Sports commentator
Todd Harris
Play-by-playHostNarration
Emmy-winning commentator with twelve Olympic Games behind him — and a thirty-five-year habit of saying yes to sports nobody had yet figured out how to call.
- Olympic Games
- 12 Olympic Games
- Straight Winter Games
- 7 Straight Winter Games
- Yrs, World's Strongest Man
- 18 Yrs, World's Strongest Man
- Years on air
- 35 Years on air
- Emmy Award
- 1 Emmy Award
Range
“I can cover that.”
That was the answer, every time a producer called with a sport that had no template yet. It is why the list below runs as long as it does — and why it is still getting longer.
- Snowboarding
- Sailing
- Strongman
- Supercross
- Skateboarding
- BMX
- Freeskiing
- Alpine skiing
- Cycling
- Basketball
- College football
- MMA
- Surfing
- Motocross
- Triathlon
- IndyCar
- Swimming
- Track and field
- Bowling
- Jet ski racing
- and so on…
This season
Where he is right now
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Milano Cortina
2026NBC Olympics — Play-by-play — snowboarding & freestyle
His twelfth Olympic assignment and seventh consecutive Winter Games, alongside analysts Lindsey Jacobellis, Todd Richards and Tom Wallisch.
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SailGP
Season 6World feed — Lead play-by-play
Lead commentary voice of the global championship since its Bermuda debut in 2021, carried in more than 170 countries.
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NBA
CurrentPrime Video — International feed commentator
Calling the league for the world feed — a return to the sport he covered through six seasons of playoffs at Turner.
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This Sporting Planet
WeeklyPodcast — Co-host
A weekly global sports show with broadcasters on four continents, unpacking not just what happened but why it happened.
On location
Thirty-five years of turning up
Mountainsides, dockyards, arenas and outside-broadcast desks — mostly shot by Todd, between calls.
In his words
“It is funny how things just fall into place. I always tell my kids not to get too hung up on the door that closes, because there is a good chance another door is going to open.”
“The pure form of journalism, when you are writing without bias and just giving facts and not ideology, is so important — now more than ever.”
Career
Selected credits
- Olympic Games
- 12 Olympic Games
- Years, World's Strongest Man
- 18 Years, World's Strongest Man
- Rose Bowls
- 7 Rose Bowls
- Tours de France
- 5 Tours de France
- CFB National Championships
- 3 CFB National Championships
- Indianapolis 500s
- 2 Indianapolis 500s
- America's Cups
- 2 America's Cups
Olympic Games
- 2026 Milano Cortina — snowboarding, freestyle Play-by-play · NBC
- 2024 Paris — BMX, skateboarding Play-by-play · NBC
- 2022 Beijing — snowboarding Play-by-play · NBC
- 2021 Tokyo — skateboarding, BMX Play-by-play · NBC
- 2018 PyeongChang — snowboarding, incl. the halfpipe gold-medal final Play-by-play · NBC
- 2018 PyeongChang Paralympics — alpine skiing Play-by-play · NBC
- 1998 Nagano — first Games Reporter · Turner Sports
Everything else
- 2021 – SailGP world feed Lead play-by-play · SailGP / CBS Sports Network
- Current NBA on Prime, international feed Commentator · Prime Video
- 2021 – Supercross Lead commentary, shared with Leigh Diffey · NBC
- 2009 – Dew Tour, summer and winter Host · NBC
- 2009 – Red Bull Signature Series Play-by-play · NBC
- 2009 – Tour de France Host · NBC
- 2009 – IRONMAN World Championship, Kona Host · NBC
- 2013 – 2018 World Series of Fighting, then the PFL Lead play-by-play · NBC
Education
- MA, International Sports Journalism St Mary's University, London
- BA, Communications and Broadcast Journalism Brigham Young University, 1990
Booking
Got something
nobody knows
how to call yet?
Play-by-play, hosting, narration and voice work. He has never much minded what the sport is.