Life and Career
He is also the primary anchor for the network's sports updates every weekend. Hicks is also heavily involved in NBC's Olympic Games coverage. During the Summer Olympics, Hicks is the stroke-by-stroke announcer for swimming, and he is the play-by-play announcer for speed skating for the Winter Olympics, in addition to serving as co-host of the Closing Ceremony. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Hicks called diving. At the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics, Hicks served as late-night anchor, although in 2004, Pat O'Brien served as late-night host for the first week of the games because of Hicks' swimming duties. Hicks also hosted the former CNBC show, The Olympic Show. He served as the play by play announcer for NBC's coverage of Speed Skating in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Hicks also served as the play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports coverage of Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
His biggest job before joining NBC was as a sports reporter for CNN, where he met his wife, Hannah Storm, who is an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter. Hicks and Storm have been married since January 8, 1994. They have three daughters.
One of Hicks' most memorable calls came during the men's 4x100 freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as he announced the USA's come-from-behind win over France:
| “ | The United States trying to hang on to second; they should get the Silver medal. Australia is in Bronze territory right now, but Lezak is closing a little bit on Bernard. Can the veteran chase him down and pull off a shocker here? "Well there's no doubt that he's tightening up!" Bernard is losing some ground. Here comes Lezak! UNBELIEVABLE AT THE END! HE'S DONE IT! THE U.S. HAS DONE IT! "HE DID IT!" A NEW WORLD RECORD! "HE DID IT! HE DID IT!" Phelps' hope's alive! | ” |
Hicks graduated from the University of Arizona in 1984. He is also known to do good impressions of former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, and fellow NBC Sports colleague Bob Costas, and once had his impression of former President of the United States Richard Nixon as the outgoing message on his answering machine.
He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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