Sports Media

Mina Kimes is an award-winning journalist and NFL analyst at ESPN, known for her insightful commentary and dynamic presence across multiple platforms. Since joining ESPN in 2014, Kimes has become a prominent voice in sports media, contributing as a senior writer, television analyst, and podcast host. She is a regular panelist on NFL Live, First Take, and Around the Horn, and hosts The Mina Kimes S...

ESPN named Doris Burke a full-time ESPN NBA game analyst. She also works as a lead analyst on ABC. Across nearly three decades, she has been a top commentator on several significant ESPN properties, including the NBA, women’s and men’s college basketball, and the WNBA. She also serves as the lead ESPN NBA sideline reporter for NBA playoff games and the NBA Finals on ABC. Burke has covered basketba...

Michael Wilbon is a distinguished American sports journalist and broadcaster, best known as the co-host of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption (PTI) alongside Tony Kornheiser. Before transitioning to television, Wilbon spent over three decades at The Washington Post, where he began as a sports reporter in 1980 and became a full-time columnist in 1990. His writing was celebrated for its insightful comme...

Joe Buck is the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN. In 2022, he moved to ESPN from FOX Sports, having also covered the NFL, MLB, and USGA. Buck has called an astounding six Super Bowls, 23(20 consecutive) World Series, and 24 MLB League Championship Series for the network. As the lead voice for FOX NFL since 2002, Buck worked with analysts Aikman and Cris Collinsworth for three seasons (2002-04)...

Adam Schefter joined ESPN as an NFL Insider in August 2009 and appears on a variety of programs, including NFL Insiders, NFL Insiders: Sunday Edition, NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, SportsCenter, and more throughout the year. He also contributes regularly to other platforms, such as ESPN.com and ESPN Radio, and is part of the company’s annual NFL Draft and Super Bowl week...

There is perhaps no name more synonymous with ESPN than Chris Berman. 'Boomer' joined ESPN in 1979, a month after the network launched, as an anchor on SportsCenter. He was a fixture in ESPN's NFL coverage as the host of Sunday Night Countdown from 1985-2016, where he popularized his 'Swami' alter ego while predicting games and became a household name for entire generations of football fans. He ha...

Cris Collinsworth is the game analyst for NBC’s Sunday Night Football.“ In a league of his own,” according to the New York Post, and called “arguably the most thoughtful and well-spoken of football analysts,” by the Houston Chronicle, Collinsworth in Jan. 2025 completed his 16th season alongside Al Michaels in the Sunday Night Football booth. SNF averaged 16.8 million TV viewers in 2020 (with a To...

Widely recognized as one of the best college football minds of his generation, Kirk Herbstreit has served as an analyst for ESPN’s three-time Sports Emmy Award-winning College GameDay Built by The Home Depot remote college football studio show since August 1996, when he joined host Chris Fowler and co-analyst Lee Corso. For his efforts there, he has earned seven nominations and two Sports Emmy Awa...

Greg Olsen is a 2x Sports Emmy Award winner, former 3x Pro Bowl tight end for the Carolina Panthers, and current on-air personality for FOX Sports. He is also one of the founders of Tight End University, a three-day program that brings together former and current NFL tight ends alongside George Kittle and Travis Kelce. Olsen, a native of Wayne, New Jersey, started his football career at Wayne Hill...

Charissa Thompson is the host of FOX NFL KICKOFF, the Sunday morning NFL pregame show leading into FOX NFL SUNDAY. Enjoying the prime of an improbable career that began as an assistant in the FOX Sports human resources department in 2006, Thompson has been one of the faces of FS1 since the network launched in August 2013. A Seattle native who attended the University of California-Santa Barbara, Th...

Skip Bayless is a prominent American sports commentator and television personality renowned for his provocative and polarizing opinions. He began his journalism career in print, writing for esteemed publications such as The Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, and Chicago Tribune. Bayless garnered multiple accolades, including the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Newspaper Writing in...

Pat McAfee is the founder and CEO of Pat McAfee Inc., a digital media company. He also serves as the host of the nationally syndicated “Pat McAfee Show,” which airs on Westwood One and DAZN, and is a regular contributor to the popular podcast, Heartland Radio 2.0. Additionally, McAfee is a host and media personality for the WWE, most recently hosting its NXT pre-fight studio show. Pat McAfee joine...

Phil Simms is a sportscaster for CBS and a retired NFL quarterback. The Kentucky native played DII college football at Morehead State and was surprisingly selected 7th overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. Simms would have a legendary, 15-year career in New York, winning two Super Bowls and going to two Pro Bowls. Simms’ completion percentage (88%) in Super Bowl XXI remains a Super...

Mike Golic. Sr became an icon during his 17-year stint as the host of sports talk show Mike and Mike on ESPN. He, alongside Mike Greenberg, became one of ESPN's most recognizable faces, and the pair are widely regarded as one of the most dynamic sports talk duos of all time. Long before, however, Golic had already made a name for himself. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame and capt...

Colin Cowherd, one of the most thought-provoking sports hosts in the country, joined FOX Sports and Premiere Networks in September 2015 as a television, radio, and digital personality. Cowherd’s three-hour sports talk program, THE HERD WITH COLIN COWHERD, airs simultaneously on FS1 and the FOX Sports Radio Network on weekdays. THE HERD is also available on www.FOXSportsRadio.com, www.FOXSports.com...

Dan "Big Cat" Katz is the host of Pardon my Take podcast on Barstool Sports. The show airs 3x a week and Big Cat is joined by his fellow host PFT Commenter. Pardon my Take is a satirical show, poking fun at traditional sports media and commenting on hot topics in sports of the day. The podcast averages between 750 thousand and 1.5 million listeners per episode. Apple named the show one of the twel...

Marty Smith is a veteran ESPN reporter and host known for his dynamic storytelling and deep connection to American sports culture. Since joining ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter, Smith has expanded his coverage to include college football, basketball, golf, and more. He co-hosts the popular show Marty & McGee with Ryan McGee, which airs on SEC Network and ESPN Radio, offering a blend of sports an...

Allie LaForce is an American sports journalist, former model, and beauty pageant titleholder. Born on December 11, 1988, in Vermilion, Ohio, she gained national recognition after winning Miss Teen USA in 2005. LaForce attended Ohio University, where she studied broadcast journalism and played as a guard on the women's basketball team. Her broadcasting career began with Cleveland's FOX affiliate WJ...

Mike Greenberg is a veteran sports broadcaster and author, best known for his long-standing career at ESPN. He co-hosted the popular radio show Mike & Mike with Mike Golic from 2000 to 2017, a program that became a staple in sports media and led to both being inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2018. Since 2018, Greenberg has hosted ESPN's morning television show Get Up! and, in 2024,...

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Howie Long, National Football League Hall of Famer and former defensive end for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders, is currently best known as an in-studio analyst for the Emmy Award-winning FOX NFL Sunday. In 2018, Long was added as an in-studio analyst to FOX Sports Thursday Night Football Pregame Show. On the gridiron, Long was regarded as one of the most feared defensive players in the history of...

Throughout the 1980’s Rowdy Gaines was the fastest swimmer on the planet. His world records confirmed his place in swimming history. The Olympic Boycott of 1980 came during the peak of his career when he set world records in the 100 M and 200M freestyles, and Swimming World Magazine voted him World Swimmer of the Year. He was expected to win five Olympic gold medals in Moscow, but he was not able...

Eric "PFT Commenter" Sollenberger is the host of Barstool Sports'  chart-topping podcast Pardon My Take. The show airs thrice weekly and PFT Commenter is joined by his co-host, Barstool Big Cat. PMT for short, Pardon My Take averages between 750k and 1.5 million listeners per episode. Apple named the show one of the twelve best podcasts of 2016, and in 2017, The Big Lead ranked Big Cat and PFT Com...

Senior MLB Insider and Columnist Jeff Passan joined ESPN in January of 2019, immediately making an impact through his position as a leading reporter in the industry. He appears regularly on ESPN studio shows, including SportsCenter, Get Up, and Baseball Tonight, writes for ESPN.com, and is a frequent guest on such ESPN podcasts as ESPN Daily and Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney. He also contribu...

Andrew Whitworth is a former offensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL. He played college football at LSU and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Whitworth was voted to the Pro Bowl four times and has been named a First-Team All-Pro twice (2015 and 2017) during his career. In his last game before retirement, after starting 235 regular season...

Brian Kenny is a veteran sportscaster renowned for his analytical approach to baseball broadcasting. Currently, he serves as a host on MLB Network, where he leads programs like MLB Now—dubbed “the show for the thinking fan”—and contributes to MLB Tonight and Top 10 Right Now. Before joining MLB Network in 2011, Kenny spent 14 years at ESPN, anchoring SportsCenter, hosting Friday Night Fights, and...

Max Kellerman is a seasoned sports broadcaster and boxing analyst renowned for his articulate commentary and engaging presence across television and radio. He began his career in the late 1990s as a boxing analyst on ESPN's Friday Night Fights, quickly gaining recognition for his insightful analysis. In 2002, Kellerman became the original host of ESPN's Around the Horn, a role he held until 2004....

Ariel Helwani is a mixed martial arts (MMA) reporter whose work appears across ESPN platforms, including ESPN+, ESPN, ESPN.com, and ESPN Audio. The award-winning MMA journalist joined ESPN in June 2018 to cover the sport. Helwani has several roles at ESPN, including: co-host of “Ariel & The Bad Guy,” a weekly MMA program on ESPN+; host of ongoing livestream and podcast “Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show” a...

Rece Davis, one of the sports industry’s preeminent hosts and a mainstay on ESPN for more than 25 years, is the host of ESPN’s Emmy Award-winning College GameDay Built by The Home Depot. He is also a host for premier college football events including the College Football Playoff National Championship and the NFL Draft on ABC, in addition to select play-by-play assignments for college football and...

Pablo Torre is a journalist, television personality, and podcast host best known today as the host and executive editor of Meadowlark Media’s Pablo Torre Finds Out (PTFO), which won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting in 2024. In 2025, PTFO was unanimously honored as a finalist for the Peabody Award and named one of New York Magazine’s Best Podcasts of the year. The show also won Best...

Ian Rapoport is an NFL Network Insider for the National Football League. He is a sportswriter, expert, and television analyst primarily covering professional football. Ian joined the NFL Network in 2012 and is known for reporting breaking information from the league and team personnel via his X account.  In 2004, Ian started his career for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, covering the Mississippi State...