Barry Tompkins Biography
Barry Tompkins an American journalist from San Francisco working as a sportscaster for Fox Sports as of February 18, 2012.
Barry Tompkins Age
Tompkins was born on 2 May 1940 in San Francisco, Ca. He celebrates his birthday on 2 May yearly.
Barry Tompkins ESPN
Tompkins relocated to New York back in 1974 and join WNBC-TV as a sports anchor and feature reporter. He later joined NBC Sports in 1975 to host weekly radio shows as well as television play-by-play for basketball and football.
In 1978, he got back to San Francisco and joined then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV as sports director. He aired the Pac-10 basketball for NBC also feature stories for its NFL pre-game show. In 1980, Barry left KRON to join the then-fledgling cable channel HBO.
He thereafter joined the faculty at Dominican University of California as a professor for the university’s Communications Department back in 2013. He got hired by the Mountain West Conference working as their #1 play-by-play broadcaster for the new MWC regional package on Time Warner Cable SportsNet (started after Mtn folded after spring 2012). He was later assigned Jay Leeuwenburg as his color analyst.
He after joined Showtime Sports back in February 18, 2012, as the blow-by-blow voice of the network’s ShoBox series and ShoExtreme series with veteran analyst Steve Farhood.
Barry Tompkins Family
Tompkins was born and raised in San Francisco. He has not shared information about his family with the public. We will update this section as soon as he shares it out.
Barry Tompkins Wife
Tompkins is married to Joan Ryan an award-winning journalist and author. She was a pioneer in sports journalism, becoming one of the first female sports columnists in the country. She has aired every major sporting event from the Super Bowl and the World Series to the Olympics and championship fights. Joan’s sports columns . The couple has a son, Ryan together and they live in Sausalito California.
Ryan has won 13 Associated Press Sports Editors Awards, the National Headliner Award, and the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Journalism Award, among other honors.
She has also penned four books: including Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty. The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance. Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
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Barry Tompkins HBO
Barry rose to fame alongside Larry Merchant and Sugar Ray Leonard as a member of the HBO Boxing show’s team at HBO. He called fights at HBO for many years and some of his commentaries became famous.
He called Alexis Argüello who got hurt by Aaron Pryor in round fourteen of their Battle of the Champions (Arguello…oh! Arguello is hurt!!), when Héctor Camacho was buckled by Edwin Rosario in round five of their fight (Camacho had never been hurt before!) and also when Mike Tyson won the WBC world heavyweight title with a second-round knockout of Trevor Berbick (And we have a new era in boxing.).
He earned the Sam Taub Award for excellence in boxing broadcasting journalism in 1992. He also hosted HBO’s baseball program, Race for the Pennant.
Barry Tompkins ESPN
He joined ESPN network, where he play-by-play on Thursday Night Fights alongside Al Bernstein. he as well did the college basketball, The French Open, and many other tennis tournaments, the Tour De France, World Track and also Field and Swimming and Diving Championships as well as the World Gymnastics Championships. T that time, he continued to be “The Voice” of Pac 10 (now 12) Conference football for various syndicators.
Barry Tompkins Fox Sports
He left ESPN back in 1995 to join Fox Sports as the play-by-play announcer of Sunday Night Fights, and he moved through the United States with Sean O’ Grady and Rich Marotta. He moved on as the lead play-by-play commentator of FSN’s coverage of Pac-12 football with Petros Papadakis and basketball with Dan Belluomini, Marques Johnson, Don McClean, and Ernie Kent through 2011. He as well commentated on much of FSN’s poker coverage, including the Aussie Millions and Poker Dome Challenge.
Barry Tompkins Salary
Tompkins earns an estimated salary ranging from $53,420 to $112,985 yearly.
Barry Tompkins Net Worth
Barry has an estimated net worth range of between $500,000-$1 million. Journalism as his career is his main source of wealth and income.