Question: When was the American television sportscaster whose work was featured in "Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco" born
Context: Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American television sportscaster. Jennings "Jay" Randolph, Jr. (born September 19, 1934) is an American sportscaster whose career has spanned more than fifty years. Duane Eugene Kuiper (born June 19, 1950) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, as well as a seven-time Emmy award-winning radio and television sportscaster for the San Francisco Giants.  Along with former major league pitcher Mike Krukow, Kuiper forms the broadcast duo known as "Kruk and Kuip". Convoy HG 53 was the 53rd of the numbered series of World War II HG convoys of Homeward bound merchant ships from Gibraltar to Liverpool.  Convoy HG 53 lost nine ships during a coordinated attack in February 1941.  HG 53 was one of the few Atlantic convoys to have ships sunk by submarines, by aircraft, and by surface ships. Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco is a 1996 American adventure comedy film and a sequel to the 1993 film "".  Directed by David R. Ellis, the film features the three animals from the first film, Shadow the Golden Retriever (voiced by Ralph Waite, replacing Don Ameche, who died in 1993), Sassy the Himalayan cat (Sally Field), and Chance the American Bulldog (Michael J. Fox).  It also features the voice work of Sinbad, Carla Gugino, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jon Polito, Adam Goldberg, Al Michaels, Tommy Lasorda, and Bob Uecker. Mercer has had a small career in television and film.  She made three appearances on television, in the series "", "Homeward Bound" and "", and work in the television film "Jack Be Nimble". Emily Matchar (born 1982) is an American journalist and author.  Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she graduated from Harvard University in 2004.  Her work has appeared in "The Atlantic", "Salon", "The Washington Post", "Time", "The New Republic", "Gourmet", and "Outside", among others.  Her non-fiction book, "Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity" was a critical exploration of the cultural phenomenon of "new domesticity," the re-embrace of old-fashioned domestic arts and practices from knitting to canning to backyard chicken-raising.  It was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013 and received favorable reviews from "The New Yorker", "The New Republic", and "The Washington Post", among many others, and was given 3.5 out of 4 stars by "People Magazine".  She has made numerous appearances on TV and radio, including The Colbert Report, Good Morning America, MSNBC's The Cycle, NPR, and the BBC. Homeward Bound is a lost 1923 American drama silent film directed by Ralph Ince and written by Peter B. Kyne, Jack Cunningham and Paul Sloane.  The film stars Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Charles S. Abbe, William P. Carleton, Hugh Cameron and Gus Weinberg.  The film was released on July 29, 1923, by Paramount Pictures. Jan Darwin Hutchins (born 1949) is an American TV and radio journalist, producer and media consultant.  Hutchins was born in Danville, Illinois and grew up in Ohio.  He studied at Yale University, graduating with a B.A. in History in 1971.  He started his career in 1972 as a sports journalist at the WIIC TV station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  After moving to California, Hutchins worked from 1974 to 1990 as a sportscaster on the KPIX TV channel in San Francisco and at KRON (Channel 4).  In 1981, he joined KICU (Channel 36) in San Jose when the San Francisco Bay Area independent television station initiated its news broadcasts, co-anchoring the prime time news program with Ysabel Duron until 1991.  From 1993-1995, Hutchins served as the director of community development for the San Francisco Giants baseball team.  He hosted sports, news and public affairs programs for San Francisco area radio stations (KGO, KCBS, KNBR) and from 1997 to 2000 worked at American Champion Media, which, along with KTEH-TV (Channel 54), produced "Adventures with Kanga Roddy", a children's television series about emotional intelligence that aired on PBS and starred Pat Morita, Jennifer Montana and Karen Lott.  The show won Northern California Area EMMY Awards in 1999 and 2000.  From 1996-1999 Hutchins served on the city council of Los Gatos, CA both as a vice-mayor and mayor and later founded a local yoga center.  He lives currently in San Jose where he works as a media consultant. Beth Taylor (born October 14, 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American author, public relations practitioner and journalist who has worked as a television sportscaster, newscaster, producer and director, as well as a general assignment reporter in both print and broadcast mediums.  Taylor became Mississippi's first female television sportscaster when hired by WDAM-TV (an NBC affiliate) in Laurel-Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  She has also worked in media relations, public relations, video productions, advertising, marketing, and as a communications consultant.
Answer: November 12, 1944