Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico
Michael Todd "Mike" Tiricois an American sportscaster, best known for his role as a coverage play-by-play announcer on ESPN's presentation of Monday Night Football from 2006 to 2015. In addition, Tirico has called a multitude of programming for ESPN/ABC, including the NBA, golf, and tennis. He was also one of the anchors of ESPN's coverage of the FIFA World Cup, along with Bob Ley...
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth13 December 1966
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... On TV, you can get a sense of this is some place you would love to go play.
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This will show off one of the most beautiful courses, a great, restored course,
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For me, it's the thrill of a lifetime.
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It's the best play-by-play chair in sports. To be the next person to sit in it is humbling.
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I've learned a lot of life lessons from Lee Corso. One of those lessons is that great jobs rarely become available. So you take a job and turn it into a great one. O'Leary can do that in Orlando.
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They're going to burn the city of Detroit down if the Pistons win, and it's not worth it.
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You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.
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Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.
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I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.
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Michael Vick almost got hurt on the sideline.
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Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.
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One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event, there's a senior or a junior from WAER broadcasting sports just the way we did, and just the way it happened a couple generations before us. That's a great legacy for the university and a great tradition that still continues to this day, and makes those of us who were a small part of it very very proud.