American Television Announcer and Producer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in New Carrolton, Maryland, and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1981. He began his career after graduation as a sports producer, covering several NFL teams. In 1985, Byrnes began his involvement with auto racing, including most prominently, NASCAR; in 2001, Byrnes began working with NASCAR on Fox as a pit reporter, and later became the host of Fox Sports 1's studio show NASCAR Race Hub. He began his television career shortly after graduating college. He was first hired as a weekend sports producer where he covered the Washington Redskins, Washington Bullets, Maryland, Georgetown, the Baltimore Orioles, and other sports. In November 1982, he had his first opportunity to be an on-air personality, when he was hired at Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina-based WCIV. While employed there he was a sports reporter and weekend anchor for the NBC affiliate until January 1985. Afterward, Sunbelt Video hired him, in which he hosted the NASCAR newsmagazine Inside Winston Cup with Ned Jarrett, which marked the beginning of producing and hosting NASCAR segments. He announced what was happening on pit road for World Sports Enterprises, and later worked for TBS, TNN (now Spike) and CBS. He was a backup pit commentator for Monster Jam on TNN. In 2006, he was given an extra assignment as one of the network's available play-by-play broadcasters for Fox's NFL broadcasts, joining Bill Maas for selected games when Fox had seven or eight games in a given week. From 2001 until 2014, he was a pit reporter for NASCAR on Fox. Byrnes served as a fill-in studio host and lap-by-lap announcer for NASCAR on Fox whenever Chris Myers or Mike Joy, respectively, were not available. As of 2014, Byrnes was the co-host of Fox Sports 1's NASCAR Race Hub, and was expected to be the lead announcer for the Camping World Truck Series in 2015. In October 2014, Brynes took a medical leave from Fox Sports after being diagnosed with a reoccurrence of head and neck cancer. Byrnes later died on April 21, 2015 at the age of 56 in Fort Mill, South Carolina.