- 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).
- Tiger Woods
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, Woods was the highest paid professional athlete in 2006, having earned an estimated $100 million from winnings and endorsements.
- Roger Clemens
William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962, in Dayton, Ohio), nicknamed "The Rocket", is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, and is one of the preeminent Major League baseball pitchers of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. In 2006, a poll of 32 ESPN analysts named Clemens the greatest living pitcher. He has won seven Cy Young Awards, two more than any other pitcher. He throws and bats right-handed.
- Michael Jordan
Mike's wife Jill is a mathematician, recently achieving her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. They are expecting their first child in late April or early May 2006. Mike is a graduate of Houghton College in New York and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies at Drew University in Madison, NJ.
- Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons (born 1969), best known as The Sports Guy, is a columnist for "Page2" on ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. His ESPN.com column is notable for being written from the viewpoint of a fan rather than an impartial journalist. Simmons aims for humor in his columns, often using extended analogies and references to pop culture (especially from the 1980s and 1990s). Simmons has earned a love/hate relationship with his readers, …
- Buster Olney
Robert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III (born 17 February 1964) is a columnist for "ESPN: The Magazine", ESPN.com, and covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for "The New York Times". He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN's "Baseball Tonight". Olney grew up on a dairy farm in Woodstock and Randolph Center, Vermont, which came in handy when he helped Mike Greenberg milked a cow on "Mike and Mike in the Morning" on June 21, 2007, …
- Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts (b. 1960) is an American television broadcaster, who is the co-anchor of ABC's popular morning show "Good Morning America". Roberts' father was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. She grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis among other sports, and graduated from high school as the class salutatorian. She then attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, …
- Joe Morgan
Joseph Leonard Morgan (born September 19, 1943 in Bonham, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990 with 81.76% of the ballot. Morgan is currently a commentator for ESPN television and radio.
- Andy Katz
Andy Katz is a senior college basketball journalist for ESPN.com. He is a regular sports analyst on "College GameNight" on ESPN. Katz attended the University of Wisconsin, and has worked for ESPN since January 5, 2000. Before Katz joined ESPN he was a sports reporter for the Fresno Bee.
- Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson, (born June 30, 1966) is a former American world heavyweight boxing champion. To date Tyson is the youngest man to have won a boxing world heavyweight title belt. During his prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s Tyson was one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. Nicknamed "Iron Mike Tyson", "Kid Dynamite", and "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson adopted the Muslim name, Malik Abdul Aziz, …
- Jayson Stark
Jayson Stark is a sports reporter who covers baseball for ESPN. He writes columns for ESPN.com and appears frequently on "Baseball Tonight" and "SportsCenter". Prior to joining ESPN, Stark worked for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" for 21 years. He was twice named Pennsylvania's sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
- 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), …
- John Clayton
John Clayton (born Johan Clayton) is a National Football League writer and reporter for ESPN. He is a senior writer for ESPN.com and often is recognized by fellow ESPN sportscasters as "The Professor." Clayton began hosting a cable TV sports show in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, while still a student at Churchill Area High School in suburban Pittsburgh. His print journalism career started at a now-defunct Pittsburgh weekly, "Steel City Sports", in 1973.
- Adrian Peterson
Adrian Peterson (born July 1, 1979 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American football running back. He currently plays for the Chicago Bears as the second string running back behind Cedric Benson. He has also served as a special teams standout for the Chicago Bears the past few years. Adrian Peterson was a two-time all-state, all-area selection and team MVP at Santa Fe High School in Alachua, …
- 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.
- Rob Neyer
Rob Neyer is a baseball author and, since 1996, a columnist for ESPN.com. Until 2004, Neyer's work was available without subscription, but it is now part of the Insider service and can be read only upon payment. A disciple of sabermetrics legend Bill James, his column is an outlet for everyday fans to gain from the insight that statistics-centered analysis can offer. Neyer's statistical analysis often finds him at odds with other ESPN columnists, …
- Derrick Rose
Derrick Rose is an American basketball player. He is currently in his senior year at Simeon Vocational High School in Chicago, Illinois. He is considered to be the best high school guard prospect in years and the best point guard out of Chicago since Isiah Thomas. On January 18, 2007, Rose lead his Simeon Wolverines to an upset of then-unbeaten Oak Hill Academy. The game was televised nationally on ESPN. Rose committed to play at the University of Memphis.
- Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong Facing testicular cancer and not yet knowing his own fate, in 1997 champion cyclist Lance Armstrong established the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a non-profit organization that inspires and empowers people affected by cancer. This marked the beginning of Lance's role as an advocate for cancer survivors and a world representative for the cancer community.
- 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, …
- John Madden
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936) is a former National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006.
- John Madden
John Earl Madden is a former American National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jay Bilas
Jay Bilas (b. December 24 1963 in San Pedro, California) is an American lawyer and basketball analyst for ESPN.
- Chris Mortensen
Chris "Mort" Mortensen (born on November 7, 1951), an award-winning journalist, provides reports for ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown", "Monday Night Countdown", "SportsCenter", ESPN Radio and ESPN.com. He also has his own Web page (linked off ESPN.com) that launched in 2000.
- Dan Shanoff
Dan Shanoff is a former writer for ESPN.com's Page2 section who now runs his own sports blog. Every weekday morning between January 6, 2003 and August 31, 2006, Monday through Friday, he put out a "Daily Quickie" article, in which he discussed the important sports happenings from the previous day and those that played that day or soon. He also interjected his own opinion and commentary about the topics he discussed.
- 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, …
- Len Pasquarelli
Len Pasquarelli is an American sportswriter and analyst with ESPN.com and a 25-year veteran of covering the NFL. He joined ESPN.com in 2001 and has since become a frequent contributor to the other ESPN outlets, including "SportsCenter", ESPNEWS, ESPN Radio and "ESPN The Magazine". His articles reflect his opinions on various football topics. Prior to ESPN, Pasquarelli served as a senior writer for CBS SportsLine.com, which he joined in 1999.
- Gene Wojciechowski
Gene Wojciechowski is a sports columnist, best known for his work with ESPN. Born in Salina, Kansas, he became a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine in January 1998, having worked as a football reporter for the network since 1992. He was named senior national sports columnist for ESPN in June 2005. He also has worked at the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, and Denver Post.
- Jason Whitlock
Jason Lee Whitlock (b. 27 April 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an African-American sportswriter for "The Kansas City Star" and for AOL Sports, a former contibutor to ESPN and a former radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area.
- 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, …
- Harold Reynolds
Harold Craig Reynolds (born November 26, 1960 in Eugene, Oregon) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball. He was a native of Corvallis, Oregon and graduated from Corvallis High School. As such, he was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. He was a studio analyst on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" from 1996-2006. Reynolds also was a commentator for ESPN's coverage of the College World Series and Little League World Series.
- 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.
- Torii Hunter
Torii Kedar Hunter (born July 18, 1975 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas) is a Major League Baseball outfielder who currently plays for the Minnesota Twins. Hunter has shown his athletic ability, having taken away many home runs throughout his 8 year MLB career. ESPN called Hunter a "daily web gem," referring to ESPN's nightly highlight reel. He has won six consecutive Gold Glove Awards for his defensive prowess.
- 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.
- Keyshawn Johnson
Keyshawn Johnson (born July 22, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American football wide receiver and current television broadcaster for sports channel ESPN. He retired from football on May 23, 2007 after an eleven-year career in the NFL.
- 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.
- Sean McAdam
Sean McAdam is a sports writer for ESPN and The Providence Journal. He is also a beat writer for the Boston Red Sox. McAdam makes regular appearances on WEEI sports talk radio in Boston. He is often a co-host on the Big Show (weekdays 2-5) and he co-hosts "The Baseball Show" with Mike Adams and Steve Buckley (Sundays 9-12). He is often criticized by other hosts on the Big Show for his liberal leaning politics. His monotone voice is also jokingly mocked in bits on the show.
- Rusty Wallace
Russell William "Rusty" Wallace (born August 14, 1956 in Fenton, Missouri) is a former NASCAR champion, NASCAR Busch Series car owner, and television broadcaster with ESPN and ESPN on ABC. Wallace had his first live broadcast of the Indy 500 on May 28, 2006. Wallace appeared in the 1990 film Days of Thunder.