Mike Crispino is an American

United States

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 sportscaster

Sportscaster

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 who currently serves as the radio play-by-play announcer for the New York Knicks

New York Knicks

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 as well as host of the MSG Network

MSG Network

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's golf show, The Road to the Barclays. Crispino is also the lead play by play announcer for St. John's Red Storm

St. John's Red Storm

The St. John's Red Storm is the nickname used for the 16 varsity athletic programs of St. John's University. St. John's 16 NCAA Division I teams compete in the Big East Conference, with the exception of the fencing and lacrosse teams, which compete in the ECAC...

 Men's Basketball team on WEPN

WEPN

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Crispino began his career in 1984 at WRCH

WRCH

WRCH is a radio station in the Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. area and broadcasts at 100.5 FM with an Adult contemporary format. Its transmitter is located on Rattlesnake Mountain with antenna on the WTIC-TV tower, with a backup transmitter in "Radio Park" behind the Connecticut School of Broadcasting...

 Radio and WVIT-TV in Hartford. From 1988 to 1992, Crispino was the sports director of WLVI-TV

WLVI-TV

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 in Boston. There he called Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics

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 games during the 1989-1990 season and New England Patriots

New England Patriots

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 pre-season games in 1992. Crispino's sports department was named the "Best in New England" by the Associated Press

Associated Press

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 in 1989 and 1990. From 1988-92, he called the play-by-play for college basketball games on ESPN

ESPN

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 and SportsChannel, while also calling college football

College football

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, boxing

Boxing

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, baseball

Baseball

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, and lacrosse

Lacrosse

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 for the New England Sports Network

New England Sports Network

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. Crispino also hosted a talk show at WEEI

WEEI

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 concurrently to working at WLVI.

Crispino was hired by MSG in 1992 to host MSG SportsDesk and Knicks GameNight. He has since served in a multitude of roles including stints as host of The St. John's Report, Yankees Scorecard, and Heineken Jets Journal. Crispino has also served as a clubhouse reporter for the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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, a fill-in play by play announcer for the New York Mets

New York Mets

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, and as the studio host for New York Rangers

New York Rangers

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 and New York Liberty

New York Liberty

The New York Liberty is a professional basketball team based in New York City, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was one of the eight original franchises of the league...

. Crispino has called the Colgate Games, the PSAL

PSAL

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 Championships and Golden Gloves

Golden Gloves

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 Boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

. At FSN New York, Crispino hosted New Jersey Nets

New Jersey Nets

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 and New York Islanders

New York Islanders

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 telecasts.

Outside of MSG, Crispino has served as a play by play announcer for the New York Giants

New York Giants

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, New York Jets

New York Jets

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, New York CityHawks, PGA

PGA Tour

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 Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, and Bridgeport Bluefish

Bridgeport Bluefish

The Bridgeport Bluefish is an American professional baseball team based in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They are a member of the Liberty Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball...

, and was a sports anchor at WNBC-TV from 2005-2007. He also calls basketball for the Big Ten Network.

Nationally, Crispino has hosted College Football Saturday and NCAA baseball regionals for CSTV. From 2002-2006, he served as ESPN

ESPN

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's play-by-play announcer for the U.S. Open

U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...

, NCAA wrestling and tennis, Major League Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse

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 and also called regional college football and basketball games for ESPN Plus

ESPN Plus

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. During this time Crispino hosted "Sports Talk" for ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio

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. Crispino also hosted Gamenights and Insiders for NBA TV

NBA TV

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