{"id":70569,"date":"2015-04-21T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70569"},"modified":"2015-04-21T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:57:39","slug":"fox-nascar-announcer-steve-byrnes-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70569","title":{"rendered":"Fox NASCAR announcer, Steve Byrnes passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Byrnessteve2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70574\" alt=\"Byrnessteve2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Byrnessteve2.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Fox NASCAR announcer Steve Byrnes has died. He was 56.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The network said he died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Byrnes joined Fox Sports in 2001 and served as a pit reporter for its Sprint Cup Series coverage through the 2014 season. He was also a play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports 1&#8217;s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races and hosted several auto racing shows on the company&#8217;s channels.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Before joining Fox, he was a pit reporter for TNN, CBS and WTBS.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A high school quarterback who led his team to a Maryland state championship, Byrnes played one season of football at James Madison before transferring to the University of Maryland.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Byrnes is survived by his wife of 22 years, Karen, and their 12-year-old son, Bryson, of Fort Mill, South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Fox NASCAR announcer Steve Byrnes has died. He was 56. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The network said he died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Byrnes joined Fox Sports in 2001 and served as a pit reporter for its Sprint Cup Series coverage through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70578,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70569\/revisions\/70578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}