Previously, Lorenz hosted the network’s Sportico Sports Business Presented by Genius Sports show, which premiered on YES in 2023, as well as the Emmy Award-winning Forbes SportsMoney show, which aired on YES from 2008 to 2024.

In addition, Lorenz has play-by-play credits to his name at YES, including Yankees regular season and Spring Training telecasts, Staten Island Yankees games and Ivy League football.

Lorenz has won three New York Emmy Awards recognizing him as the top sports anchor in New York. In addition, Forbes SportsMoney captured Emmy Awards in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016. Lorenz received five Emmy nominations in 2025: he picked up a nomination in the Anchor for a Sports-Only Program category and was a member of the YES teams nominated for two Emmys each in the Sports Program – Live (Single Program) and Live Sporting Event Season categories.

Prior to joining the YES Network in 2002, Lorenz served as an anchor for CNN/Sports Illustrated, which he joined in April of 1991. He hosted CNN’s signature weekly sports programming, including NFL Preview, College Football Preview, This Week in the NBA, SI Cover to Cover and Page One. He also hosted CNN’s weekly baseball show from 1992 to 1996 and, from 1994 to 1996, hosted CNN’s College Basketball Preview and College Coaches Corner. In addition to those duties, Lorenz also worked on a variety of programs for CNN’s sister networks TBS and TNT, hosting Super Bowl specials and serving as back-up host on Inside the NBA on TNT.

Before joining CNN, Lorenz was a reporter and anchor at WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla. Joining WPTV-TV in 1988, he wrote, produced and anchored four weekend sportscasts. Lorenz earlier served as sports director at KIEM-TV in Eureka, Calif., was a writer at CBS ExtraVision in Los Angeles and an analyst/anchor for CitiCABLE in Torrance, Calif.

Lorenz is on the Honorary Event Committee for the Connecticut chapter of Make-A-Wish and has emceed its annual Make-A-Wish Ball. He has also emceed the Annual Miracle Ball, which raises money and awareness for the Miracle League of Westchester County in New York.

He holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California.