News about Mike Tirico

NBC Sports host Mike Tirico is a pro's pro, but that doesn't mean he's perfect. The former ESPN star and current Sunday Night Football announcer mistook Martinique's flag for that of Palestine after the men's basketball final at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. He quickly corrected himself and avoided a potentially awkward situation. The incident occurred after France fell to LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Team USA. Tirico innocently identified France's Mathias Lessort, a Martinique-born center who was draped in the flag of the French territory. 'You saw with Lessort, one of the backup centers, the Palestine flag draped over his shoulders,' Tirico mistakenly said on NBC. 'We are certainly conscious of any displays regarding the Middle East conflict from athletes involved in these games.'

Steph Curry couldn't resist poking fun at France once again by wearing a brutal 'Nuit Nuit' hoodie after USA's Olympics basketball triumph in Paris. America's team of NBA superstars captured gold against the hosts in the French capital on Saturday night, with Curry and LeBron James inspiring USA to a 98-87 final victory. After pulling out a sensational three-pointer which sent fans wild online, the Golden State Warriors point guard could be seen trolling the home crowd with his famous 'night night' gesture on court.

The US women's basketball team was brutally trolled by a Caitlin Clark fan before their Olympics opener in Paris. WNBA sensation Clark was controversially left out of the star-studded squad who are currently in Paris competing for gold. Clark has taken the WNBA by storm since being drafted by the Indiana Fever. Her presence has led to an explosion of interest in the league and many thought she should have gone to the Olympics.

Former Team USA women's basketball coach Dawn Staley praised the growth of Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark and says that her play in recent months may have granted her a roster spot if the decision was made later. Clark was 12 games into her career when the list for Team USA dropped - leaving the Iowa star to watch the Olympics from home. But when asked by NBC's Mike Tirico about Clark, Staley believes that if the decision for the roster was made closer to the date of the Olympics, that the Fever star might have been included.

Kelly Clarkson had an emotional response to Celine Dion's Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony performance on Friday night. The 43-year-old talk show host got choked up while speaking with fellow announcers Peyton Manning and Mike Tirico about 56-year-old Dion's comeback act - which was her first since announcing her battle with Stiff Person Syndrome in 2022. The Canadian songstress delivered a stirring rendition of Édith Piaf's Hymne A L'Amour, moving many who witnessed it to tears.

Olympic Opening Ceremony viewers were left puzzled over NBC's decision to tap Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning as commentators for the major global event.  Rather than hiring a panel of former Olympians or traditional broadcasters, the two-time Super Bowl champ and the Grammy winning songstress were joined by commentator Mike Tirico.  The trio had very little expertise to offer while covering the star-studded event. 

With modest hopes, Dixie Mae Crain qualified for the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday. At the lead-up to this week's Masters, a 13-year-old from Springtown, Texas, told reporters: "I got to Augusta National.' Winning is just getting there.' On Sunday, the budding golfer would finish eighth in her age group, but that was certainly not the point of her weekend. That would have happened a night earlier when the guest of honor, Sherry, a chief petty officer in the Navy who had been stationed in Bahrain for 18 months. After Mike Tirico, the announcer and MC, told the crowd that Sherry had captured a video message to share with her family, she revealed it during Saturday's banquet.

Cooper was announced on Wednesday that during the games, it would be a 'Watch with Alex Cooper' live from Paris. The interactive program will give viewers an inside look at high-profile Team USA activities, including soccer, gymnastics, and basketball. When doing commentary on Peacock, the 'watch' will appear as a picture-in-picture view during the games, with Cooper and her guests answering questions from social media in real time. 'I am so excited to be partnering with NBC and Peacock to bring this interactive watch-party style from the Olympics to audiences even closer to the excitement of in Paris,' Cooper said in a tweet.

On Tuesday evening, singer Kelly Clarkson sluggish on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show. When she added white pointy pumps, the 41-year-old Stronger hitmaker highlighted her small waistline and thin arms. Clarkson lost 40 pounds last year after beginning a high protein, low carb diet, and also walking in her new hometown, New York City. This year, the siren talked about her weight loss, saying that her doctor wanted her to lose weight so she did not get pre-diabetes. As the three three Olympic Games in Paris in July, the talk show host was joined by Peyton Manning and Mike Tirico.

Manning, a two-time Super Bowl champion, and I are both fans of the athletes and the opening ceremony of years past,' Manning told The AP. I think there will be a lot of emotions for these people.' I'm looking forward to hearing those stories between now and July and possibly sharing it with the audience.' Tirico will host his fourth opening ceremony of the Olympics since joining NBC Sports from ESPN and ABC in 2016.

At Levi Stadium in San Francisco, NBC cameras caught a man wearing a Christian McCaffrey jersey in the stands collapsed to one knee and pulled out a ring. His lady, who was wearing a Dak Prescott jersey at the time, had no idea what was going on. While wrapping up Sunday's game coverage, commentators Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth amusingly broke down the plan, with the former asking if the guy would have continued with his scheme if it had not.

During the Hall of Fame Game on Thursday, the lights went out, and a snapshot of Aaron Rodgers in the darkness led to some inevitable quips. Rodgers ended up on a four-day 'darkness retreat' in February as he considered his NFL future, with retirement an option at the time for the quarterback. And when a power outage occurred during the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, between the Jets and the Browns, NBC's Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth couldn't avoid denying the situation.

The Buffalo Bills are Super Bowl contenders, and the rest of the NFL has been put on alert. The Bills' potential on both directions of football was demonstrated in Los Angeles on Thursday. The defending champion Rams defeated the Bills 31-10 season-opening victory over the defending champions of the football. quarterback Josh Allen did not only complete with 297 yards and three touchdowns on 26-of-31 passing, but also offseason acquisition Von Miller fired Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford twice in his debut for Buffalo. And Buffalo's heyday was not over. During an uncharacteristically bad showing, Stafford was picked off three times, but the Bills defense held the Rams backfield to just 2.9 yards per carry on Thursday.