TIRICO, SHAUGHNESSY, EAGLE, ROSENTHAL HEADLINE NATIONAL SPORTS MEDIA ASSOCIATION 65th AWARDS BANQUET

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 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 of the Year” from all over the country during the awards banquet.

“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. He is best known for accompanying Jackie Robinson for two years as Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball.

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.

In addition to the headliners, the NSMA will present the Woody Durham Voice of College Sports Award to Ray Goss of Duquesne University, the Big House Gaines College Basketball Coach of the Year Awards to Dennis Gates of the University of Missouri and Tyreece Brown of Fayetteville (NC) State University, and the Jim Nantz Award to the nation’s most outstanding collegiate broadcaster, Jack Smith, a recent graduate of the University of Southern California.

Detailed event information, the schedule of events and the links to purchase tickets are available at www.nationalsportsmedia.org.

Schedule for Monday, June 30, 2025:

Event Registration: 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Feedback Session (for Convergence Summit registrants): 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Sports Media Convergence Summit: 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Dinner Reception: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Dinner/Awards Ceremony: 6:05 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

ABOUT THE NSMA:

Founded in 1959, the NSMA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that develops educational opportunities for individuals interested in pursuing a career in sports media through networking, internships, mentoring, and scholarship programs. The NSMA also honors, preserves, and celebrates the diverse legacy of sports media in the United States. For additional information, please scan the QR code above, or visit www.nationalsportsmedia.org.

Contact: Dave Goren, NSMA Executive Director

Email: dgoren@nationalsportsmedia.org

(336) 655-2976

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