Education
Burr grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated in 1994 from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, earning a bachelor degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Burr grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated in 1994 from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, earning a bachelor degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Burr has worked for the National Broadcasting Company Sports Group since 2012, with his duties mainly consisting of golf and college basketball coverage. Foreign golf, he is the main studio host on National Broadcasting Company"s Golf Channel, as well as an occasional play-by-play voice. Foreign college basketball, he mainly works as a play-by-play announcer on East Coast telecasts airing on the National Broadcasting Company Sports Network.
Before joining the National Broadcasting Company Sports Group, Burr was previously a studio host for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.
Burr published his first novel in 2014 titled "" a nonfiction tale about a college football player who gets caught up in gambling.
While a student at Syracuse, Burr regularly worked as a television play-by-play announcer, studio host, and radio personality for several media outlets. In 1994, Burr began working as a play-by-play announcer and studio host for Time Warner in Clearwater, Florida.
Prior to joining Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Burr worked at Fox Sports Net in Pittsburgh, (serving the pre-game host for the Pirates and Penguins telecasts) and American Broadcasting Company owned and operated station WTVG-television in Toledo, Ohio. Burr left FSN in Pittsburgh in August 2005 for Bristol, Connecticut.
He began working for ESPNews.
In April 2007 he was named a host of National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Now, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network’s first daily program dedicated solely to National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing news and information. In November 2008 Burr moved to the college basketball studios where he was named host of the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network program Midnight Madness (now College Basketball Final). Burr worked on SportsCenter, college football and college basketball for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, as a host for College Football Live & College Basketball Final.
On March 13, 2012, Burr created controversy by sending out a message on his Twitter account to Nerlens Noel, the #1 player in 2012 high school class, that he should come to Syracuse (Burr"s alma mater) to replace Fab Melo, who earlier in the day was ruled academically ineligible and is expected to enter the upcoming National Basketball Association Draft.
On July 2, 2012 he announced he would leaving Entertainment and Sports Programming Network for National Broadcasting Company Sports and the Golf Channel.