Report: Tirico will leave ESPN/ABC to join NBC

A person familiar with the move says Mike Tirico is leaving ESPN and ABC Sports this summer when his contract expires to work for NBC.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because neither network had made an announcement about the broadcaster. SportsBusiness Journal was first to report the news.

Tirico began working at ESPN in 1991 and became its “Monday Night Football” play-byplay announcer in 2006. He calls golf and tennis tournaments, NBA and college basketball and college football. Motor sports: NASCAR has added mandatory fines and other penalties for teams caught without five lug nuts on each wheel. The move comes less than a week after three-time series champion Tony Stewart urged NASCAR to take action. The series had stopped monitoring lug nuts during pit stops, and some teams were using fewer than five, allowing them to send out cars faster. College basketball: Indiana guard James Blackmon Jr. says he will enter the NBA draft but will not hire an agent, so he could return to school next season. Blackmon averaged 15.7 points and 5.3 rebounds as a freshman and 15.8 points in the first 13 games of his sophomore season before injuring his knee. Obituary: Anthony “Zippy” Morocco, Georgia’s first basketball All-American and one of the school’s most accomplished return specialists in football, has died. He was 86. Mr. Morocco’s son, former Clemson quarterback Chris Morocco, says his father committed suicide on Sunday following a bout with depression and cancer. Chris Morocco said on his Facebook account the family will donate Morocco’s brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy research.