YES Network

He hosts the New York Yankees Pre-Game Show and the New York Yankees Post-Game Show for New York Yankees

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

 telecasts, as well as the pregame and postgame shows for New Jersey Nets

New Jersey Nets

The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

 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

Yogi Berra

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra is a former American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career for the New York Yankees...

. 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

Turner Network Television

Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...

 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

Inside the NBA

Inside the NBA is the five-time Emmy Award-winning postgame show for NBA on TNT broadcasts. The program features host Ernie Johnson with analysts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and starting in 2011, they will be joined by Shaquille O'Neal...

on TNT.

Education

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

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

in Los Angeles.

External links

• YES Network Bio