Early Life
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster who currently works for NBC Sports. He is best known for his work on NFL Live, Golf Channel and Monday Night Football. Tirico was born in Queens, New York to an Italian-American family.
Family And Education
His father was a car salesman and his mother was a homemaker. Tirico has one older brother and two younger sisters. He completed her communications degree in the year 1988, as he attended Syracuse University and done his further education from there.
Tirico began his broadcasting career while still in college, working as a sports director for WAER radio. When his graduation was completed he started his profession as a reporter as well as got the opportunity to be a weekend anchor in Syracuse of sports matches.
Anchor Journey
Later got shifted to Tampa, Florida for anchoring in sports. In 1991, Tirico joined ESPN, where he quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the network’s most recognizable voices.
He also anchored many important events of basketball and football matches. In 2016, Tirico made history when he became the first ever openly gay sportscaster to call an NFL game on television.
He came out publicly in 2017 during an interview with Outsports.com. Since coming out, Tirico has been an outspoken champion of LGBTQ rights and equality within the world of sports broadcasting.
Mike Tirico is a white American sportscaster. He is currently the play-by-play announcer for NBC’s Sunday Night Football and Thursday Night Football. He also hosts various golf events for the network, including The Open Championship and Ryder Cup.
Achievements
Tirico has called a number of major sporting events for NBC, including the Olympics, NFL Wild Card playoff games, and the Triple Crown.
His dad was actually an Italian American where as mom was Irish american and his he done his schooling from Long Island.
Tirico then spent four years as a sports anchor/reporter at WTVH-TV in Syracuse before moving to Bristol, Connecticut, in 1992 to work for ESPN.
At ESPN, Tirico became one of the network’s most recognizable voices, calling a variety of sports including college football and basketball, Major League Baseball, golf (including coverage of The Masters), and tennis (including Wimbledon).
He also served as host of SportsCenter and co-hosted Golf Central Pre Game (now Golf Channel on NBC).
In 2006, Tirico was named lead play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football after Al Michaels left to join NBC’s Sunday Night Football broadcast team. In 2011, Tirico moved to NBC.
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