- Kenny Mayne
Kenny Mayne (born September 1, 1959) is a sports journalist for ESPN. A native of Kent, Washington, Mayne was an honorable mention junior college All-American quarterback in 1978 at Wenatchee Valley Community College in Wenatchee, WA. Kenny graduated from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1982, with a degree in Broadcasting, where he was the back-up quarterback and ahead of future NFL star Randall Cunningham on the depth chart.
- Chris Berman
Christopher (Boomer) James Berman (born May 10, 1955, in Greenwich, Connecticut) is a sportscaster, who anchors "SportsCenter", "Monday Night Countdown", "Sunday NFL Countdown", "Baseball Tonight", "U.S. Open golf", and other programming on ESPN. He joined ESPN a month after its founding and has been with the network since.
- Tony Kornheiser
Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and columnist for "The Washington Post", as well as a radio and television talk show host. Kornheiser has hosted "The Tony Kornheiser Show" on radio in various forms since 1992; co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001; and served as an analyst for ESPN's "Monday Night Football" since 2006. He is well known for his savage wit and sarcastic humor in print, …
- Stuart Scott
Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sportscaster for ESPN, most visibly as an anchor on "SportsCenter". Scott attended Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC and later the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) where he was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and on-air talent at student-run radio station WXYC. Scott graduated from UNC in 1987 with a bachelor of arts in speech communication.
- Mike Greenberg
Mike Greenberg (born August 6, 1967 in New York City, New York) is a Jewish-American television anchor and radio host for ESPN. At ESPN, he hosts the weekday evening SportsCenter and ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning show with Mike Golic.
- Bob Ryan
Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a longtime columnist for the "Boston Globe" and a sports talk show host on the New England Sports Network. He has been described as a basketball guru and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 1970s. After graduating from Boston College, Ryan started as a sports intern for the "Globe" on the same day as Peter Gammons.
- Dan Patrick
Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), better known as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster from Mason, Ohio. He attended the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. He is employed by ESPN. Patrick was an anchor on "SportsCenter" (1989-2006). He has also hosted "The Dan Patrick Show" on ESPN Radio since September 13, 1999. Starting on March 19, 2006, until the final game of the NBA Finals, …
- Michael Wilbon
Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist. He is a columnist for "The Washington Post", has co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001, and serves as an analyst for ESPN.
- Suzy Kolber
Suzy Kolber (born May 14, 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a football sideline reporter, co-producer, and anchor for ESPN and ABC Sports. She was one of the original anchors of ESPN2 when it launched in 1993. Three years later, she left ESPN2 to join Fox Sports, but rejoined ESPN in late-1999, and has been there since. She is a 1982 graduate of Pennsylvania's Upper Dublin High School and a 1986 graduate of the University of Miami.
- Dick Vitale
Richard J. "Dick" Vitale, also known as "Dickie V" and "Mr. College Basketball" (born June 9 1939 in Passaic, New Jersey) is an American sports broadcaster who is well known for his spirited style of broadcasting, primarily on ESPN and its family of cable television channels. Vitale was a finalist for election to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004, 2006, and 2007 (he was left out in 2005).
- Mike Golic
Michael "Mike" Golic (born December 12,1962 in Cleveland, Ohio), is co-host of ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike in the Morning" and a former defensive lineman in the NFL. He also serves as an analyst for ESPN and ESPN2's NFL studio programming, as well as for the networks' college football game coverage. Golic joined ESPN in 1995 as an NFL reporter/analyst for "Sunday NFL Countdown".
- Joe Buck
Joseph Francis Buck (born April 25, 1969) is an American sportscaster, and the son of the late Hall of Fame sportscaster Jack Buck. He has won numerous Sports Emmy Awards for his play-by-play work with Fox Sports television.
- Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless (born John Edward Bayless II (August 27,1951), is a nationally syndicated sportswriter. He can be seen on ESPN2's morning sportstalk show, "ESPN First Take", and its afternoon show, "1st and 10". Bayless also wrote regular columns for ESPN.com and its "Page 2" section
- Erin Andrews
Erin Andrews (born on May 4, 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a television sports reporter. Andrews joined ESPN in May 2004 as a reporter for the network's National Hockey League coverage. Since the 2004 season, Andrews has served as a reporter for the ESPN College Football Saturday telecast, the Saturday Primetime college basketball game and Big Ten college basketball coverage. In 2005, she added Major League Baseball sideling reporting to her duties.
- Dana Jacobson
Dana Jacobson joined ESPN as an ESPNEWS anchor in December 2002 and soon became a regular anchor on the 6 p.m edition of "SportsCenter". In March 2005, she was named co-host of "Cold Pizza", and transitioned with the show as it became "ESPN First Take". Jacobson provided sideline reporting for ESPN’s coverage of NBA Sunday night games. Jacobson graduated from the University of Michigan in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and communications.
- Kirk Herbstreit
Kirk Herbstreit (born August 19, 1969, Centerville, Ohio) is an analyst for ESPN's "College GameDay", a television program covering college football and a provider of color commentary during college football games on ESPN and ABC. He appears annually as a commentator in EA Sports' NCAA Football.
- Brian Kenny
Brian Kenny (born October 18, 1963), anchors the 6pm SportsCenter for ESPN. Brian won a National Sports Emmy for "Baseball Tonight" in 2003, was named "Sports Illustrated's" Media Personality of the Year in 2004, and received the 2005 Sam Taub Award as the Boxing Writers Association's "Boxing Broadcaster of the Year". Before working for ESPN, he worked for WTZA in Kingston, New York.
- Jim Rome
James "Jim" Rome (born October 14, 1964) is a Jewish-American sports radio talk show host syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications. Broadcasting from a studio near Los Angeles, California, he hosts "The Jim Rome Show" and hosts the TV show "Jim Rome Is Burning" (formerly "Rome Is Burning") which airs on ESPN. His past hosting jobs included sports discussion shows "Talk2" (ESPN2), …
- Colin Cowherd
Colin Cowherd (born January 6, 1964) is an American sports radio personality. He is currently the host of "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" on ESPN Radio and host of the television program "Missing Link" on ESPN Classic.
- Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is the lead broadcaster for ESPN's presentation of "Monday Night Football". In addition to his "Monday Night Football" duties, Tirico hosts a multitude of programming on ESPN/ABC. He has been host of ABC's golf coverage since 1996, and from 2002 to 2006, he was studio host for ABC's NBA telecasts. Starting in 2007, Tirico will call the NBA Finals for ESPN Radio.
- Michael Irvin
Michael Jerome Irvin (born March 5, 1966 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former American football player for the Dallas Cowboys and former broadcaster for ESPN's "NFL Countdown". He is regarded as one of the most successful wide receivers in the history of the National Football League. Irvin was nicknamed "The Playmaker" due to his penchant for making big plays in big games during his college career.
- Chad Ford
Chad Ford is an American sports journalist who has worked for ESPN Insider since 2001. He is currently a professor of conflict resolution in Hawaii. Ford grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He has a bachelor's degree in history from Brigham Young University-Hawaii, a master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University.
- Woody Paige
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Paige, Jr. (born June 27, 1946 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a sports columnist for "The Denver Post" and is also a regular panelist on the ESPN sports talk program "Around the Horn". He was co-host of "Cold Pizza" and its spin-off show "1st and 10" until on Nov. 4, 2006, it was announced that Paige would return to the "Post", beginning Dec. 1. He writes four columns a week for the paper.
- Jay Mariotti
Jay Mariotti (born 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American sportswriter. He is currently a columnist for the "Chicago Sun-Times" and also makes regular appearances on ESPN.
- Lee Corso
Lee Corso (born 1936) is an American sports broadcaster and football analyst. He has been featured on ESPN's College GameDay program since its inception and appears annually as a commentator in EA Sports' NCAA Football.
- Lou Holtz
Louis Leo Holtz (born on January 6, 1937 in Follansbee, West Virginia) is a former NCAA football head coach, and is currently an author and a motivational speaker who has spoken to the likes of Fortune 500 companies on topics such as the importance of teamwork and goal setting. Holtz grew up in nearby East Liverpool, Ohio, and graduated from East Liverpool High School. He attended and graduated from Kent State University, …
- Chris Fowler
Chris Fowler (born August 23, 1962) is a sports broadcaster for ESPN known best for his work on "College GameDay" for college football. Since 1989, Fowler has been the primary studio host for college football and men's college basketball on ESPN. He started anchoring College GameDay in 1990 and then expanded to ESPN's other Saturday college football segments in 1991.
- Jay Bilas
Jay Bilas (b. December 24 1963 in San Pedro, California) is an American lawyer and basketball analyst for ESPN.
- Trey Wingo
Hal Chapman Wingo III or "Trey" Wingo is the co-host of ESPN's "SportsCenter" from time to time but is best known as host of "NFL Live" alongside football analysts Mark Schlereth, Sean Salisbury, Merrill Hoge, Mike Golic and Tom Jackson, among others. He also has served as the host of the Women's NCAA basketball tournament on ESPN. Wingo attended Baylor University and was a member of Phi Delta Theta, the Tryon Coterie (Texas Lambda chapter.
- Tony Reali
Anthony Joseph Paul "Tony" Reali (born July 4, 1978 in Staten Island, New York) is the current host of "Around the Horn" on ESPN. He is also the ombudsman or "stat boy" on "Pardon the Interruption". He is often referred to as the Ultimate Sports Guru for his keen intellect and mastery of all sports statistics. He is a Marlboro, New Jersey native and graduated from Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey.
- J. A. Adande
Joshua Ade "J.A." Adande (born October 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA) is a former sports columnist for the "Los Angeles Times" and a panelist for ESPN's "Around the Horn" and a guest host on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption". He is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
- Linda Cohn
Linda Cohn (born November 10, 1959) is a Jewish-American sportscaster who appears on ESPN's "SportsCenter" as an anchor. As a teenager, Cohn, a New Yorker, demonstrated talent at ice hockey, joining her high school's boys team for eight games. She is also an avid New York Rangers fan. Cohn graduated with a bachelors degree in arts and communications from the SUNY at Oswego. She was also the goalie for the women's ice hockey team at Oswego, …
- John Buccigross
John Buccigross (born January 27, 1966 in Pittsburgh and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania) is currently an anchor for ESPN, a job he has held since 1996. A graduate of Steubenville Catholic Central High School in Steubenville, Ohio and Heidelberg College (where he majored in Communications and Theater Arts), his television duties include the Emmy winning "Sportscenter" and "Baseball Tonight", and formerly the co-host of the Emmy nominated "NHL 2Night".
- Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica (born 1952) is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative sports commentary in the "New York Daily News" and his appearances on ESPN.
- Jay Crawford
Jay Crawford (Born July 4, 1965) is the co-host of ESPN2's morning TV show First Take. Prior to joining ESPN he was the local sports director for WFTS-TV in Tampa, FL from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that stint he had a similar role at WBNS-TV in Columbus, OH from 1993 to 1998. He was a weekend sports anchor for WTIC-TV in Hartford, CT from 1992 to 1993. He started his sports career in 1987 at WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky.
- Bob Ley
Bob Ley (born March 16, 1955 in Newark, New Jersey) is a sportscaster for the ESPN cable-TV network. Ley had his start in broadcasting at WSOU at Seton Hall University. He graduated "magna cum laude" with a B.A. degree in Communications, Ley worked several minor broadcasting jobs - including public address announcer with the New York Cosmos soccer team - before landing his first major position with the fledgling ESPN in 1979.
- Michael Smith
Michael Smith (born in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an NFL reporter for ESPN. He is a regular guest on the channel's "Around the Horn". He has won "Facetime" on Around the Horn 78 times (as of May 3, 2007). He has also written for the Boston Globe. Michael Smith joined ESPN full time in September 2004 as an NFL reporter and a regular on Around the Horn. Smith covered the New England Patriots at the Boston Globe for three years.
- Michele Tafoya
Michele Tafoya (Vandersall) (born December 17, 1964 in Manhattan Beach, California) is an American television sportscaster. She currently works for ESPN as a sideline reporter for "Monday Night Football" and NBA games on ABC. Prior to joining ABC Sports and ESPN in 2000, she worked for several years for CBS Sports, covering the Winter Olympics and various games in the NFL, college football and college basketball.
- Rachel Nichols
Rachel Alexander Nichols is an ESPN reporter who covers breaking news and events for SportsCenter and also contributes investigative pieces and human-interest features for SportsCenter and Outside the Lines. Nichols is a regular part of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown shows, as well as a regular on ESPN's NBA coverage. She has previously worked for the "Washington Post" and "Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel".
- Karl Ravech
Karl Ravech (born January 19, 1965), is an American journalist who has worked for ESPN since 1993. A graduate of Ithaca College and Binghamton University, he previously was affiliated with local stations WHTM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and WBNG in Binghamton, New York. Ravech appears primarily on "SportsCenter" and "Baseball Tonight". Like other ESPN anchors, Ravech has developed a series of personal catch phrases, particularly for describing home runs, …