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Al Michaels staying with MNF on ESPN

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It'll be a 2-man booth with Michaels & Joe Theismann. Suzi Kolber & Michelle Tafoya will be sideline reporters. Paul Maguire will join the MNF pregame show with Chris Berman, expanded to 2 hours. No announcement on Mike Patrick except that he is expected to remain with ESPN in some capacity.

None of this is a surprise. I didn't think Michaels would leave his gig with both MNF and the NBA. He's been there 29 years and never really wanted to leave, even after being approached by NBC.

Also, NBC announced that Bob Costas will be their in-studio host on SNF.

<a target="_blank" href=http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-michaels-mnf&prov=ap&type=lgns>Link: Yahoo Sports</a>
 
I suspect he will also remain with sister network ABC for NBA basketball.

Quite frankly, I'm very surprised.

I fully expected Al Michaels would have jumped to NBC to both call play-by-play of "Sunday Night Football" beginning in 2006 and to also be the lead play-by-play man of the NHL beginning this coming season, as well as lead hockey play-by-play at the Winter Olympics in Turin next year and Vancouver in 2010.

This also means that Mike Patrick probably won't be doing NFL play-by-play after the upcoming season (unless he moves to NBC to join John Madden on the Sunday-night games or, in a longshot, takes a local radio NFL play-by-play gig), and that Gary Thorne will likely be NBC's lead play-by-play man for both the NHL this coming year and Olympic hockey at Turin.
 
> This also means that Mike Patrick probably won't be doing
> NFL play-by-play after the upcoming season (unless he moves
> to NBC to join John Madden on the Sunday-night games or, in
> a longshot, takes a local radio NFL play-by-play gig), and
> that Gary Thorne will likely be NBC's lead play-by-play man
> for both the NHL this coming year and Olympic hockey at
> Turin.
>

Mike Patrick will remain on ESPN to do men's and women's college basketball.

Gary Thore will remain on ABC (college football) and ESPN (baseball and yes, they will re-sign with the NHL, trust me). His contract that still has two years on it forbids him from doing work outside the Disney family, with the exception of the Olympics. He is a part of the talent and production sharing agreement that ESPN has with NBC for the Olympics.

Mike Emrick has been quietly hired by NBC to be the lead play-by-play man on their NHL telecasts, where he will likely be paired with his former NHL on FOX partner, John Davidson.
 
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