USA Basketball announced the 2024 Men’s National Team roster while NBC Sports announced that Noah Eagle will call games during Paris 2024. The 2024 USA Basketball Men’s National Team will compete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, set for July 26-Aug. 11, 2024. The team was selected by USA Basketball Men’s National Team managing director Grant Hill and approved by the USA Basketball Board of Directors. The team is highlighted by 12 athletes with extensive…
"USA Basketball Sets Men’s National Team Roster For Paris 2024"Tag: Olympics
NBC Sports announced that Mike Tirico and Jimmy Fallon will host the Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony on NBC and Peacock. With the countdown to the Olympic Games Paris 2024 underway, NBC Sports has unveiled its team to close out the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris this summer. Jimmy Fallon, Emmy Award-winning host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, will join two-time Sports Emmy Award-winner and NBC Olympics primetime host Mike Tirico to…
"Paris 2024: Mike Tirico, Jimmy Fallon to Host Closing Ceremony" NBCUniversal has announced their plans for over 200 hours of coverage of Making Team USA Presented by Xfinity on the road to Paris 2024. The Paris Olympics will not kick off until late July but NBCUniversal is going into full gear. Their coverage will span NBC, Peacock, and USA Network. It will include a record 14 nights of Primetime coverage on NBC with 45 hours on NBC. All events will stream live on Peacock. The…
"Team USA: NBC Sets U.S. Olympic Trials Coverage – Paris 2024"
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer will be bigger than ever with the Opening Ceremony heading to the IMAX screen. The NBC television network will extend its live coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony to IMAX locations nationwide on Friday, July 26 — the first time ever the global event will be presented live in IMAX, it was announced today. The plans for the Opening Ceremony are unlike any other. The first-ever…
"2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony is Coming to IMAX"
Kevin Macdonald’s Oscar-winning documentary about the 1972 Munich Massacre, One Day in September, marks its 25th anniversary this year. “When I was a kid my father used to say our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized. Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said there were eleven hostages; two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight. They’re all gone.” – Jim McKay,…
"One Day in September: The Munich Olympics Massacre"
Fourteen months remain until the 2024 Paris Olympics began but NBCUniversal announced that NBC and Peacock will be their main platforms. When the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad kick off next summer, NBCUniversal will be utilizing the NBC broadcast network and streaming service Peacock for its primary coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, scheduled for July 26-August 11, 2024. Every day, NBC will provide Olympic fans with at least nine hours of daytime coverage…
"2024 Paris Olympics: NBCUniversal Announces NBC, Peacock Plans"
The Opening Ceremony is the main attraction as the Winter Olympics officially kick off after two days of programming from Beijing. While the Biden Administration is boycotting the Beijing games diplomatically because of what’s happening in China, the White House portico was displaying red, white, and blue colors on Thursday night. Personally, I believe the Beijing games should not be happening because of the human rights issues in China. Either that or Team USA should…
"Beijing 2022: Friday’s Olympics Schedule" Primetime coverage on NBC is the main attraction as the Winter Olympics coverage from Beijing leads up to Friday’s opening ceremony. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3 The 2018 gold medal-winning U.S. women’s ice hockey team begins its gold medal defense in opening round play against Finland tomorrow live at 8:10 a.m. ET on USA Network and Peacock. Pre-game coverage gets underway at 7:30 a.m. ET. The team features 13 players from the 2018 Olympic team, including Kendall…
"Beijing 2022: Thursday’s Olympics Schedule" NBC Sports will formally kick off their coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing with curling, alpine skiing, and hockey on USA. NBCUniversal’s comprehensive coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics begins tonight with live primetime coverage of ice hockey, curling, and alpine skiing. Live coverage gets underway when the U.S. mixed doubles curling team faces Italy at 8 p.m. ET on USA Network and Peacock. Medal contender Canada opens Olympic ice hockey competition against…
"Beijing 2022: NBC Sports Kicks Off Winter Olympics"
The Weight of Gold is a documentary that seeks to explore Olympic athletes and what going for gold means for their mental health. When the film premiered in July 2020, it came at a time when we should have been watching athletes compete in Tokyo. However, the pandemic meant delaying the games until the following summer. The film brought mental health into the conversation just one year before the same subject would dominate the Summer…
"The Weight of Gold: The Olympics and Mental Health"