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Ryan Ruocco (; born November 18, 1986) is an American television and radio sportscaster. He serves as a play-by-play announcer for the NBA, WNBA, and women's college basketball on ESPN, and the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets on YES Network. He previously hosted the podcast R2C2 with former Yankees all-star pitcher CC Sabathia as well as the Stephen A. Smith & Ryan Ruocco Show on WEPN-FM.
As a student at Fordham, Ruocco called Rams football and basketball on WFUV.
Ruocco began working for ESPN and WEPN-FM in 2008 as a contributor on The Michael Kay Show and as a substitute host on various ESPN Radio shows. He was a fill-in host prior to 2008 for ESPN Radio and anchored ESPN Radio SportsCenter and was a correspondent for the NFL Network. He also called college football and basketball games for ESPN Radio and also does play-by-play duties for The NFL on ESPN Radio beginning in 2013 with three other play-by-play men Marc Kestecher, Sean McDonough, and Bill Rosinski.
In 2020, Ruocco was the first play-by-play announcer to use the correct pronouns for New York Liberty star Layshia Clarendon, who is non-binary, when describing Clarendon’s baskets and rebounds, compelling a progressive and inclusive shift for gender norms in sports. In 2023, ESPN formed a second core NBA broadcast team for the 2023–24 season, with Ruocco as play-by-play and former NBA players Richard Jefferson and JJ Redick as analysts. The team would call the NBA Sunday Showcase series on ABC (replacing Mark Jones and Doris Burke), plus work together for other marquee events throughout the season and into the NBA playoffs.
Ruocco debuted as a lead play-by-play broadcaster for the YES Network when he called a series between the New York Yankees and Houston Astros in June 2015.
During the 2019 baseball season, Ruocco stepped up as the main voice of the New York Yankees on the YES Network. In addition to Ruocco’s regular slate of Yankees broadcasts, he took over for YES Network’s play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay as he underwent vocal cord surgery. Ruocco also filled in for the legendary radio sportscaster John Sterling on WFAN in July 2019 when he took off his first radio broadcast after working 5,060 straight Yankees games since 1989.
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