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Mike Tirico Talks COVID-19, Player Protests Ahead of NFL Season
NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai speaks with NBC Sports host Mike Tirico about a variety of issues heading into a unique football season.
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Tirico Hosting Live Golf From 1,000 Miles Away
Mike Tirico returns to his role as host for live golf on television Sunday for the first time in more than two months
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'I Wouldn't Change a Thing': NBCSN to Air Interview With Unrepentant Lance Armstrong
NBCSN will broadcast an interview with Lance Armstrong following Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals.
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NBC Ready to Showcase Iconic Indianapolis 500 for First Time
Like most aspiring broadcasters of his era, Mike Tirico remembers tuning into ABC every Saturday to watch Wide World of Sports, listening in rapt attention to the dulcet tones of Jim McKay. “It was Channel 7 back in New York,” Tirico recalled fondly, “and this was a time that was almost unfathomable — pre-cable, no internet. Wide World of Sports...
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Get Ready for the 2019 Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown, is set for Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The NBC Sports team of Mike Tirico, Randy Moss and Eddie Olczyk preview the race.
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Danica Patrick to Join NBC's Indy 500 Team
Danica Patrick will join NBC Sports’ inaugural coverage of the Indianapolis 500 as an analyst alongside host Mike Tirico.
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Mike Tirico Chosen to Host NBC's Inaugural Indy 500 Coverage
NBC Sports announced Friday that Mike Tirico will anchor the network’s inaugural Indianapolis 500 coverage on May 26, giving him his first glimpse at the largest single-day crowd to attend a sporting event anywhere in the world.
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Tirico Takes Over for Hammond on NBC's Horse Racing Coverage
Mike Tirico is taking the reins from Tom Hammond as a host of NBC’s Triple Crown horse racing coverage. Tirico adds the job to his recently announced duties as host of the network’s prime-time Olympics coverage starting next winter in South Korea.
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How to Watch the Closing Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics
Another Olympics is in the books. The Pyeongchang closing ceremony capped off the 2018 Winter Games Sunday morning. It will air on primetime at 8 p.m. ET. Jessie Diggins has been named the U.S. flag bearer after an incredibly gutsy performance to take home the country’s first-ever gold medal in Cross-Country. The closing ceremony emphasized the “human spirit of perseverance.”...
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Hero, Harasser or Both? Shaun White's Newly Complex Legacy
It was expected to be a coronation: snowboarder Shaun White, shredding the halfpipe in an epic performance that won him Olympic gold at Pyeongchang four years after a devastating loss in Sochi and just four months after a nasty fall during practice sent him to a hospital. But as he basked in the comeback story of the Winter Games, allegations...
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Katie Couric Returning to NBC for Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
NBC is bringing back Katie Couric to co-host the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month.
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Spectator Crashes Opening Ceremony in Pyeongchang
Following the prime time broadcast of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, NBC reported that an unauthorized individual slid down the ramp leading from the Olympic torch into Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. NBC’s Mike Tirico said what appeared to be the same person returned a second time later in the ceremony.
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3 to Watch: Opening Ceremony, Final Torch Bearer and Snowboarding
Let the games begin! Watch the official start to the first ever Olympic Winter in South Korea Friday night with NBC’s special primetime coverage.
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New TV Network Focusing on Olympics Making Debut
While too early for a torch lighting, a new Olympic-themed television network makes its debut Saturday morning.
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Mike Tirico In, Al Michaels Out on ‘Thursday Night Football'
Mike Tirico is replacing Al Michaels as the play-by-play announcer for Thursday night games this season.
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Longtime Prime Time Olympics Host Bob Costas Passes Torch to Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is taking over for Bob Costas as prime time host of the Olympics on NBC, the network announced Thursday, exactly a year before the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Costas has served in the role for all 11 Olympic games since 1992. “It has been both a privilege and an incredible personal and professional experience to...