 Ryan served as the play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports coverage of Rowing and Flat Water Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.Tim is the author of the memoir, "On Someone Else's Nickel", recounting his 52-year career covering more than thirty different sports in more than twenty different countries on CBS, NBC and ESPN.The book details not just the events he broadcast, but the people and the adventures surrounding them.