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Mike Tirico (; born December 13, 1966) is an American sportscaster. He is currently the NFL play-by-play announcer on
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's '' Sunday Night Football'', having replaced
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in 2022. From 2006 to 2015, Tirico served as a play-by-play announcer on
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's '' Monday Night Football''. Tirico has called a multitude of sports in his career, including the NBA, NHL, college football and basketball, golf, tennis, and World Cup soccer. Tirico left ESPN after 25 years with the network when his contract expired in the summer of 2016, and was subsequently hired by NBC Sports. Tirico debuted during NBC's coverage of the
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and has since served as the network's lead host for golf coverage. Since joining NBC Sports, Tirico has become lead primetime host of the
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, was the lead play-by-play for
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, host of
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races on NBC, host of NBC's ''
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'', host of NBC's coverage of the
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and hosted NBC's coverage of the Stanley Cup.


Early life and education

Tirico was born in New York City to an Italian American mother and
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father. He grew up in the borough of
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, graduating from Bayside High School. In 1988, he graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. At Syracuse, he was the first recipient of the Robert Costas scholarship.


Career


ABC and ESPN (1991–2016)

Tirico joined ESPN in
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as a '' SportsCenter'' anchor, after four years as Sports Director at
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affiliate WTVH in Syracuse, New York, during his undergraduate years at Syracuse University. Tirico was noted for his versatile nature and the variety of assignments he handled for '' SportsCenter.'' Tirico was the first host seen on
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. Tirico handled the play-by-play for ESPN's Thursday night college football package (1997 to 2005), college basketball coverage (1997 to 2002), NBA coverage (2002 to 2016), and golf coverage for ESPN/ABC (1997 to 2015). Tirico also hosted studio coverage of various ESPN and ABC covered events, including a stint on ESPN's ''
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'' (previously known as ''NFL Prime Monday'') from 1993 to 2001 and ABC's NBA studio shows. He also broadcast NBA games on
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/ ABC and play-by-play for the NBA Finals on ESPN Radio. He anchored the 2009 U.S. Open (tennis) and co-anchored the
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, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and UEFA Euro 2016 (his last assignment at ESPN/ABC).


NBC Sports (2016–present)

On May 9, 2016, after a leak the prior month, it was officially announced that Mike Tirico would join NBC Sports effective July 1, 2016. Tirico signed off for the last time on ESPN on June 30, 2016, during the conclusion of that day's coverage of the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Tirico's first on-air appearance on an NBC property came during the
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on NBC's
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, calling play-by-play for the first three hours of first and second round coverage. Tirico moved to the studio host role in the afternoons on both Thursday and Friday, and he hosted all on the coverage on NBC proper over the weekend. Tirico served as a studio host and contributor for NBC's broadcasts of the 2016 Summer Olympics from Rio de Janeiro in August.
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of ''
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'' suggested that Tirico could potentially succeed
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as the primetime host of NBC's Olympics coverage. NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus explained following the 2014 Winter Olympics that the division had begun to "think about what life after Bob might be, whether post- Rio, post- Pyeongchang, post-
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, whenever he does not want to do it anymore." Deitsch also felt that Tirico's experience in radio could allow him to contribute to the
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network. '' Sports Business Journal'' initially reported that Tirico would serve as NBC's lead play-by-play announcer for '' Thursday Night Football'' (which was expanding to NBC during the upcoming season), and was likely to be a future successor to
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. The NFL later stated that its contract with NBC required that the network use its lead play-by-play commentator for all primetime broadcasts. In the meantime, Tirico called the two preseason games allocated to NBC, and was placed on play-by-play for NBC's first three Notre Dame college football games to fill in for Dan Hicks, due to Hicks' conflicts with his lead play-by-play role on NBC's golf coverage, including the
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. Tirico would join Hicks to host Sunday coverage of the event. Tirico was assigned to two late-season games in the ''Thursday Night Football'' package produced for
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, held on a Saturday and Christmas Sunday respectively, with
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and
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. In November 2016, NBC announced that Tirico would perform play-by-play with Cris Collinsworth on three ''Sunday Night Football'' games (including the Thanksgiving primetime game) and one ''Thursday Night Football'' game, filling in for Al Michaels. Michaels had requested time off due to NBC's increased NFL workload. On February 9, 2017,
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announced that he would be retiring as the primetime host of NBC's coverage of the Olympics, and that Tirico would replace him beginning at the
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. Tirico also replaced Costas as studio host for NBC's NFL coverage and ''Football Night in America''. On May 31, 2017, it was announced that Mike Tirico would permanently replace Al Michaels as the play-by-play commentator for all of NBC's ''Thursday Night Football'' games. In 2017, Tirico took over the role of
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in
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coverage and became full-time as the play-by-play announcer for Notre Dame football in 2017. Tirico skipped
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in order to focus on preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which began the following Friday. In the 2018 NFL season, after losing ''Thursday Night Football'' to Fox, Tirico was assigned to NBC's Thanksgiving game, joined by his ''Football Night in America'' colleagues Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison. He also called two ''NFL Network Special'' games in December produced by
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. On February 20, 2019, Tirico called his first NHL game on NBCSN's '' Wednesday Night Hockey'', between the
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and Detroit Red Wings, joined by Eddie Olczyk on color commentator and
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as the "''Inside-the-Glass''" reporter. Although he has served as studio host for selected NHL broadcasts, this marked his first broadcast as commentator. His performance was well received by viewers and sportswriters. In January of that year, he hosted pregame, intermission, and post-game coverage of the
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. In a similar move to 2016, Tirico filled in for Al Michaels on a few ''Sunday Night Football'' games during the 2020 season. Due to the ongoing
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, NBC decided to give Michaels 3–5 "bye weeks", in order to minimize travel. One of those weeks was due to Michaels failing to pass NBC's COVID-19 protocols. He also worked one of NBC's two Wild Card games, albeit remotely, also due to COVID-19 protocols. In addition, Tirico had planned to work NBC's Thanksgiving game, but it was postponed to Sunday. Tirico then called the originally planned Sunday night game with
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and
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. Michaels had planned to work the postponed game, but the former game was postponed again to Tuesday, so NBC kept Tirico on duty for the planned Sunday night game, but also placed him back on duty for the game that was later postponed to Wednesday. Tirico hosted both the 2022 Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl LVI, traveling to Los Angeles part-way through the Games to anchor Olympics coverage from outside
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on the weekend of the Super Bowl.


Broadcasting partners

Tirico has been paired in the college football booth with Tim Brant, Terry Bowden,
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,
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,
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, and David Norrie. Since the beginning of the 2017 season, Tirico has served as play-by-play for ''
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'', partnering with
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and later
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. In 2021,
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joined NBC Sports as Tirico's partner for Notre Dame games and on ''Football Night in America'' with Tirico and Dungy. His partners in NBA coverage have included
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,
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, and Greg Anthony. His color commentators for golf coverage were
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,
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, Nick Faldo, and
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. He has worked with
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on college basketball coverage. Tirico worked with Jon Gruden on '' Monday Night Football'' and also the Outback Bowl ( 2011,
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,
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and 2014) and
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( 2011 and
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). On April 21 and 22, 2007, he appeared as a guest host, filling in for
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, alongside Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's ''
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''. Tirico currently teams with
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for '' Sunday Night Football'' on
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.


Radio career

Tirico hosted his first show from
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radio in Syracuse, the station where he started his sports broadcasting career, on the campus of Syracuse University. Fellow Orange alum
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was his first guest. On September 20, 2007, Tirico began hosting the short-lived ''The Mike Tirico Show'' on ESPN Radio with co-host
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(later renamed ''Tirico &Van Pelt'' in May 2008), replacing Dan Patrick in its previous timeslot. On May 19, 2009, Tirico announced he would be leaving the show to focus more on his television duties; the show would carry on as '' The Scott Van Pelt Show'', with
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becoming the new co-host.


Award

In 2017, Tirico won the ''Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media'' from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.


Personal life

Tirico and his wife Debbie, a Michigan native, have two children. The Tiricos have lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, since 1999. He has famously stated that he has seen pictures of his father and immediate family, all of whom are of Italian ancestry. "The only contact I had growing up was with my mom’s side of the family. And they are all as white as the refrigerator I’m standing in front of right now." In regard to a genealogical test to see if he has a black ancestor, he said "Yeah. I’d like to find out the truth at some point, so I can answer questions for my kids", but made it clear he does not feel any urgency. In September 2022, Tirico acknowledged that his father is African-American.


References


External links


Mike Tirico's ESPN Bio

Tirico Set to Join Elite Group on 'MNF'
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