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Mike Carlson is the regular pundit of National Football League (NFL) coverage for the United Kingdom's Channel 4 TV station, having formerly worked on Channel Five's coverage of the sport from 1998–2010. He was also the main analyst for BBC's coverage of the Super Bowl between 2008-2013. He is originally from Connecticut, US. He also commentated on BBC's coverage of the 2012 Olympics men's basketball. == Career == Carlson played tight end at Wesleyan University from 1968 to 1972.〔(The Thinking Voice of the NFL: A Conversation with Mike Carlson ) PopMatters, 14 December 2008〕 After moving to the UK in 1977,〔(User Profile: Michael Carlson ) Blogger〕 Carlson worked as a sports editor for the television news agency UPITN before joining ABC Sports as their director of programming in Europe. Later he became Vice-President of European operations for Major League Baseball before beginning his freelance career. In 1991 he teamed up with Nick Halling to cover Major League Baseball for satellite station Screensport, a partnership which continued with the World League of American Football, and during the early years of the league's successor, NFL Europe, on Sky Sports. In 1994, Carlson left Major League Baseball and became a freelance journalist. He reviews books and film, and wrote three books in the Pocket Essentials series, on the film directors Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, and Oliver Stone. He also writes obituaries for The Guardian and The Independent and on sport for a number of outlets, including NFLUK.com. On screen he has also appeared occasionally as a baseball pundit on MLB on Five hosted by Jonny Gould, a sport he previously presented on Sky Sports in the mid-1990s. He also wrote the Channel Five Guide To Baseball. He is the commentator for World Baseball Classic on Eurosport. He has covered a variety of other sports on television including Basketball, Poker, Soccer, and Lacrosse. He has worked behind the scenes on the television coverage of both Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup tournaments. In 2000, he and Mark Webster provided commentary for the Meridian TV and ITV2 series Trans-Atlantic Wrestling Challenge. On 21 May 2011, Carlson "will call all the action from the Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium in Arusha when Tanzania hosts the first game of college American Football to be played on the African continent."〔http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=28388〕 Since 2010 he has returned to Channel 4 to provide punditry for the 2011–12 NFL season and co-hosts the American sports podcast Americarnage with Nat Coombs and Dan Louw. Carlson was the lead commentator for the BBC's coverage of the basketball at the 2012 Olympics, alongside co-commentator John Amaechi. Whilst commentating during the quarter-final game between Argentina and Brazil, Carlson was hit on the head by a rogue basketball that had been thrown off the court – his bewildered reaction became a popular video on the internet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Carlson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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