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Erin Andrews (born on
May 4, 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts), a University of Florida
graduate, is a sideline reporter for ESPN and ABC Sports for college
football,
college basketball and Major League Baseball since 2004.
Andrews was also a sideline reporter on ESPN and ABC's NHL coverage when
ESPN and
ABC televised the NHL. Prior to ESPN, Andrews worked for
TBS (2001-2003). She currently resides in Atlanta. Erin Andrews was a
dancer at basketball
games while at the University of Florida
Andrews was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority while
in college.
Thea Andrews is a Canadian actress and TV personality
best known for her stint as hostess of the ESPN2 show Cold Pizza (2003-2005).
She used to host a Saturday night counter programming block against Hockey
Night in Canada called Guys TV on TSN, and a Canadian cable show titled
Cooking for Love.
Before her part on Cold Pizza, Thea was seen in the ESPN
series Playmakers (2003), in which she played the role of Samantha Lovett,
a television sports news reporter.
Beginning on August 15, 2005, Andrews began hosting another
show on ESPN2 with Mario Lopez, ESPN Hollywood, a new weeknight entertainment
show a la Entertainment Tonight which focused more on Hollywood's relationship
to the sports world. The show would end up cancelled in January 2006
after very low ratings and general disinterest from the ESPN audience.
She currently is the sideline reporter for college basketball games for
ESPN and ABC. She also host Sports and Hollywood on Cold Pizza every
friday.
Her latest televison appearance was as co-host of ESPN's "Breakfast
At Churchill Downs" program on the morning of the 132nd Kentucky
Derby
Michelle Bonner is an anchor on ESPNEWS and the weekend SportsCenter. She was previously a sports anchor for CNN Headline News. She is a former model.
Doris Burke is a sideline reporter for ESPN College Basketball games. She also an analyst for WNBA games on MSG, and has worked on New York Knicks games, becoming the first female to do so.
Linda Cohn (born November 10, 1959) is an accomplished sportscaster who appears on ESPN's Sports Center as an anchor.
As a teenager, Cohn, a New Yorker, demonstrated talent at ice hockey, joining her high school's boy’s team for eight games.
Cohn graduated with a bachelor’s degree in arts and communications from the SUNY
at Oswego. In 1981, she debuted as a sports anchor for the Patchogue, New York-based
radio station WALK-AM (also WALK-FM). After leaving that station in 1984 and
until 1987, she worked as a sports anchor for four other New York area radio
stations.
In 1987, she made sports casting history by becoming the first full-time U.S.
female sports anchor, when she was hired by ABC to anchor their radio sports
news show. In 1988, she got her first television break, after being hired by
what was at the time one of ESPN's top competitors, the Sports Channel America
Network. In 1989, she hosted a call-in radio sports show back home in New York.
Cohn moved to Seattle, Washington, after her stint at the Sports Channel America
Network, being hired by KIRO-TV to work as a sports anchor there. She returned
to the East Coast in 1992, when she was hired by ESPN to work at Sports Center.
She has become a familiar face among Sports Center viewers ever since, and she
is one of a small group of women that have worked at the show. She has also been
featured in many of the show's comical This is Sports Center commercials.
In 2005, Cohn signed a contract extension with ESPN, which adds doing play-by-play
for WNBA telecasts to her duties.
Dana Jacobson joined ESPN as an ESPNEWS anchor
in December 2002 and soon became a regular anchor on the 6 P.M. edition of
Sports Center. In March 2005, she was named co-host of Cold Pizza.
Also Jacobson provided
sideline reporting for ESPN’s coverage of NBA Sunday night games. Jacobson
graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a bachelor of arts
in English and communication.
Her first television job was in Traverse City, Mich., at WPBN/WTOM-TV, where
she spent two years as a fill-in news anchor, producer and editor.
Reported on a number of stories in Northern California, including profiles
of Sacramento Kings top players Mike Bibby, Chris Webber and Jason Williams
Covered
a wide range of professional sports including the NFL and NBA as a weekend
sports anchor at KXTV-TV, ABC’s Sacramento affiliate station (1998-02). Hosted
KXTV’s News10 Red Zone Served as a sports reporter for KXTV's Monday
Night Football Show (1996-98)
Hosted a weekly two-hour radio show for KHTK-AM (2000-02).
Also filled in for Dan Patrick on his radio show, broadcast on ESPN radio weekdays
from 1pm - 4pm. eastern time, during the 2005 holiday season.
Awards Edward R. Murrow Award (2000) National Headliner Award (1998)
Suzy Kolber served as the sideline reporter for ESPN’s
Sunday Night Football from 2001-05. This fall she will team with play-by-play
commentator Mike Tirico, analysts Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser
and fellow reporter Michele Tafoya when the NFL’s signature series,
Monday Night Football, moves to ESPN. Widely praised by critics for
elevating the NFL sideline reporter role to new heights, Kolber worked
her first Super Bowl assignment during ABC Sports’ broadcast
of Super Bowl XL in Detroit and contributed to the network’s
pre-game show. She also became the first female recipient of the Maxwell
Club’s Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award in 2006 and was named
to Sports Business Daily ’s 2004 list of the 10 favorite sports
TV personalities of the past 10 years. Kolber has played a major role
in ESPN’s comprehensive coverage of the annual NFL Draft, hosting
the network’s Day 2 telecast in 2004 and 2005 and leading analysis
segments on Day 1. For the 1999 through 2003 NFL seasons, Kolber was
the host of NFL Match-Up. She also previously contributed “Backstage” segments
to Monday Night Countdown. During the NFL off-season, Kolber serves
as an anchor on Sports Center and as an on-site host for ESPN’s
tennis coverage at the French Open (since 2004) and Wimbledon (since
2003). In 2000 and ’01 she hosted the X Games and Winter X Games,
and she co-hosted the event again in Aspen in 2006. She has also covered
Triple Crown horse racing events for ESPN/ESPN2 studio programs. Kolber
returned to ESPN in August 1999 after originally joining the network
in 1993 as co-host for ESPN2’s Sports Night, when the network
debuted October 1 of that year. She later served as an anchor on Sports
Center, a reporter on College GameDay and co-host of the X Games in
1995 and ’96. Kolber also hosted ESPN2's Sports Figures, which
uses sports celebrities and analogies to teach math and physics. She
left ESPN for Fox Sports in November 1996, where she anchored a nightly
sports news program and reported from NFL games, among other duties.
Kolber came to ESPN from WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she
was a weekend sports anchor and weekday feature reporter since December
1991. In 1991, Kolber's freelance assignments included work as a reporter/producer
for Breeders' Cup Newsfeed in Greenwich, Conn.; a field producer for
Inside Edition in New York; a sports specials producer for WCIX-TV
in Miami, and a producer/director for NFL Films. From 1989-90, she
freelanced as a sports specials producer for WPLG-TV in Miami. In addition,
she produced two magazine shows, Cowboys Special Edition in Irving,
Texas (1990-91) and Greyhound Racing America in Miami, Fla. (1988-90).
From 1985 to 1989, she produced the 5:30 p.m. ET sportscast at WTVJ-TV
in Miami, winning a local Sports Emmy in 1988. Kolber graduated from
the University of Miami in 1986 with a bachelor of arts degree in telecommunication.
While an undergraduate, she worked at Dynamic Cable in Coral Gables,
Fla., as a sports director (1984-86). After graduation, she worked
at CBS Sports in New York as a videotape coordinator (1986).
Jackie
MacMullan is an
American newspaper sportswriter, columnist and editor.
MacMullan is currently a columnist and associate editor of the Boston
Globe. She began writing
for the paper in 1982. From 1995 to 2000 she coverend the
NBA as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated.
In 1999, MacMullan collaborated with Larry Bird on his
autobiography Bird Watching: on Playing and Coaching the Game I Love.
In 2003 she published
Magic and Bird: Basketball's Awed Couple about Bird and
rival Magic Johnson. In 2006 she will release Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection
with Geno Auriemma
and Diana Taurasi.
MacMullan has been a correspondent for several cable television
networks including ESPN, CNNSI, and NESN, as well as WHDH-TV
in Boston. She is a regular contestant on the ESPN program Around the
Horn.
MacMullan is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire.
Rachel
Alexander Nichols is an ESPN reporter and Page2 columnist.
She has previously worked for the Washington Post and Fort Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinel. Nichols
attended Northwestern University.
Several blogs and other website authors have made note that
Nichols rarely blinks when appearing on screen during SportsCenter.
As Frank Walsh of the Huntersville Herald observed, "She is pretty
and a redhead but that's not why to check her out. She never
blinks."
Named one of Esquire Magazine's "Women We Love," 11/05 issue.
Nichols is married to music executive Max Nichols, and is
the daughter-in-law of film director Mike Nichols and television
journalist Diane Sawyer.
Lisa Salters is a reporter for ESPN
and ABC Sports since 2002. A graduate of Penn State who
played on the women's college basketball team, Salters has done reports
worldwide for
ESPN, including a series of reports from the Middle East
prior to the Iraq War. In addition, she also hosted ESPN's coverage
of the 2006 Winter
Olympics from Turin, Italy, and ESPN's coverage of the
2002 FIFA World Cup. Currently, she is the primary sideline reporter
for ABC's coverage
of the NBA, as well as the network's Saturday night college
football slate.
Shelley Smith is a Los Angeles-based reporter and correspondent for ESPN. She has covered numerous sports extensively, but is probably best known for her reporting on the Kobe Bryant rape trial in 2003-2004.
Michele Tafoya Vandersall (born December 17, 1964 in Manhattan Beach, California) is an American sports television reporter.
She currently works for ABC Sports and ESPN as a reporter/hostess for Monday Night Football, and was formerly a reporter for NBA games.
Prior to joining ABC Sports and ESPN, she worked for several years for CBS Sports, covering the Winter Olympics and various games in the NFL, college football and college basketball. She covered the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for WQAS-AM in Charlotte. She also reported for radio station KFAN-AM in Minneapolis, covering the Minnesota Vikings and the University of Minnesota women's basketball team. She still lives in Minnesota.
She received a B.A. in Mass Communications [1] from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, and a masters in business administration from University of Southern California.
Michele married Mark Vandersall in 2000, and gave birth to her first child, a son named Tyler Bruce Vandersall, on November 21, 2005. She returned to help ABC in their coverage of Super Bowl XL in Detroit as a field reporter with Suzy Kolber. When ESPN assumes the MNF package for the 2006 NFL season, she and Kolber will work those games as field reporters.
Pam Ward joined ESPNEWS, ESPN’s 24-hour sports news network, as an anchor November 18, a few weeks after the network’s November 1, 1996, launch. In addition to ESPNEWS, Ward serves as a commentator on select NCAA women’s basketball, the WNBA and college football games as well as an occasional anchor on ESPN’s SportsCenter.. She hosts the NFL on ESPN Radio and works as a reporter and on-site host for the Women’s Final Four. Ward has also hosted NBA Today, NBA 2Night, NHL 2Night, NFL Tonight and major league baseball pre- and post-game shows on ESPN Radio.
Ward had been an anchor/host at WBAL-Radio in Baltimore, Md., since March 1995. Her duties included hosting WBAL’s Baltimore Ravens’ pre-game show on Sundays. Ward also served as a fill-in sports anchor on WBAL-TV in Baltimore (1995-96).
In 1996, Ward began working as a sideline reporter for ESPN2’
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