NBC Olympics has announced that veteran sportscaster Alex Flanagan will return for her fifth Olympic Games and six new reporters have been added to the network’s coverage of the Xxxi Olympiad from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. NBC News correspondents Anne Thompson, Craig Melvin, Gadi Schwartz, Jill Martin and NBC Sports Group’s Rutledge Wood and Dalen Cuff will also head to Rio to cover their first Olympics. Flanagan previously served as a reporter in Vancouver in 2010, London in 2012, and Sochi in 2014, and was a host of CNBC and USA Network coverage during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Also Read: Pregnant Savannah Guthrie...
- 6/8/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Dan Hicks, NBC Sports Group.s longtime and critically-acclaimed golf and Olympic commentator, will join NBC Sports. Notre Dame Football coverage this season as its lead play-by-play voice. His first assignment comes this Saturday, April 20, when NBC Sports Network presents Notre Dame Football.s 84th Annual Blue-Gold Game at 1 p.m. Et. Hicks is well-known for his coverage of high-profile events, such as the PGA Tour, the U.S. Open, the Ryder Cup, Olympic speed skating and Olympic swimming, which includes all of Michael Phelps. 18 gold medal victories. Hicks also has significant football experience, having called NFL games in the 1990s for NBC.s Afc package. Earlier this year, he teamed with Mike Mayock and Alex Flanagan for the Afc...
- 4/15/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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