NBC SPORTS’ MIKE TIRICO, BOSTON GLOBE’S DAN SHAUGHNESSY HEADLINE NATIONAL SPORTS MEDIA ASSOCIATION 65th AWARDS BANQUET

Ian Eagle, Ken Rosenthal to Accept Sportscaster, Sportswriter of the Year

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GREENSBORO, N.C. --- NBC Sports’ sportscaster Mike Tirico and Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy will be inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame during its 65^th annual Awards Banquet and National Convention on Monday, June 30, 2025, the organization announced today. The event returns to its new home, Grandover Resort – a Wyndham Grand Hotel, for the second consecutive year.

Tirico and Shaughnessy will be joined in the Hall of Fame inductions by posthumous selections Charlie Jones and Wendell Smith.

Ian Eagle, of CBS, Westwood One, and TNT, was voted the 2024 National Sportscaster of the Year, while The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal was voted the 2024 National Sportswriter of the Year. It is the second NSMA national award for each of them. NSMA will also recognize sportscasters and sportswriters from 49 states and the District of Columbia.

“We are thrilled to be back at Grandover Resort for this year’s awards banquet and national convention,” NSMA Board Chairman Wes Durham said. “Last year’s event was fantastic, and we look forward to inducting this year’s class into the Hall of Fame and recognizing our sportscasters and sportswriters of the year. Hosting our events at Grandover made a tremendous impact on everyone who attended last year’s events, and we look forward to an even better experience in year two.”

Earlier that day, NSMA will host its highly-popular Sports Media Convergence Summit. Each session of this seminar is a guide to success from impact people in the industry covering all aspects of sports media for college students and awards banquet attendees. New this year, the event will be live-streamed allowing those unable to attend to purchase an online ticket to take part in the event.

“Hosting the convergence summit might be the most important role NSMA plays, and live streaming it will be a game changer for this event,” Durham added. “This addition will allow us to deliver NSMA programming to exponentially more people with an expansion of our reach that really has no limit. The more young people we can help succeed in sports media, the better the future of the industry can be.”

Tirico is the lead voice on NBC’s biggest sports events, including Sunday Night Football, the Olympics, the Kentucky Derby, and the U.S. Open and Open Championship golf majors. Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and associate editor at the Boston Globe, where he has spent 47 years over two stints. Jones was best known for the nearly 40 years he spent as a network television football play-by-play announcer, starting in 1960 broadcasting American Football League games on ABC. Smith, a Detroit, Mich. native and West Virginia State College graduate began writing for the Pittsburgh Courier, then the largest national black newspaper in the country.

A five-time New York Sportscaster of the Year and 2022 National Sportscaster of the Year, Eagle is about to enter his 28^th season at CBS. Rosenthal, senior baseball writer for The Athletic, is a University of Pennsylvania graduate who also serves as a field reporter for FOX Sports’ Major League Baseball coverage. Among the state winners, Don Fischer, the radio play-by-play voice of the Indiana University Hoosiers, was voted that state’s Sportscaster of the Year for the 28^th time.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Monday, June 30, 2025

EVENT RESERVATIONS (No tickets. Names will be at registration for events)

***Registration links will be emailed to awards winners.

HOTEL (Cutoff date for guarantee is June 2):

Grandover Resort & Spa -- a Wyndham Grand Hotel; 1000 Club Rd, Greensboro, NC, 27407

NSMA's discounted rooms are, including state/local taxes (currently 12.75%, but subject to change without notice), approximately $204/night.

Guests may make reservations by calling the reservations line at 336-294-1800 and stating the booking code “062725NSMA”

AIRPORTS:

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Contact: Dave Goren, Executive Director

Email: dgoren@nationalsportsmedia.org

Mobile: 336-655-2976