Former Fox Sports NFL analyst Tony Siragusa has died; longtime CBS analyst Nick Faldo is retiring. Also: Jamie Erdahl and Charissa Thompson are the latest winners in NFL media’s musical chairs, and ESPN’s Chris Evert says she has completed chemotherapy.
Former Fox analyst Tony Siragusa dies
Former Fox Sports NFL analyst Tony Siragusa died Wednesday at 55. Siragusa was a fixture on NFL broadcasts for more than a decade, serving as a sideline analyst for Fox Sports from 2003 through the 2015 season — spending most of those years on the network’s “B” team alongside Kenny Albert and Daryl Johnston. Since leaving Fox, he co-hosted the long-running “Man Caves” on DIY Network. [AP 6.22]
Nick Faldo retiring from broadcasting
Longtime CBS golf analyst Nick Faldo announced Tuesday that he is retiring from broadcasting effective at the end of the current season. His final broadcast will be the CBS season finale at the Wyndham Championship in August. Faldo, who has been the lead analyst for CBS golf telecasts since 2007, will be replaced by Trevor Immelman. [CBS Sports PR]
Erdahl gets Good Morning Football; Amazon fills out studio show
CBS sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl will fill the vacancy left by Kay Adams on the NFL Network show “Good Morning Football,” the New York Post reported Tuesday. Erdahl joined CBS in 2014 and has been the network’s lead sideline reporter on college football games since 2018. It was not immediately clear how or if her new role will affect her CBS duties.
As for the show’s former host, Adams was considered a contender to host Amazon’s Thursday Night Football studio show, but the Post reported last week that the position will instead go to Fox Sports’ Charissa Thompson. That decision has not been made official, but Amazon has announced the rest of its studio team — which will consist of newly-retired analysts Ryan Fitzpatrick and Richard Sherman alongside former CBS and Fox analyst Tony Gonzalez. [NYP 6.13, 6.21]
ESPN’s Evert finishes chemotherapy
ESPN tennis analyst Chris Evert, who is battling cancer, said Wednesday that she has completed six rounds of chemotherapy and that she has a 90-95 percent chance that her cancer will not come back. Evert plans to cover Wimbledon for ESPN, but is currently recovering from COVID-19 and has no timeline on when she will arrive at the tournament. [ESPN PR]
