Ahmed Fareed
Studio Host
Ahmed Fareed currently serves as a host and reporter on a variety of sport events and properties across NBC Sports. Beginning in August, he will be the host of Big Ten College Countdown, NBC Sports’ primetime college football studio show, and following the college football season, will anchor NBC Sports’ Monday night NBA coverage, presented exclusively on Peacock.
Additionally, Fareed has worked on Premier League, college basketball, horse racing, and rugby, and previously served as NBC Sports’ host of MLB Sunday Leadoff on Peacock.
Fareed has served as a studio host for five Olympic assignments, most recently as a host of the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC. Fareed won a Sports Emmy as part of NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Paris Olympics, which was honored as Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event. He has also anchored coverage of the past two Paralympic Games across NBCUniversal.
From 2013-18, Fareed served as a host and reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California (previously Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and Comcast SportsNet California), covering Northern California’s teams: MLB’s San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s, NBA’s Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings, NHL’s San Jose Sharks, MLS’ San Jose Earthquakes and NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders.
A three-time Emmy Award-winner, he served as an anchor and reporter for the Giants Pregame Live and Giants Postgame Live, SportsNet Central and various studio shows. While at NBC Sports Bay Area, Fareed covered a Giants World Series Championship (2014) and three Warriors Championships (2015, 2017, 2018). Fareed won a Sports Emmy as part of NBCUniversal’s coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, which was honored as Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event.
Fareed joined NBC Sports Bay Area in January 2013 as co-anchor of the network’s signature show SportsNet Central, alongside Dave Feldman. Previously, Fareed served as a host and reporter at MLB Network (2011-2012), appearing in studio programming, including MLB Tonight, Hot Stove, Quick Pitch and 30 Clubs in 30 Days.
Fareed, a native of Sparta, Mich., is a 2002 graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where he majored in broadcast journalism.
