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Tiki Barber

Thursday, June 05, 2025 @ 6:00pm



Grunin Center
1 College Drive, Toms River, NJ 08754

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Tiki Barber is a national media personality, serving as a color analyst for the NFL on CBS. He is also the afternoon drive co-host of Evan and Tiki on WFAN in New York. Barber co-hosted Tiki and Tierney for over ten years at both CBS Sports Radio and WFAN. He was a correspondent for NBC’s The Today Show, as well as an analyst on NBC’s Football Night in America. During Barber’s NBC tenure, he contributed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Over the years, Tiki has appeared on a variety of entertainment-related shows.

During his 10-year NFL career with the New York Giants, Barber was a three-time Pro Bowler and a First-Team All-Pro. His 10,449 yards leaves him as the team’s all-time leading rusher and a member of the organization’s Ring of Honor.

Barber’s 2005 season with 2,390 yards from scrimmage ranks fourth all-time in NFL history, as does his five career 200-yard rushing games.

Tiki ranks 6th all-time in receptions by a running back with 586 and is one of three players in NFL history to accumulate 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards.



The sponsors of the Blauvelt Speaker Series have generously underwritten the cost of tickets for this program. 

The Blauvelt Speaker Series is funded in part by the generosity of the late Bradford Thomas & Eleanor G. Blauvelt and the Wintrode Family Foundation. This year’s 2024-2025 additional sponsors include Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, LLC, Arlene and Frank Dupignac, Jr., Georgian Court University, Kean Ocean, Stella and Marshall Kern, Kiwanis of Greater Toms River, Leone & Daughters, New Jersey Natural Gas, and OCVTS.




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American

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