Mike Tirico
FameRank: 6

"Michael Todd "Mike" Tirico" is an announcer for ESPN's presentation of Monday Night Football. In addition, Tirico calls a multitude of programming for ESPN/American Broadcasting Company/ABC, including college basketball, the NBA, golf and tennis. He is also one of the anchors of the 2014 World Cup along with Bob Ley.

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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.

... On TV, you can get a sense of this is some place you would love to go play.

It's the best play-by-play chair in sports. To be the next person to sit in it is humbling.

For me, it's the thrill of a lifetime.

They're going to burn the city of Detroit down if the Pistons win, and it's not worth it.

I'm pleasantly surprised by the natural chemistry. It eventually develops over time between every group of [commentators], but there's a lot of natural chemistry here for two people who were in the same small circle of 50 guys for [two decades], who were at a lot of the same events and in the same locker rooms but didn't know each other.

This will show off one of the most beautiful courses, a great, restored course.