Behind The Mic: Joe Buck Goes Back to MLB Booth for Brewers-Yankees on Opening Day; Sportsnet, NESN Get Ready for 2025 MLB Season With Respective Teams By SVG Staff
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Behind The Mic provides a roundup of recent news regarding on-air talent, including new deals, departures, and assignments compiled from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week's edition, Reggie Miller officially joins NBC Sports as a game analyst, Joe Buck will call a one-off game between the Milwaukee Bucks and New York Yankees on Opening Day, and more.
Joe Buck To Call Milwaukee Brewers vs. New York Yankees on Opening Day on ESPN Joe Buck, the voice of ESPN's Monday Night Football and veteran of 24 World Series, will call his first national Major League Baseball game since the 2021 World Series on Thursday, March 27. Buck will provide play-by-play for ESPN's exclusive MLB Opening Day presentation of the Milwaukee Brewers at New York Yankees game, beginning at 3 p.m. ET from Yankee Stadium. YES Network analyst Joe Girardi and Brewers analyst Bill Schroeder will join Buck to form a three-person booth for the special broadcast. Buck joined ESPN in 2022 to become the voice of Monday Night Football, alongside analyst Troy Aikman and reporter Lisa Salters.
The Brewers vs. Yankees game is the first half of an ESPN's exclusive Opening Day doubleheader. At 7 p.m. ET, the defending World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Detroit Tigers. The Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team - Karl Ravech, analysts Eduardo P rez and David Cone, and reporter Buster Olney - will call the action.
ESPN Signs Quentin Richardson
ESPN NBA analyst
Played 13 NBA seasons (2000-13)
Will regularly appear on SportsCenter and ESPN digital platforms
Co-host of the Knuckleheads podcast
Reggie Miller To Join NBC Sports Beginning With 2025-2026 NBA Season Reggie Miller, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and one of the game's greatest shooters and clutch performers, will join NBC Sports as a lead game analyst beginning with the 2025-26 season when the NBA returns to NBC and debuts on Peacock this October.
Miller played all 18 seasons of his professional career with the Indiana Pacers and is the team's all-time leader in points scored, assists, and steals. His illustrious career includes countless milestones and accomplishments: retired with the most three-point shots made in NBA history (2,560, which now ranks third); a five-time NBA All-Star; led Indiana to the NBA Finals in 2000; won a gold medal with Team USA at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics; was selected to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team; and culminated his career with enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2004, Miller won the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, which is the NBA's annual community service award.
Following his playing career, Miller joined Turner Sports as a broadcaster, receiving critical acclaim as a game analyst throughout his 20-year career. In addition to the regular season, Miller called numerous NBA All-Star games and playoff series, including Conference Finals. He will continue his role with Turner Sports through the end of the 2024-25 season. When Miller joins NBC Sports in October, he is expected to call one or more games per week during the regular season and playoffs.
In addition to Miller, NBC Sports announced earlier this month that Jamal Crawford will join its coverage as a game analyst and that Mike Tirico will serve as its lead play-by-play voice. Emmy Award-winning producer Frank DiGraci was announced in December 2024 as the coordinating producer for NBC Sports' NBA coverage.
NYF TV & Film Awards To Honor Trailblazer Lesley Visser With Lifetime Achievement Award New York Festivals Television & Film Awards will honor pioneering sports journalist and Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Lesley Visser with the New York Festivals 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award in May.
A true innovator in sports journalism, Visser has made history as the first woman to achieve numerous milestones in the industry, earning her place as the most highly acclaimed female sportscaster of all time.
A nine-time Hall of Fame inductee, Lesley Visser is the most highly acclaimed female sportscaster of all time with a long list of firsts to her credit. She was the first woman inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the first to win the Lifetime Achievement Sports Emmy, and the first recipient of the Vin Scully Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.
Visser broke new ground as the first woman to appear on network broadcasts of the Final Four, the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, and the World Series, and remains the only woman to have presented the Lombardi Trophy at the Super Bowl. A true trailblazer, she was the first woman on ABC's Monday Night Football, the first female sportscaster to carry the Olympic Torch, and the only recipient of the Billie Jean King Outstanding Journalist Award. Among her many honors, Visser has been named a Muhammad Ali Daughter of Greatness and was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists alongside CBS legend Marvin Kalb.
In her impressive 50-year career, Lesley Visser has reported on some of the most pivotal moments in history, from the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to Martina Navratilova's return to Prague after defecting, and to Shanghai for HBO's Real Sports with Yao Ming before his NBA draft.
Lesley Visser's groundbreaking career began at the Boston Globe in 1974, after winning a prestigious Carnegie Foundation Grant, awarded to just 20 women across the country seeking careers in fields dominated by men. Two years later, she made history as the first woman to cover the NFL for the Globe, at a time when press box
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Behind The Mic: Joe Buck Goes Back to MLB Booth for Brewers-Yankees on Opening Day; Sportsnet, NESN Get Ready for 2025 MLB Season With Respective Teams By SVG Staff 
