Dan Hicks (sportscaster)

Dan Hicks has been a sportscaster for NBC since 1992. His best well-known assignments are covering golf and the Olympic Games. Here are a few of Hicks' best calls and quotes.

Table of contents

1 Golf
2 From the Olympics

2.1 2000 Summer Olympics
2.2 2002 Winter Olympics

Golf

"What a shot by Craig Parry! Unbelievable! Championship over!"-Hicks made this call on March 7, 2004, after Australian Craig Parry holed out of a playoff at the Ford Championship at Doral in Florida by sinking a spectacular shot from the fairway, becoming the first player since 1990 to win a PGA TOUR event by holing out during a playoff.

"A remarkable week by a remarkable player on a remarkable golf course."-Hicks' thoughts on Tiger Woods' amazing victory at the 2000 U.S. Open in Pebble Beach, California. Woods defeated his closest competitor by 15 strokes.

From the Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

Hicks is NBC's stroke-by-stroke commentator at the Summer Games. Here's some of his calls from Sydney:

"Ian Thorpe has a new world record, and this time it's for Olympic gold!"-Hicks' call after Ian Thorpe won the first of three gold medals in front of his home crowd at Sydney, this coming in swimming's 400-meter freestyle event.

"And the streak is over! Australia wins gold! In world record time!"-Later that night, Thorpe anchored an upset gold medal win in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay over the United States, the first time the U.S. had ever been beaten in this event.

2002 Winter Olympics

Hicks is NBC's speed skating commentator at the Winter Games. Here's a few of his calls from Salt Lake City:

"LeMay Doan is gonna win this pair, and is going to win the gold medal!"-Hicks' call as Canadian speed skater Catriona LeMay Doan won her second straight gold medal in speed skating's 500-meter event.

"Witty will finish on the inner. Has altered her training drastically leading into these Olympic Games, had no idea what kinda time she could turn in, trying to shake off the effects of mono. 1:14.45 is the time to beat, and she's well under it, in a world record for Chris Witty!"-After American Chris Witty won gold in the 1000-meter event with a new world record.

"It was Uytdehaage who set the world record and stole the gold from Parra in the 5000, and the time for Parra here is...a world record! So he returns the favor!"-On the first day of competition at Salt Lake, American Derek Parra, in his first Olympics at age 31, was leading in the 5000-meter event, until Holland's Jochem Uytdehaage stole the gold medal and the world record from Parra. Parra ended up not medaling in that event, so not only did he win gold in the 1500-meter event days later, he exacted revenge against Uytdehaage by setting a new world record himself.