 3.46 ERA and 2,688 strikeouts in his 17-year major league career. He captured the American League Cy Young Award in 1994 and was a five-time All-Star (1988, 1992, 1994, 1997 and 1999). The Kansas City, Mo. native, known for coming up big in critical games, posted an 8-3 post-season record and played on five world championship teams: the 1992 Blue Jays and the 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000 Yankees. The flame-throwing right-hander was drafted by the hometown Kansas City Royals in the third round of the 1981 amateur draft and made his major league debut with the Royals in 1986. He played the next 5½ seasons with the Mets; in 1988, he ran up a 20-3 record, 2.22 ERA and 213 strikeouts, and on October 6, 1991, he struck out 19 Phillies in a game. After short stints with the Blue Jays and the Royals (again), he joined the Yankees in 1995. His finest season in pinstripes was 1998, when he was 20-7 with a 3.55 ERA and 209 strikeouts. A year later, on July 18, 1999, he hurled a perfect game against the Montreal Expos. While with the Yankees from 1995-2000, Cone was 64-40 with a 3.91 ERA and 888 strikeouts. He pitched for Boston in 2001, sat out the 2002 season and pitched briefly for the Mets in 2003 before retiring.

He has won nine New York Emmy Awards at YES, including two in 2023: one in the Commentator/Editorialist category and one for his work as part of YES’ Yankees Pre-Game coverage. He earned three Emmy nominations in 2025 as a member of the YES teams that earned nominations for their Yankees coverage. Curry hosts an exclusive podcast on The Gotham Sports App, Yankees News & Views, that features interviews with Yankees players, additional key team personnel and celebrities. Since November 2005, Curry has been a regular contributor to YES’ Yankees Hot Stove show. His television experience extends back to 1991, when he began contributing to Madison Square Garden Network’s Yankees pre-game show and weekly baseball magazine show. He has also hosted YES’ Yankees Access specials, which give viewers exclusive, off-the-field, behind-the-scenes looks at some of the most popular Yankees players. He has traveled to the Dominican Republic and Taiwan to report on Yankee feature stories, international travel atypical of regional sports networks. While at YES, Curry also hosted JCTV: Jack Curry TV, the innovative YESNetwork.com original series which featured interviews with some of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, and the media. Curry has written or co-written four New York Times best-selling books: The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Team in Baseball History, published in May 2023; he collaborated in 2022 with YES colleague Paul O’Neill on a book entitled A Swing And A Hit; in 2019, he collaborated on a book with another YES colleague, David Cone, called Full Count: The Education Of A Pitcher; and in 2000 he co-wrote a book with Derek Jeter entitled The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams. Curry joined The New York Times in 1987 and became the Yankees beat writer in 1991. He was a national baseball writer at the newspaper from 1998 until December of 2009. While at The Times, Curry authored more than 4,500 articles, covering 18 World Series, 11 All-Star Games, 10 MLB Winter Meetings and 2 World Baseball Classics. The New Jersey native also was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Reporting at The Times in 1999 for co-writing a series on the demise of New York high school sports, and won multiple Publisher Awards at The Times, monthly awards that recognize the best journalism at the paper. Curry has also been the chairman of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. In 2024, Curry was announced as an inductee into the Irish Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2013, Curry received the Broadcast Achievement Award from the New Jersey Sports Writers Association. Also, that year, he was named “Top Sports Analyst” by the New Jersey-based 201 Magazine. Curry is a 1986 graduate of Fordham University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications.

In 2025, Eagle won his record 10th straight New York Emmy, and 11th in 13 years, for Sports Play-by-Play for his Nets work on YES. His Nets broadcast partner Sarah Kustok won the 2020 and 2021 New York Emmy Awards for Sports Analyst, marking those two years as the only times that a broadcast team has won New York Emmys for Sports Play-by-Play and Sports Analyst in the same year. “Bird” has been named New York State Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports Media Association five times: in 2013, 2014 (sharing with WNBC-TV’s Bruce Beck), 2016, 2018 and 2019. He was named National Sportscaster of the Year for 2022 and 2024 by the same organization. In November 2018, Eagle received the Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, his alma mater. Eagle has received Emmy nominations for his Nets play-by-play work on YES for 14 straight years, from 2012 to 2025. He was also nominated in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Earlier, he won New York Emmys for his work on Madison Square Garden Network’s telecast of Game 5 of the Pacers-Nets 2002 NBA First Round playoff series. In 2014, Eagle won the CableFax Program Award for the best host of regional television program (sports or otherwise). Eagle earned National Sports Emmy nominations in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2019 for his NCAA March Madness play-by-play work and in 2015 for his NFL and NCAA March Madness play-by-play work for CBS Sports and Turner Sports. 2024 marked his first season as the Voice of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four. He joined Prime Video’s NBA team as play-by-play man prior to the 2025-26 NBA season. A 1990 graduate of Syracuse, Eagle was the play-by-play voice of the Orangemen in football, basketball and lacrosse, and was awarded the Bob Costas Award for Outstanding Sportscasting. In August 2013, he was inducted into the WAER-FM (Syracuse University) Hall of Fame. In the fall of 2024, he was named the recipient of the Literacy Champion Award by Write on Sports, an organization that helps middle school students from underserved communities develop reading and writing skills and build self-confidence. Eagle joined WFAN as a producer in 1990 and debuted as host of his own show in 1992. The following year, Eagle began hosting pre-game and post-game shows for Jets football on WFAN and was named the Jets radio play-by-play voice for the 1997 campaign. He has been one of the play-by-play voices for the NFL on CBS since 1998 and handles play-by-play for Westwood One Radio’s Thursday Night NFL coverage and its NCAA Tournament Regional Finals coverage. In addition to football, Eagle has called the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament for CBS (and later Turner, as well) for the past 22 years, the Army/Navy football game, boxing, and anchored the “Sportsdesk” and “At the Half” on CBS Sports. Eagle also handled English-language play-by-play for the international telecasts of the NBA Finals in 1995-98 and has worked the Masters and PGA Championships for CBS/Direct TV. Eagle has broadcast the NBA Playoffs for TNT since 2010 and broadcast the NBA Playoffs for NBA-TV from 2003-2008. He and his YES Nets colleague Jim Spanarkel also worked the world feed of the 2013 NBA Finals. Eagle has also handled play-by-play for the NCAA Track and Field Championships on CBS, and the French Open for Tennis Channel. He covered 10 US Tennis Opens for CBS, was the voice for the Sony PSP 2010 NBA video game with Kenny Smith and is the current play-by-play announcer on the video game “NBA Playgrounds.” From 2005-2008, Eagle hosted a variety of shows on SIRIUS Satellite Radio, including “Full Court Press” and ‘The Phil Jackson Show.” Eagle had a role in the 2015 movie Southpaw starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams, and he was a contributor to CBS Sports’ coverage of Super Bowl L and LIII (50 and 53) on the network’s pregame and postgame shows. In 2013, he began hosting the Stars on Sports show on CBS, on which he interviewed entertainers about sports. Among those he has interviewed are Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, LL Cool J and Ron Howard. For 15 years, Eagle co-hosted a sports broadcasting camp for children with fellow sportscaster Bruce Beck. Eagle resides in New Jersey with his wife Alisa.

He was a member of YES’ team, which was nominated for a 2025 New York Emmy Award for its season-long Nets coverage. The younger Eagle currently handles play-by-play duties on NBC Sports’ and Peacock’s NBA coverage while also doing play-by-play on their Big Ten Saturday Night primetime college football telecasts. He called the first-ever NFL game in Brazil, on Peacock in September 2024. Eagle also called one NFL Wild Card game and one Regular Season game on NBC and Peacock in 2023 and called Nickelodeon’s alternative 2024 Super Bowl telecast. The New Jersey native has also handled play-by-play duties for Peacock’s Big Ten Men’s Basketball games since the 2023-24 season. He did play-by-play on NBC Sports’ coverage of the 2024 French Open, including the Men’s and Women’s Singles Finals. In May of 2024, Eagle won a National Sports Emmy Award in the Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent category. Eagle’s NBC Sports and Peacock Olympics experience includes play-by-play for men’s and women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Games and for men’s and women’s 3-on-3 basketball at the 2021 Tokyo Games. Eagle was the radio play-by-play man for the Los Angeles Clippers for four NBA seasons (2019-23) and he called college football on FOX Sports in 2022 and CBS Sports in 2021. He handled play-by-play on Nickelodeon’s NFL alt-casts (primarily post-season) from 2020-22, as well on the network’s 2024 Super Bowl alt-cast. Earlier in his career, Eagle handled college basketball play-by-play on FS1 and worked NBA events for Turner Sports and NBA TV, as well as events on the Tennis Channel. Noah earned a bachelor’s degree in 2019 from Syracuse University, where, as an undergraduate, he called football, men’s basketball and men’s lacrosse games on the student-run WAER Radio, where he was also Sports Director.