Mike Tirico

NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico said Thursday he laments athletes won’t have parents with them at the Tokyo Olympics. “While I feel bad for the fans [who could not attend the Tokyo Olympics], the ones I feel the worst for are the parents,” he said. “Their parents have put in a lot of hours. It’s just so disappointing that they can’t...

NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico said viewers can expect a “realistic, honest” opening ceremony. “It’s not in a vacuum,” Tirico said. “It’s understanding that people are hurting. There are difficult times.”

NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico will be the primetime host of the Tokyo Olympics. He took us up on our challenge to give us a preview of what we’ll be seeing once the Tokyo Games kick off using Legos.

Rebecca Lowe will be the daytime host for NBC’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympics.

What will this year’s Olympic Games look like with so much of the world affected by the pandemic? Mike Tirico previews the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Mike Tirico returns to his role as host for live golf on television Sunday for the first time in more than two months

NBCSN will broadcast an interview with Lance Armstrong following Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals.

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...

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.

Danica Patrick will join NBC Sports’ inaugural coverage of the Indianapolis 500 as an analyst alongside host Mike Tirico.
Patrick says her eighth appearance in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” prepped her for a return as a television personality.

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.

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.

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.”...

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...

NBC is bringing back Katie Couric to co-host the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month.

While too early for a torch lighting, a new Olympic-themed television network makes its debut Saturday morning.

Mike Tirico is replacing Al Michaels as the play-by-play announcer for Thursday night games this season.

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...