http://deadspin.com/report-mike-tirico-to-leave-espn-for-nbc-1772965577

For their limited Thursday night package this year and eventually to replace Al Michaels. Doubt he'll do hockey. And that's all NBC has. Plus the olympics.

Shocked he left ESPN where he was able to do NFL, NBA and Golf.

I know contracts with the sports leagues change. Maybe NBC will pick up the NBA again.

He'll probably play a big role in the Olympics. Beyond that maybe he wanted a lighter schedule. Whenever he talks about Silvy and Waddle he talks about going to games with his son. Maybe he wants be home more and NBC was offering similar money for less work?

ESPN has been hemorrhaging high-paid staff.

Tirico is really versatile as he is credible at football, golf, and basketball. In addition to NBC, don't be surprised if he ends up on the Golf Channel and NBCSN a fair amount.

And obviously he's going to show up just in time to go to Rio for the Summer Olympics.

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Beardown, why did you correct the link to a story about this instead of the picture of Mac and a fish you originally posted?

NBC airs far more golf than ESPN does.

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This sucks. I can't imagine Monday Night without Tirico.

After Al Michaels, he is probably the best at what he does.

Maybe he's jumping to NBC to be Al's replacement after his contract is up next year?

Get rid of Collinsworth, I've had my fill of him. He's just a guy.

Here Are Those Tirico Stories We Hinted At Last Week

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Here Are Those Tirico Stories We Hinted At Last Week
Last week, while discussing Harold Reynolds' firing from ESPN for sexual harassment, we — in retrospect, somewhat flippantly — pointed out that what Reynolds was accused of paled in comparison to some of the allegations against Mike Tirico in Mike Freeman's 2000 book ESPN: An Uncensored History. We'd read the book, so we assumed the passages about Tirico had entered the general lexicon. We were wrong; you pretty much can't find them anywhere on Google.

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So, allow us to change that. The book — which was released in trade paperback by relatively small publishing company Taylor Trade Publishing — is in front of us, and we're summarize some fun passages for you. It's worth noting, by the way, that Tirico, ultimately, comes across positively in the book, as a family man who had a problem and did what he could to help himself get "well." And it still doesn't take down the classic "Gary Miller shaving his ass at a party" story, which is probably unbeatable.

But that doesn't make it any less salacious. After the jump, the book's top Tirico passages.

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The first Tirico story involves him hitting on a woman and stalking her after a house party in fall 1992. The woman was a production assistant and "considered an up-and-coming talent," and Tirico went up to her at the party and said "you're the most beautiful woman in here." She walked away, but he kept following her around the party until she finally snapped, "Why don't you fuck off? Get away from me." As she and friends hopped in their car and pulled out of the party, Tirico stepped in front of the car and made the woman stop. "You're the most beautiful person I've ever seen and I think I'm in love with you," Tirico said. She tried to roll up her window and take off, but Tirico stuck his hand in and tried to wedge it between her thighs.



She got away, and the next morning, when they saw each other in the ESPN parking lot, he walked up to her, and she expected him to apologize. Instead, he said, "all I did all day was think about you."

In another story, one female producer — who had been to dinner with Tirico and his fiancee — was startled to receive an email from him saying that he wanted to sleep with her. Later, when the staff went to a bar after a late night covering the NCAA tournament, Tirico approached her and said, "I wish I was single. If I were, I'd throw you on the table right here and fuck your brains out." After she tried to excuse him as drunk, he persisted: "I know you want to screw me. So let's leave." Later, he followed her on the highway and tried to get her to pull over, unsuccessfully.

Tirico was ultimately suspended for three months and is interviewed in the book, where he, like Reynolds, calls the incidents "misunderstandings." He is now doing "Monday Night Football" and is still married.

We are talking about Mike Tirco though.

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NBC has a lot of golf too.

ESPN is letting the big money guys go as their revenue is dropping. Kinda like Chicago radio.

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