{"id":2491,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2491","headline":"Jason Benetti honors Dan Hicks while filling in on Notre Dame broadcast","dek":"NBC's longtime voice of golf and Notre Dame football died unexpectedly this week at age 64, and Benetti stepped in on short notice to call Saturday's game against Boston College.","body":"Dan Hicks, NBC's voice of golf and several Olympic sports who also called Notre Dame football for the network, died unexpectedly this week at age 64. Tributes poured in from across the sporting world, from fellow broadcasters to athletes whose biggest moments Hicks had narrated over the years.\n\nWith Hicks gone, NBC needed someone to step in for Saturday's Notre Dame-Boston College broadcast, and the call went to Jason Benetti. He clearly understood the weight of the assignment, paying tribute to Hicks multiple times throughout the broadcast rather than treating it as just another fill-in gig.\n\nBenetti opened the broadcast with an emotional nod to his predecessor, acknowledging the sudden loss before the game even kicked off. When Notre Dame scored a touchdown, he found another moment to honor Hicks, making clear that the day's call, however routine the football itself might have been, was happening under circumstances nobody wanted.\n\nHicks spent decades as one of the sport's most recognizable voices, and his death leaves a noticeable gap in NBC's broadcast booth heading into the rest of the season.","published_at":"2026-11-15T00:50:21.748514+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Jason Benetti had a sweet tribute for Dan Hicks after Notre Dame touchdown","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/jason-benetti-tribute-dan-hicks-notre-dame-touchdown.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"'After last week, expect anything different?': Jason Benetti pays tribute to Dan Hicks","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/last-week-expect-anything-different-232331934.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Play-by-play voice who replaced late Dan Hicks has heartbreaking message on Notre Dame broadcast","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/sports/jason-benettis-heartbreaking-dan-hicks-message-on-notre-dame-broadcast/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"NBC pays tribute to late broadcaster Dan Hicks before Notre Dame-Boston College game: ‘Still in disbelief’","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/sports/nbc-pays-tribute-to-late-broadcaster-dan-hicks-before-notre-dame-boston-college-game-still-in-disbelief/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBC pays tribute to Dan Hicks before coverage of Notre Dame vs. Boston College broadcast","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/nbc-pays-tribute-to-dan-hicks-before-coverage-of-notre-dame-vs-boston-college-broadcast-211537903.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"How NBC Sports honored Dan Hicks during Boston College-Notre Dame","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nbc-sports-honored-dan-hicks-215454276.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBC Sports booth honors Dan Hicks during Notre Dame broadcast: 'Wish I wasn't here'","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nbc-sports-booth-honors-dan-221213826.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBC Sports booth honors Dan Hicks during Notre Dame broadcast: 'Wish I wasn't here'","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nbc-sports-booth-honors-dan-233421083.html"},{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Jason Garrett pays heartfelt tribute to Dan Hicks on NBC’s Notre Dame broadcast","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/jason-garrett-heartfelt-tribute-dan-hicks-notre-dame-broadcast.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}