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Jul 17, 2017 · Longtime ESPN broadcaster-turned-NBC Sports announcer Mike Tirico doesn’t believe himself to be black. To hear him tell it, he’s just an Italian kid who grew up in Queens, N.Y., who people...
Twitter users were generally confounded when NBC Sports announcer Mike Tirico essentially said he wasn’t black Saturday. Instead, Tirico considers himself an Italian guy who grew up in...
- Mike Tirico Has Had A Successful Broadcasting Career
- Addressing His Race in A 1991 Interview
- What Has Mike Tirico Said About His Race More recently?
In the world of sports broadcasting, the sound of Mike Tirico’s voice might not send viewers running to their televisions. With that being said, though, the NBC sportscaster has still had quite the career. Tirico cut his teeth in New York state, attending Syracuse University and working as the sports director at a local CBS affiliate. In 1991, he m...
As someone who’s been a member of the media for more than 30 years, Mike Tirico has done his share of interviews. One of them, however, continues to resurface decades later. In a 1991 story from Syracuse’s The Post-Standard, the discussion drifted toward race. That’s where Tirico’s headline-grabbing position surfaced. “Local African-American groups...
While Mike Tirico’s made those comments almost three decades ago, they still surface from time to time on social media. Based on that reality, it’s not surprising that he prefers to avoid discussing his race these days. In 2017, for example, Tirico was the subject of aNew York Timesstory. There, race—and a reference to the 1991 interview—came up as...
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Jul 19, 2017 · Mike Tirico has been the talk of Twitter for a few days now after telling the New York Times over the weekend that he's Italian and not Black. When asked about his African-American lineage,...
Jul 18, 2017 · NBC Sportscaster Mike Tirico Says He's Not Black | VladTV. Tone Are. Contributing Writer. Jul 18, 2017 9:17 AM. 10,838 views. The New York Times recently ran a feature story on sportscaster Mike Tirico, in which a question that has loomed for some who've read about him over the course of his career comes up for conversation.
Jul 18, 2017 · The Root ran a headline that said "Wait, NBC Sports Announcer Mike Tirico isn't black?" and Awful Announcing said "Tirico's reluctance to discuss his racial identity sparked a lot of...
Jul 17, 2017 · Of course, while some will see Tirico as distancing himself from black identity and (naively) believing himself immune to effects of anti-black racism just because he proclaims himself...
