Before Hosting the Next Olympics, Mike Tirico Must Get Through a Sportscaster’s Decathlon
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMike Tirico’s autumn has converged with his spring and summer.The NBC sportscaster had originally planned to take one really big trip this year – to Tokyo, where he was slated to hold forth at the 2020 Olympics. But that was scuttled and now he’s racing through lots of shorter excursions, several of them for events he was supposed to anchor weeks and months ago.Tirico has held forth at the Indianapolis 500, originally scheduled for May, and called the fall opening game between Duke and Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.