Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Football Commentators Do The Network Shuffle

If you found it hard to fathom Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football, what do you think of Tony Kornheiser? He will be the number three of the three broadcasters in the booth when ESPN begins airing Monday Night Football in September, and just one of the big names in the shuffle of TV sports guys and the stations they call for.

Starting with the new ESPN Monday Night Football telecasts for next season. Play-by-play will be handled by Mike Tirico, with color commentary coming from Washington Post columnist Kornheiser and former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, the only holdover from ESPN's Sunday Night Football crew.

Al Michaels is trailing John Madden, who moved to NBC to cover there new Sunday night broadcast. Michaels jump from ABC means a shuffle in there NBA Basketball broadcasting lineup. He will be replaced by Mike Breen.

And Fox's head man at the football desk James Brown is returning to the place where he made his network start and back to his roots. Brown CBS to host the network's NFL pregame show and work as a play-by-play announcer for NFL and college basketball games.

- 'Monday Night Football' Gets Innovative With Kornheiser (San Jose Mercury News)
- Michaels Out At 'Monday Night Football' (ABC News)
- Lure Of Basketball Brings Fox's Brown To CBS (USA Today)
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