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Rob Stone is a sports commentator for Fox Soccer. He has covered various sports including Major League Soccer, NCAA and NFL football, and was recently the play-by-play announcer for ESPN's coverage of PBA Tournament Bowling alongside color commentator and PBA Hall of Famer Randy Pedersen.
A native of Simsbury, Connecticut, Stone is a 1991 graduate of Colgate University with a degree in English and was an exceptional player on the college's soccer team, captaining the squad his senior year. He was a member of Sigma Chi.
Stone originally hired on at ESPN in 1992 as a production assistant, working on SportsCenter and other shows. The following year Stone went to WFXL-TV in Albany, Georgia; he worked there two years as a sports anchor and later as sports director. In 1995 he went to WTOG in Tampa, Florida as a weekend sports anchor and sports reporter, primarily covering stories on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Stone returned to ESPN in the summer of 1997. He has also worked as an analyst for the Tampa Bay Mutiny soccer team for SportsChannel Florida.[citation needed]