Mike Tirico

Ann Arbor

Broadcaster, Sunday Night Football at NBC Sports

NBC Sports, covering great sports events. Proud Syracuse alum. Go Orange 🍊

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"You Have to Be Really Careful"

1 week ago | nbc.com | Mike Tirico

Longtime NBC Sports on-air personality Mike Tirico has been a mainstay of NBC Sports coverage for nearly a decade, having joined the network in 2016 after a 25-year career at ESPN. He's been the lead play-by-play commentator for NBC Sunday Night Football since 2022 and will bring those talents to the NBA on NBC this season.
His Family, Sunday Night Football Role & More

4 weeks ago | nbc.com | Mike Tirico

Since the early 1990s, Mike Tirico, 58, has been a staple of the sports broadcasting scene and for the last several years, he's comfortably settled into his post as play-by-play announcer for Sunday Night Football on NBC (he's been a part of the greater SNF sports team for nearly a decade). This week, however, he takes on a very different network responsibility as guest host on while Savannah Guthrie's usual co-host, Craig Melvin, is temporarily out enjoying the Easter vacation with his family.
Everything to Know

1 month ago | nbc.com | Mike Tirico

This fall, after more than 20 years away at other networks, the NBA will return home to NBC. The renewed partnership between league and network has many basketball fans nostalgic for the 1990s, when NBA on NBC was appointment TV for sports lovers everywhere, and has new fans wondering just how important that programming bloc was to league history.
Everything to Know About NBC's 2024 Sunday Night Football Broadcast Team

Sep 6, 2024 | nbc.com | Mike Tirico |Cris Collinsworth |Melissa Stark |Terry McAulay

The wait is over. Football is officially back, the NFL regular season has kicked off, and that means a new season of NBC's Sunday Night Football has landed, ready to give you months of exciting football coverage straight from primetime's number one show.
Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski return to the Olympics for Paris Closing Ceremony

Aug 11, 2024 | nbcnewyork.com | Terry Gannon |Mike Tirico

Olympians Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir return to NBC on Sunday to co-host coverage of the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. This is the fourth Closing Ceremony the iconic figure skaters will be covering for NBC. They will be joining NBC Sports' Terry Gannon and Mike Tirico, and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon. During Winter Olympics coverage for NBC, Johnny, Tara, and Terry serve as the lead figure skating commentating team.
Voice of the Olympics, Mike Tirico, Calls Michigan Home

Aug 1, 2024 | witl.com | Mike Tirico

If you were to show me a room and tell me to fill it with all the things I didn't know, I'd immediately tell you we're gonna need a bigger room. However, I can officially clear a space for another random fact. While listening to the Smartless podcast, their most recent guest was Mike Tirico, who revealed that he and his family have resided in Ann Arbor, Michigan, since around 2000.
Voice of the Olympics, Mike Tirico, Calls Michigan Home

Aug 1, 2024 | 99wfmk.com | Mike Tirico

If you were to show me a room and tell me to fill it with all the things I didn't know, I'd immediately tell you we're gonna need a bigger room. However, I can officially clear a space for another random fact. While listening to the Smartless podcast, their most recent guest was Mike Tirico, who revealed that he and his family have resided in Ann Arbor, Michigan, since around 2000.
Highlights of Tom Brady's New England Patriots Hall of Fame induction

Jun 13, 2024 | telegram.com | Mike Tirico

It's safe to say everybody in New England knows who Tom Brady is. And Wednesday was the day to celebrate the former quarterback coming back to New England. Brady returned to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro on June 12 to be inducted into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame. Before the ceremony took place, Gov. Maura Healey issued a proclamation honoring Brady, according to Wicked Local media partner WCVB Channel 5.
NBC’s Tirico Reflects on Kentucky Derby and Preakness Coverage, Discusses Possible Changes

May 15, 2024 | americasbestracing.net | Mike Tirico |Joe Perez

NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico is no stranger to sports fans, whether it is from his time at the helm of ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” which was ubiquitous in every sports conversation in the 1990s, to his current role where he can be found leading Peacock’s coverage of the National Football League, Olympics, golf, and more. To horse racing and its fans, this year marks his eighth year leading the broadcast of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve and the Preakness Stakes.
From the Walls of Newhouse to Greatness

Feb 13, 2024 | newhousesports.syr.edu | Mike Tirico

Saturday, February 24, 8:30am The HergLearning that began within the walls of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and continued to a career that was launched in Syracuse, Mike Tirico defines greatness in broadcasting. Tirico, who graduated from Newhouse in 1988, had already been working professionally in Syracuse when he donned his cap and gown.