Barry Tompkins

Barry Tompkins (born c. 1940) is a well-known American sportscaster. He is better known for his work as a boxing commentator, but he has covered football and another number of sports as well.

Barry Tompkins was born and raised in San Francisco,he began his broadcasting career as a writer and producer for San Francisco radio station KCBS in 1965, before being hired as sports director at the local CBS television affiliate, KPIX-TV. Since then he has spent five years at NBC, ten years at HBO, eight years at ESPN, and the past fourteen years at Fox Sports.

In 1974, he moved to New York to join WNBC-TV as a sports anchor and feature reporter, before moving to NBC Sports in 1975 to host weekly radio shows as well as television play-by-play for basketball and football.

Tompkins returned to San Francisco in 1978 and joined then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV as sports director, while continuing to cover Pac-10 basketball for NBC as well as feature stories for its NFL pre-game show. He left KRON in 1980 to join the then-fledgling cable channel HBO.

In 2013, he joined the faculty at Dominican University of California as a professor for the university's Communications Department.

At HBO, Tompkins came into much greater national prominence alongside Larry Merchant and Sugar Ray Leonard as a member of the HBO Boxing show's team. He called fights at HBO for many years and some of his commentaries became famous, such as his call when Alexis Argüello was 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 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.). In 1992, he won the Sam Taub Award for excellence in boxing broadcasting journalism. Tompkins also co-hosted HBO's baseball program, Race for the Pennant.

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