Randy Moss

Randy Moss (born 1959) is an American sports announcer and reporter who covers thoroughbred racing and Olympics for NBC Sports.

Early life Moss was born in 1959, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He attended horse races at Oaklawn Park Race Track during his youth, often sneaking into the track despite being underage. During high school and college he assisted Daily Racing Form columnist Don Grisham on an Oaklawn handicapping column in the Arkansas Gazette. Moss then spent one semester in pharmacy school at the University of Arkansas before Gazette sports editor Orville Henry hired him to work for the paper full time.

Print In 1984, Moss left the Gazette for the Arkansas Democrat after the Democrat offered to double his salary due to his popularity as a handicapper. From 1989 to 1995, he worked for The Dallas Morning News.

In 2011, Moss began as an analyst for the Triple Crown for NBC and NBCSN and now covers horse racing exclusively for those networks. In addition to his horse racing analyst duties, Moss has handled reporter, host or play-by-play duties for a wide variety of other sports broadcasts on the NBC family of networks including college football, college basketball, golf, show jumping, two Super Bowls and seven Olympic Games. For Olympic coverage, he has been assigned to equestrian sports, biathlon, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, snowboarding and freestyle skiing, water polo, whitewater canoeing and kayaking, synchronized swimming and race walking.