Barry Tompkins

About

Barry Tompkins is a 48-year network television veteran. He is a play-by- play broadcaster, a four-time Emmy Award winner, and in 2017 was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his work as a boxing commentator.Barry was born and raised in San Francisco and began his career in local television at KPIX TV in 1968. Since then he has spent five years at NBC, ten years at HBO, eight years at ESPN, fifteen years at Fox Sports and currently does the ShoBox and Championship Boxing series’ for Showtime while continuing to do a full schedule of college football and basketball.His credits include play-by-play commentary of The Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, eight Olympic Games, The Tour de France, Wimbledon, the French Open and the U.S. Open Tennis, the World Gymnastics Championships, World Swimming and Diving Championships, World Figure Skating Championships, horse racing’s Triple Crown, World Cup Skiing, San Francisco Giants baseball, and over 400 World Championship fights.In addition he has covered the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and PGA golf events, The Indy 500, Baseball World Series, hockey Stanley Cup, and the Soccer World Cup.Barry spent 35 years associated nationally with Pac 12 Conference football and basketball, and currently does games for the Pac 12 Network and WCC basketball for Spectrum Cable, Root Sports and NBC Sports Bay Area.In addition to his broadcasting work, Barry writes a sports column for the Marin Independent Journal and teaches a class on Storytelling for Television at Dominican University in San Rafael, Ca.He is married to author Joan Ryan. They live in Sausalito, California. They have a son, Ryan who is 32 and are parents to a 9-year old Border Collie- Great Pyrenees mix named Rosie.