Lon McEachern is an American sports commentator most known for his hand-by-hand commentary of the World Series of Poker on ESPN.
13 Facts About Lon McEachern
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Lon McEachern attended Redwood High School and played baseball while a student.
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Lon McEachern was teammates with future MLB shortstop Buddy Biancalana in his senior year and graduated in 1975.
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Lon McEachern attended Santa Barbara City College and was a baseball teammate of future-MLB player Jesse Orosco.
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Out of college, Lon McEachern worked radio at KTMS, the former home of another UCSB graduate in Jim Rome, before entering the television industry with KCOY-TV.
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Lon McEachern moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s to work at KGO-TV and KPIX-TV.
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Lon McEachern freelanced for ESPN, including covering play-by-play of the X Games.
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In 2002, ESPN reached out to Lon McEachern, who was working as a mortgage banker at the time, to cover poker.
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Lon McEachern was brought back in 2003 alongside Norman Chad for the 2003 World Series of Poker.
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Lon McEachern continued as a mortgage banker for nearly five years, doing poker coverage for ESPN on the side.
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In 2007 McEachern was the commentator for Pride 33 along with fighters Frank Trigg and Josh Barnett.
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Lon McEachern married Carol Czyzewski, a fellow UC Santa Barbara alumna, in 1981 and has two children.
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Lon McEachern's nephew, Matthew Wood, is a sound engineer for Skywalker Sound and has worked on numerous Star Wars films.