David Coleman... his commentary made athletics popular and I also enjoyed his football commentary.

Sid Waddell is an annoying bawbag. He just spouts a right load of crap that has nothing to do with the sport he is supposed to be commenting on.

Like me I guess.

However, to answer the question, and sorry for offending my Yorkshire friends even more, David "Bumble" Lloyd in the creekit is the daddy.

Mark Hobson & Bobby Ham

Ray Warren

Some GREAT names posted fron the past. Modern commentators are platinudinous, factual but lacking in enthusiasm and knowledge.
Apart from Sid Waddell : though seriously lacking in structured verbosity and uninteded mixed metaphores and inane similarities, there been no one up to the sheer suspension of belief since Eddy Waring

Brian Moore commentary for the Rugby Yawnion is brilliant he definitely says how he sees it.

Michael O'Hehir would have to be the best. Commentating on horse racing is probably one of the hardest sports to commentate on, moves very fast, horses falling, trying to judge a horse by the jockeys colours ie up to 40 different shirts to remeber. just think grand National. O'Hehir was offered a boat load of money by the BBC to be their full time Racing Commentator but turned it down so that he could stay in Ireland to commentate on Hurling and Gaelic football. He did however come over every year for the National and one or two other race meetings. He is acknowledged as being the best ever racing commentator. See link for some details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O'Hehir

Michael O'Hehir would have to be the best. Commentating on horse racing is probably one of the hardest sports to commentate on, moves very fast, horses falling, trying to judge a horse by the jockeys colours ie up to 40 different shirts to remeber. just think grand National. O'Hehir was offered a boat load of money by the BBC to be their full time Racing Commentator but turned it down so that he could stay in Ireland to commentate on Hurling and Gaelic football. He did however come over every year for the National and one or two other race meetings. He is acknowledged as being the best ever racing commentator. See link for some details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O'Hehir

If you can stand his pro-England bias.

DDD obviously

Jimmy Hill

Well.... Well.... Well.....

Sid Waddell is darts. Darts was a pub game then Sid Waddell created Indoor League for Yorkshire Television (presented by the greatest cricketer ever) and since then with the help of Sid amongst others has now become a sell out Arena sport (PDC anyway the BDO is crap) - Gary Hetherington won't have it but it's more popular than Leeds Rhinos.

The man is a genius and a master of the one liner. A Cambridge graduate (who organised the first inter-collegiate darts tournament) and accomplised writer the man is a legend in the true sense of the world.

A resident of Pudsey he is without doubt THE greatest sports commentator of all the sports even more so than Brian Johnston and Eddie Waring.