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04-25-2017, 04:34 PM
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Tirico To Replace Hammond As Host Of NBC's Triple Crown Coverage
STAMFORD, Conn. – April 25, 2017 – Mike Tirico will be taking the Triple Crown hosting reins from Tom Hammond, an award-winning member of NBC Sports’ horse racing team for more than three decades.
“NBC Sports is the home to the world’s premier horse racing, due in no small part to Tom’s passion, knowledge and relationships in the sport,” said Mark Lazarus, Chairman NBC Broadcasting and Sports. “We are pleased that Tom is going to remain part of the NBC family and that we have someone of Mike’s caliber to succeed him on horse racing.”
Next week on NBCSN, Hammond will host the special 30-minute My Kentucky Home, in which he takes a look at how Kentucky came to be the home of thoroughbred racing.
Tirico, making his first-ever trip to a Triple Crown event, joins NBC Sports Group’s Triple Crown coverage beginning with the 2017 Kentucky Derby on May 6 on NBC, and will host the Preakness Stakes on May 20, and the Belmont Stakes on June 10.
http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/20...entucky-derby/
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04-26-2017, 12:09 PM
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probably a good move. i've always liked Tom and will miss him in this spot. Tirico is smart and very professional and i think he will do a good job.
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04-28-2017, 01:46 PM
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probably a good move. i've always liked Tom and will miss him in this spot. Tirico is smart and very professional and i think he will do a good job.
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Tirico IMO is one of the premier broadcasters in the world. However there's no chance he can be as good as Tom for this particular show.
Most people who watch the Derby telecast know very little about horse racing. Hammond posses the special gift of teaching the newbies while not having to dumb down for those of us that are more seasoned fans.
With all due respect to Tirico he can't possibly match the niche and acumen that Tom's (50 years at the track) presentation comes with.
Truth be told NBC doesn't have anywhere to use Tirico until the Olympics come around. And this is the result.
Mike will be fine. He's a consummate pro.
Tom would have been furlongs better.
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04-29-2017, 09:40 PM
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Could be worse. Costas could have taken over for Hammond, that would have been extremely painful.
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04-30-2017, 10:25 AM
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More change required
If they would get rid of Johnnie & Tara, and most of the other crap, it might be worth watching for once.
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05-01-2017, 03:17 PM
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Tirico IMO is one of the premier broadcasters in the world. However there's no chance he can be as good as Tom for this particular show.
Most people who watch the Derby telecast know very little about horse racing. Hammond posses the special gift of teaching the newbies while not having to dumb down for those of us that are more seasoned fans.
With all due respect to Tirico he can't possibly match the niche and acumen that Tom's (50 years at the track) presentation comes with.
Truth be told NBC doesn't have anywhere to use Tirico until the Olympics come around. And this is the result.
Mike will be fine. He's a consummate pro.
Tom would have been furlongs better.
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Vic's right, of course.
I don't know if Vic ever heard the late Jim Healy, who did a 30 minute sports-comedy radio show through the 1970's and 1980's that was very popular here in LA. Healy had been a television broadcaster (he broadcast a lot of big fights in the 1960's and 1970's and is even in one of the Rocky movies as a fight announcer), and he knew a lot about television and used to talk about announcers a lot on his show. He also loved horse racing. (Fun fact, he attended the 1950 Thanksgiving Day Handicap at Hollywood Park, won by Your Host over On Trust and Ponder in a three horse photo finish, with my parents.)
Healy used to say something about horse racing on television. He watched as good sportscasters like Brent Musburger, Dick Enberg, and Howard Cosell were put on horse racing telecasts and did a terrible job. They got exposed because it's a complicated sport and they didn't know anything. So Healy implored networks not to do this. There are plenty of sportscasters who know something about horse racing, he would say. Hire one of them.
He would have hated the Tirico assignment. NBC's just doing this because they spent a lot of money on Tirico, only to find out the NFL doesn't want him on Thursday night NFL games. So they are putting him on other stuff.
He's not going to be very good on horse racing.
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05-01-2017, 11:14 PM
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Vic's right, of course.
I don't know if Vic ever heard the late Jim Healy, who did a 30 minute sports-comedy radio show through the 1970's and 1980's that was very popular here in LA. Healy had been a television broadcaster (he broadcast a lot of big fights in the 1960's and 1970's and is even in one of the Rocky movies as a fight announcer), and he knew a lot about television and used to talk about announcers a lot on his show. He also loved horse racing. (Fun fact, he attended the 1950 Thanksgiving Day Handicap at Hollywood Park, won by Your Host over On Trust and Ponder in a three horse photo finish, with my parents.)
Healy used to say something about horse racing on television. He watched as good sportscasters like Brent Musburger, Dick Enberg, and Howard Cosell were put on horse racing telecasts and did a terrible job. They got exposed because it's a complicated sport and they didn't know anything. So Healy implored networks not to do this. There are plenty of sportscasters who know something about horse racing, he would say. Hire one of them.
He would have hated the Tirico assignment. NBC's just doing this because they spent a lot of money on Tirico, only to find out the NFL doesn't want him on Thursday night NFL games. So they are putting him on other stuff.
He's not going to be very good on horse racing.
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I wholeheartedly agree you and I believe that anyone should get any job they are offered if they are qualified, but Tirico will flame out like candles at a birthday party as an announcer/commentator in horseracing.
Horseracing unlike any other major sport has many nuisances and the ability to comment intelligently about it in an understandable manner to a large viewing/listening audience is difficult.
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05-02-2017, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Vic's right, of course.
I don't know if Vic ever heard the late Jim Healy, who did a 30 minute sports-comedy radio show through the 1970's and 1980's that was very popular here in LA. Healy had been a television broadcaster (he broadcast a lot of big fights in the 1960's and 1970's and is even in one of the Rocky movies as a fight announcer), and he knew a lot about television and used to talk about announcers a lot on his show. He also loved horse racing. (Fun fact, he attended the 1950 Thanksgiving Day Handicap at Hollywood Park, won by Your Host over On Trust and Ponder in a three horse photo finish, with my parents.)
Healy used to say something about horse racing on television. He watched as good sportscasters like Brent Musburger, Dick Enberg, and Howard Cosell were put on horse racing telecasts and did a terrible job. They got exposed because it's a complicated sport and they didn't know anything. So Healy implored networks not to do this. There are plenty of sportscasters who know something about horse racing, he would say. Hire one of them.
He would have hated the Tirico assignment. NBC's just doing this because they spent a lot of money on Tirico, only to find out the NFL doesn't want him on Thursday night NFL games. So they are putting him on other stuff.
He's not going to be very good on horse racing.
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Isss It True..............
Yes.
I was a huge Healy fan. He spent a lot of time in the SA press box when I was just a pup taking the call for DRF.
Great guy. Sure loved horse racing. Hee-Hee-Hee
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05-02-2017, 01:51 PM
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My Kentucky Home
Tom Hammond has a piece tomorrow on NBC Sports channel on how Kentucky became home of the KD (5-530) Eastern
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05-02-2017, 02:09 PM
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Wonder which will be the features on Saturday. Im guessing Pletcher and his trio, Gunnevera and Sano's crazy kidnapping story, Irish War Cry and Rajiv Miragh's comeback from a broken back and the owner is the daughter of the guy who founded Monmouth Park named Haskell...
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05-02-2017, 02:14 PM
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Also Ashley Judd did such good jobs doing the intros but after you do this gotta wonder if they invite you back... YIKES!
she was much better when she kept it to this... one of the best intros iv seen
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05-08-2017, 04:52 PM
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i thought Tirico did a very good job. also enjoyed the special by Tom Hammond.
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05-09-2017, 03:17 PM
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Mike Tirico is just one of those guys who is good no matter what. He strikes me as just enough of a sports guy that he can survive being on air doing anything, football, figure skating, horse racing, curling you name it. I think having the future of all sports things NBC on air for racing broadcasts is a good thing. Tom Hammond was/ is great, but boy he had a lot of errors in the last couple of years. I think they are well served to keep him involved in lesser roles.
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05-09-2017, 03:25 PM
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i thought Tirico did a very good job. also enjoyed the special by Tom Hammond.
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I thought he was out of his element At one point he said the track was UPGRADED to muddy
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05-09-2017, 04:01 PM
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I thought he was out of his element At one point he said the track was UPGRADED to muddy
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And this is exactly the sort of mistake that Jim Healy used to talk about.
You just can't fake it on a horse racing telecast.
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