Sarah Spain

Sarah Spain is an espnW.com columnist, ESPN Radio host and SportsCenter Reporter for ESPN.

Early years

Spain was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. Spain attended Cornell University majoring in English. Sarah was a Heptathlete for the Cornell Big Red track and field team.[1] As a senior in high school, Spain was the MVP and captain of her track and field, field hockey and basketball teams.[2][3]

Career

Before joining ESPN, Spain worked for Fox Sports Net, MouthpieceSports.com, ChicagoNow.com and was the recurring guest-host of WGN's radio show called ChicagoNow Radio.[1] Spain also did some work as a sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network and hosted the Coors Light Fantasy Players Minute. Spain appeared on WGN-TV's weekly sports show "Chicago's Best" with co-hosts Ted Brunson and Brittney Payton.[1] Her career got a great boost from a stunt she made in 2007 prior to Super Bowl 41, wherein she placed a listing on eBay that showed her in multiple revealing outfits and offered herself as a companion to the game to any man who had an extra ticket. Though she would be accused afterward of objectifying and sexualizing herself, the eBay stunt garnered Spain a lot of attention on sports talk radio, increasing her public profile significantly. She joined ESPN 1000 in Chicago in 2010 and signed on as a writer for espnW.com in October of the same year. On January 23, 2015, it was announced ESPN was launching a new radio show called Spain & Prim with Spain and anchor Prim Siripipat as the co-hosts.[4] In January of 2016 Spain, Jane McManus and Kate Fagan launched a new national ESPN Radio show, "The Trifecta." Spain has appeared on a variety of ESPN television shows, including "Numbers Never Lie," "His And Hers," "Olbermann" and "Outside The Lines." On February 25, 2016, Sarah made her first appearance on ESPN's Around the Horn which like the previous two first time panelists, made it to Showdown and lost, which Sarah's (like LZ Granderson the month before) was against Jackie MacMullan.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sarah Spain's Website". sarahspain.com. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Title IX 40 for 40: Sarah Spain". ivyleaguesports.com.
  3. ↑ "His & Hers: Finding Your Voice: 12/17/15". ESPN.Go.com. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Two women are bringing down the last old boys club with the help of ESPN". USA Today. Retrieved January 23, 2015.

External links

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