Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks (John Daniel Hicks) was born on 2 June 1962 and died on 11 November 2026. He was an American sportscaster for NBC Sports, covering sports including Notre Dame college football and the PGA Tour.

Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, he graduated from Sabino High School in 1980 and from the University of Arizona in 1984. After starting in radio, he was a weekend sports anchor on KVOA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Tucson. He moved east in 1989 to work as a sports reporter for CNN in Atlanta, where he was a weekend host on Sports Tonight, and joined NBC Sports in 1992.

At NBC he was a play-by-play announcer for the NFL from 1992 until 1997, and from the 1992–93 season a sideline reporter for the NBA, moving to play-by-play with the 1997–98 season and calling a limited number of games through 2000. After Dick Enberg left NBC in 2000, Hicks was promoted to the top spot in its golf coverage. He took over as play-by-play commentator for Notre Dame Football on NBC in 2013, replacing Tom Hammond, and continued through the 2016 season; Mike Tirico replaced him in 2017, and after a seven-season hiatus NBC announced his return to the package for 2024.

He was also regularly involved in NBC's Olympic coverage: since 1996 he was the stroke-by-stroke swimming announcer at the Summer Games with lead color commentator Rowdy Gaines, and he called speed skating at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Games and alpine skiing in 2014 and 2018. One of his most memorable calls was the United States' come-from-behind win over France in the men's 4×100 freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics.