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{{Short description|American sportscaster (born 1954)}}
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'''Andrea Joyce Kuslits'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Former+CBS+correspondent+Harry+Smith%2C+who+last+year+moved+to+NBC...-a0321460716|title=Former CBS correspondent Harry Smith, who last year moved to NBC after 17 years hosting The Early Show, has made the jump to Brooklyn.|work=Real Estate Weekly|date=January 2, 2013|accessdate=July 23, 2018}}</ref> (born August 17, 1954), better known as '''Andrea Joyce''', is an [[United States|American]] [[sportscaster]] who works for [[NBC Sports]] after working 10 years with [[CBS Sports]].▼
| name = Andrea Joyce
| image = Andrea Joyce Delivers the Frank Deford Lecture in Sports Journalism (40578156403).jpg
| caption = Joyce in 2017
| birth_name = Andrea Joyce Kuslits
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|8|17}}
| birth_place =
| nationality = American
| occupation = Sportscaster
| spouse = [[Harry Smith (American journalist)|Harry Smith]]
| children = 2
}}
▲'''Andrea Joyce Kuslits'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Former+CBS+correspondent+Harry+Smith%2C+who+last+year+moved+to+NBC...-a0321460716|title=Former CBS correspondent Harry Smith, who last year moved to NBC after 17 years hosting The Early Show, has made the jump to Brooklyn.|work=Real Estate Weekly|date=January 2, 2013|
Joyce graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] in 1976. Her work in local television included a stint as the weekend sports anchor for [[WFAA-TV]] in Dallas in 1987 and as a news anchor and field reporter for [[KMGH-TV]] in [[Denver]]. She worked also as a news anchor for KTVH-TV in Wichita, Kansas. Besides she worked a stint at Detroit's NBC affiliate [[WDIV-TV]] channel 4.▼
Joyce graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] in 1976.
== Career ==
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Joyce debuted as a reporter for [[ESPN]] at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in [[Seoul]]. She also covered for ESPN, the [[NFL Draft]], and the [[French Open|French Open Tennis Championships]].
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Andrea Joyce replaced [[Greg Gumbel]] (who in return, replaced [[Dick Stockton]] as the #2 play-by-play man) as studio host for the [[Major League Baseball on CBS|Major League Baseball games]]. Joyce would be joined at the anchor desk by [[Pat O'Brien (television)|Pat O'Brien]]. She also served as field reporter for the [[1991 National League Championship Series]] and [[1991 World Series]], and at the [[1993 World Series]], she became the first woman to co-host the network television coverage for a [[World Series]].
Joyce also hosted CBS' early-round coverage of the [[1991 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship]]; ''[[College Football on CBS|College Football Today]]'' (CBS' college football studio show); the [[NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship]] Final Four and title-game broadcasts from
Joyce returned to CBS Sports for their pregame coverage of Super Bowl LVIII and on their show ''[[We Need to Talk (talk show)|We Need to Talk]]''.
===NBC Sports===
Joyce joined [[NBC Sports]] in 2000 and has served as a reporter on a number of events for NBC, including [[Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics|figure skating]] and [[Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics|short track speed skating]] from [[Torino]] in 2006; [[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics|gymnastics]] and [[Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics|diving]] from [[Athens]] in 2004; [[Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics|speed skating]] in [[Salt Lake City]] at the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] Games; and [[Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics|diving]] and [[Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics|swimming]] in [[Sydney]] in 2000. She was the only woman to do play-by-play during the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]]. During that Olympics, she served as the play-by-play woman for [[Rhythmic Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics|rhythmic gymnastics]] and served as a reporter for [[Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics|gymnastics]].
She also served as the play-by-play commentator for [[rhythmic gymnastics]] in Athens. In Sydney, Joyce also covered women's [[soccer]] and
In 2010, she served as the reporter for short track and figure skating during the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] on NBC.
A member of the [[Women's Sports Foundation]], Joyce has covered a wide variety of sports, including [[figure skating]], [[boxing]], and
Joyce
==See also==
▲Joyce is married to [[Harry Smith (US journalist)|Harry Smith]], and they have two sons. She enjoys jogging and tennis.
* [[New Yorkers in journalism]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101027145340/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/01/29/archive/main1269.shtml Andrea Joyce - CBS News]
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