20 beautiful female ESPN reporters in 2023 are 1. Antonietta Collins 2. Maria Taylor 3. Charissa Thompson. Scroll to find the list of 17 more ESPN reporters to follow.
ESPN is an American international sports channel that has coverage of different sports, such as basketball, hockey, baseball, racing, and many more.
The channel also covers many sporting events such as NBA, NFL, NHL, X Games, and other events. For every such sporting event, some anchors or journalists present the viewers and audiences with things happening right there giving them details about the games.
And there are some anchors you can’t take your eyes away from. In recent times, female news reporters have taken the lead in analyzing, anchoring, and hosting sporting shows.
Though not much in count as their male counterparts, they have proven essential for the industry’s success. The female reporters radiate their confidence, charisma, and sensuality throughout their feminity. Their physical appearance and mental attitude captivate the viewers, making them see beauty with brains.
Here is the list of 20 beautiful female ESPN reporters in 2023 for which we celebrate the elegance of their beauty and talent.
1. Antonietta Collins
Antonietta “Toni” Gonzalez-Collins is one of the most beloved ESPN Mexican-American news reporters. The reporter was born on November 22, 1985.
Collins started her journey at ESPN in 2016 and works as a news anchor for SportsCenter and host for SportsNation from time to time.
Collins started her journey in sports at the young age of 10 playing soccer and was also asked to join Mexico’s national team in the under-19 division.
She completed high school at St. Brendan High School and graduated from Mount Union College with a bachelor’s degree in communication with a priority on sports management.
Collins started her profession as a production assistant at Univision. Later, she also worked with CBS Sports Radio in Florida and as a sports reporter covering for sports teams such as the football team Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the hockey team Tampa Bay Lightning.
The news anchor had to audition two times for ESPN to be hired in the channel.
2. Maria Taylor
6 foot 2 tall sportscaster Maria Taylor is one of the biggest names in sports anchor currently working for NBC Sports.
Born on May 12, 1987, to her parents Steve and Suzette Taylor, she was named Suzette Maria Taylor at birth. She completed high school at Centennial High School in Georgia. She had made a successful career in a four-year basketball career receiving many awards for her performances.
Along with her performance in basketball, Maria was also very proficient in volleyball.
Taylor continued her studies at the University of Georgia under an athletic scholarship where she continued her journey in volleyball and basketball till her final year in college.
After her sports career, she started her reporter profession beginning with IMG College, appearing alongside in Dawg Report, SEC Men’s Basketball Tonight and SportsNite.
Taylor came into the spotlight when she started her reporting from ESPN in 2013. She was the sideline reporter for a college football telecast. She also covered for NCAA Women’s Basketball from selection to tournament.
The hostess joined SEC Network in 2014 where she joined College GameDay as a host and reporter. In 2019, she hosted NBA Countdown for ESPN. She continued to serve under ESPN till July 2021. After that, she switched to NBC.
Currently, she serves as the host for men’s and women’s football.
3. Charissa Thompson
One of the most well-known tv sports news reporters, Charissa Thompson was born on May 4, 1982.
Born on May 4, 1982, as Charissa Jean Thompson, she started her hosting from Fox Sports as an American tv host and sportscaster. Raised in Seattle, she was the youngest child of her family with an aspiring dream to be a broadcaster from an early age.
Thompson graduated high school from Inglemoor High School. After graduation, she moved to California to a community college later transferring to the University of California graduating with a B.A. in Law and Society.
Thompson started her journey with journalism by appearing on different college sports shows on Big Ten Network and Fox Sports Net.
The news anchor appeared on shows on Big Ten Network such as Big Ten’s Best and Friday Night Tailgate. Thompson began to work with Fox Sports Net in 2007, where she was included in The Baseball Report, BCS Breakdown, The BCS Show and many more.
She later hosted a rodeo show called Toughest Cowboy. Afterward in 2009, she left Fox News and began her career with ESPN in 2010. She began her hosting at ESPN by appearing on NFL Now Updates.
Alongside that, she was also the co-host for Fast Track To Fame with retired NASCAR driver-owner Michael Waltrip. In 2011, with Michael Smith, she co-hosted Numbers Never Lie which debuted on September 12, 2011. She also hosted SportsNation and First Take for ESPN.
Later in June 2013, she rejoined Fox Sports and began to host Fox Sports Live and became a presenter for Fox NFL Kickoff. And she has been with Fox Sports Nets to this day.
4. Samantha Ponder
One of the Hottest TV reporters and equally charming and competent reporters Samantha Ponder is the best-known American sportscaster for ESPN.
Born on December 11, 1985, she was born Samantha Steele later marrying to then-Minnesota Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder on December 17, 2012.
Raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Samantha graduated high school from Central High School. After graduating high school, she was admitted to The King’s College in New Yorker. Later when was offered a job as a sideline reporter for the Liberty Flames sports television network, she transferred to Liberty University.
Samantha was given the opportunity as a sideline reporter when she met Ben Keeperman while applying for a hostess job at ESPN which led her to an internship turned into a researcher-assistant job with ABC-TV. She met Liberty’s Sr. Sports Producer Burce Carey.
After her graduation from the university in 2009, she worked for Fox Sports Net and Fox College Sports. Later in 2011, she was hired by ESPN’s Longhorn Network as a sideline reporter.
Samantha already has three beautiful children. Two daughters and a son. Even then, no one can say Samantha looks any older than when she started as a reporter.
5. Allie LaForce
An American journalist, model and beauty pageant titleholder, Allie Laforce is well regarded as one of the renowned reporters.
Alexandra Leigh LaForce aka Allie LaForce was born on December 11, 1988. She was raised in Vermilion, Ohio where she completed her high school and attended Ohio University where she played five games for freshman year as a guard for the Bobcats’ women’s basketball team.
Allie competed for Miss Ohio Teen USA 2005 title in September 2004. Later she won the competition and was crowned by Miss Teen USA 2005. You may not know, but her mother Lesa (Rummell) LaForce herself was Miss Ohio USA in 1977.
Allie started her journey of journalism working as a sideline reporter for Sportstime Ohio for the 2010 Mid-American Conference’s football season. Later she also worked for men’s basketball tournaments and championships.
After her college, she signed up for Fox’s affiliate, WJW channel 8 as a reporter and sports anchor. In 2014, she started to report for the SEC on CBS and afterward worked as a sideline reporter for NBA TV for NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
Though she left CBS in 2018 due to not being able to come to terms with a new deal, she still makes a timely appearance for March Madness on CBS.
After some time, the beauty pageant winner signed a deal with Turner Sports, continuing her role as a sideline reporter for NBA TNT and NCAA Tournament.
Currently, the model reporter is married to MLB relief pitcher Joe Smith who can confidently say he is a fortunate guy.
6. Molly Qerim
Born on March 31, 1984, Molly Qerim is an American television reporter best known for her being a host of ESPN’s First Take.
Molly was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut. She graduated high school from Cheshire High School and later attended the University of Connecticut graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and a minor in business administration.
After that, she received her master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Quinnipiac University. She is one of the few female reporters who have completed their master’s degree in journalism.
Qerim anchored and reported for CBS Sports Network, hosting different shows such as SEC Tailgate Show, SEC Tonight, Full Court Press and many more for CBS.
Later, she also covered the UFC for ESPN, Versus (NBCSN) and FS1 which gave her the opportunity for co-hosting World MMA Awards.
Qerim hosted College Football Live for ESPN and ESPN2. She was awarded an Emmy for her contribution to Fantasy Football Now on ESPN2 where she was the breaking news reporter.
Other than that, she also has covered multiple shows such as Super Bowls, NBA Draft, the MLB All-Star game and many more interviews and reporting. She was also promoted to SportsCenter. The stunning reporter was later promoted to permanent host of First Take in September 2015.
The reporter was married to former NBA star and fellow ESPN host Jalen Rose. But on December 2021, Rose filed for divorce from Qerim.
7. Cassidy Hubbarth
Evanston native ESPN anchor Cassidy Hubbarth was born on September 19, 1984. The reporter was a three-sport athlete for four years in her high school.
The sports reporter was born in Chicago and raised in Evanston to her mother Emmeline and Gerry Hubbarth. Her mother is of Filipino descent while her father is of German and Irish descent.
Cassidy graduated high school from Evanston Township High School in 2003. She attended the University of Illinois for one year before switching to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Hubbarth has worked as a hostess and reporter for the Big Ten Network and Fox Sports South. For her good work in SEC Gridiron Live, she was awarded a Southeast Emmy for Interactivity.
The reporter then moved to ESPN in August 2010 where she worked as a studio anchor and host for college basketball, college football and NBA.
Cassidy has also hosted shows such as Madden Bowl, Georgia Pro Day NBA Tonight, Highlight Express, Numbers Never Lie, First Take and many other shows.
She was also included in the list of Hot 100 List made by Maxim Magazine.
8. Jaymee Sire
Jaymee Sire is a well-known tv host and sports reporter who worked for ESPN. Currently, the reporter mostly working on her own podcast show.
Sire was born on August 25, 1980, and raised in Great Falls, Montana. She graduated from Great Falls High School and later graduated from Washington State University in 2002.
After graduation, the reporter worked at KRTV in her hometown before moving to KFMB in San Diego in 2003. Laterwards, she switched to CSN Bay Area from 2008 to 2013 covering for Golden State Warriors, and San Francisco Giants.
With her new opportunity at ESPN, she left CSN Bay Area. She served as a sideline reporter for Little League World Series and helped launch Sports Center: AM.
The reporter has been awarded Pacific Southwest Emmy Award for Best Sports Story in 2007 and RTNA Southern California Golden Mic Award for Best Feature Reporting in 2004 while she was at KFMB. She also won Northern California Emmy Award for her work on All A’s:A’s in Japan.
Unfortunately, Jaymee was laid off by ESPN along with 99 other employees in April 2017. But she didn’t get demotivated and started her steps towards food television.
Sire has been mostly collaborating with Food Network where she has been appearing as a guest host and judge for different shows. Now, she currently hosts her own podcast Food Network Obsessed. The podcast has been nominated for Webby Awards and People’s Choice Podcast Awards and has won Signal Awards in 2023.
9. Katie Nolan
Katherine Beth Nolan aka Katie Nolan is one of the popular American television sports hosts known for sarcastic one-liners from time to time.
Nolan was born on January 28, 1987, and grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts. She graduated from Framingham High School in 2005 and graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations with a minor in Dance in 2009.
Though her ride to journalism was not smooth. She was working as a bartender in Boston. At that time around, she began to blog called Bitches Can’t Hang focusing on pop culture and news which jump-started her current career. In her interview with GQ, she showed her regret on starting her career in that way.
Nolan also worked with Fox Sports Yardbreaker where she hosted a series called Guyism Speed Round on Youtube. Her monologues in the series were comedic and sarcastic similar to SNL.
The host joined Fox Sports as a digital correspondent for Crowd Goes Wild. Later she hosted a web series with Fox Sports called No Filter with Katie Nolan.
In late 2017, she joined ESPN and started to appear as a debut guest for ESPN’s Highly Questionable. The same year she also started a podcast with ESPN and began to host the show called SportsCenter on Snapchat.
In 2018, she began to host a weekly ESPN podcast called Sports? with Katie Nolan which was changed to biweekly in 2020. She also launched her ESPN+ series Always Late with Katie Nolan.
With the cancellation of Always late in 2020, she also departed from ESPN.
10. Cari Champion
Brilliant and fluent with words, Cari Champion is one of the most beautiful women who work in the field of journalism as a well-known reporter.
An American reporter and television personality, Cari Champion was born on June 1, 1978. She is famously known for her work as a host of ESPN2’s First Take and as anchor and reporter for the Tennis Channel.
Raised in Pasadena, California, Champion graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with English as her major and mass communication as her minor.
As an English major, Cari used to write for Daily Bruin. Due to her good grasp of the language, her university alumni recommended her to pursue journalism, one of which was Matea Gold from the Washington Post. Later she got an opportunity to intern at CNN.
Champion worked on several television stations such as Orange County Newschannel, WPTV-TV, WGCL-TV and many others. She auditioned for the Tennis Channel news department.
Cari started her work at ESPN in 2012 as a new host for ESPN2’s live debate show First Take. Her exclusive profiling and interviewing with American football quarterback Cam Newton began her journalistic way for the network.
Afterward, she was promoted to become an anchor for ESPN’s flagship program SportsCenter’s morning edition after hosting her last episode on First Take.
The reporter later co-hosted Cari and Jemele (Won’t) Stick to Sports on the Vice from August 2020 to February 2021. Currently, she hosts her debut show, The Cari Champion show on Amazon Prime Video.
11. Olivia Harlan
Evaluated as a bright star in the future as a young reporter, Olivia Harlan Dekker is one of the emerging prominent reporters in recent years.
Our reporter was born on April 8, 1993, and grew up in Mission Hills. She got her reporter gene from her father, Kevin Harlan, the play-by-play announcer and interest from her grandfather Bob Harlan, the former Green Bay Packer’s chief executive officer.
Along with her interest in journalism, she is also a famous model and was named Miss Kansas Teen USA in 2010. So, she has also been seen modeling from time to time.
After her graduation from the University of Georgia in 2014, Olivia began to cover for SEC and ACC football for FOX Sports South and Raycom. She has also worked as a sideline reporter for Green Bay Packers on Packers TV Network.
Along with her father Kevina as a play-by-play reporter and Olivia as a sideline reporter, the duo became the first father-daughter to call an NFL game together.
In addition to working for ESPN in 2015, she has also hosted shows such as World TeamTennis for CBS Sports in 2019 and Big Ten Network in 2020. She also joined as a host for BetMGM.
Currently, Olivia is married to professional basketball player Sam Dekker and the couple has a beautiful child. She serves as the board of directors for Children’s Cancer Family Foundations.
12. Lindsay Czarniak
Lindsay Czarniak, the daughter of the local newspaper’s sports department was born on November 7, 1977. She is currently 45 years old.
Lindsay Ann Czarniak aka Lindsay Czarniak is an American sports anchor and reporter currently working for Fox Sports. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to her father Chet Czarniak and her mother Terri Czarniak.
Raised with a sports newsman father, Lindsay began to love sports at a young age. She played Lacrosse and field hockey at her high in Centreville High School. Later, she graduated from James Madison University in 2000 in online journalism.
The reporter started as an intern for WUSA and later began her career as a CNN production assistant. She got her first on-air role as a news reporter from WAWS. She also worked with WTEV-TV, WTVJ and the Speed Channel.
Later she received a call from the legendary reporter George Michael to work as a sports anchor and reporter along with him on his show, The George Michael Sports Machine on WRC-TV. She also was given an opportunity to report on the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy. She was also the pit reporter for NASCAR Nationwide Series.
After leaving WRC-TV in 2011, Czarniak began her journey at ESPN in SportsCenter covering the evening’s preseason football games. On April 24, 2013, she became the first woman to telecast the coverage of the Indianapolis 500 taking the place of Brent Musburger. After the end of her contract with ESPN, she left in 2017.
Currently, she is working with Fox Sports as a sideline reporter for NFL.
The reporter married WRC-TV reporter and anchors Craig Melvin on October 15, 2011. The couple holds two children, a son in March 2014 and a daughter in November 2016.
13. Erin Andrews
One of the most well-known blonde sideline reporters is Erin Andrews who is an amazing American sportscaster, tv personality and actress.
A native of Lewiston, Maine, Erin was born on May 4, 1978. She was born to her father Steven Andrews, a broadcast journalist and Paula Andrews, a teacher.
Her father has been a big inspiration for her. Six-time Emmy Award winner Steven was an investigative reporter for NBC affiliate WFLA-TV. From a young age, the actress’s life has always revolved around sports and watching games with her father.
Andrew graduated her high school from Bloomingdale High School in Valrico. She also attended the Brandon School of Dance Arts while growing up. She later attended the University of Florida graduating with a BA in telecommunications.
After her graduation, Erin began to be employed as a freelance reporter for Fox Sports Florida. Later she reported for the Sunshine Network as a Tampa Bay Lightning. She also worked for Turner South as a host and reporter.
Andrews finally got the opportunity to work at ESPN in April 2004. She reported for College World Series, Little League World Series, Great Outdoor Games and many more.
Andrews served as a sideline reporter for ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime in 2005. She also hosted the first hour of ESPN’s College Gameday in 2010.
Later, on June 2012, she left her work at ESPN and joined Fox Sports. Since then she has become the lead sideline reporter for the NFL broadcasting team.
From 2014, the reporter began to co-host Dancing with the Stars with Tom Bergeron for the show’s 18th season continuing the role through the 28th season.
The hostess is currently married to professional hockey player Jarret Stoll on June 24, 2017.
14. Katie George
Crowned as Miss Kentucky USA 2015, Katie George had begun her career in pageantry in 2015. Before that, she was also a well-known volleyball player in her college years.
Born on December 3, 1993, American sportscaster Katie George was born and raised in Lebanon, Kentucky. The reporter is of Lebanese descent, and her grandfather’s family had come to the USA from Hamat, Lebanon.
George graduated her high school from Assumption High School, an all-girls Catholic school. There she started her journey on the volleyball team. She was awarded Prep Volleyball’s National Player of the Year.
After graduating from high school, she went to attend the University of Louisville, where she continued her volleyball journey. Her final two years of college play were the first participation of her university team at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
She also participated in the 2015 pageantry where she was crowned Miss Kentucky USA 2015. She later also participated in Miss USA 2015 representing Kentucky and reached the top 11 contestants.
Afterward, she graduated with a degree in communications and in sports administration. After her graduation from the university, she interned at CBS Sports.
Katie began her reporting career by being hired at WDRB in Louisville, Kentucky. After some time, she joined Fox Sports Wisconsin to cover for Milwaukee Bucks for the NBA season. In 2019, she joined ACC Network covering football games.
Katie joined ESPN full-time in 2021 covering college football games.
15. Dianna Russini
Though not famous as other ESPN reporters, Dianna Russini is also one of the beautiful sportscasters who has worked as a host, reporter, analyst and many more.
Born as Dianna Marie Russini, she was born on February 11, 1983, in The Bronx. Afterward, she grew up in New Jersey where she attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan. She was involved in soccer, basketball, softball and track.
After her graduation from her high school, she attended George Mason University, where she played soccer for four seasons.
After her graduation from her university, she joined WNBC where she was the youngest reporter to be hired at WNBC. Later she joined CSN Northwest as a reporter and anchor after moving to Seattle.
Along with that, she also anchored for News 12 Westchester, WRC-TV and WVIT. She worked as the main sports anchor for WRC-TV. Russini was given an opportunity to work at ESPN after the executive of Disney saw her reporting in DC.
Currently, she has become a SportsCenter anchor and sideline reporter along with Tom Luginbill for ESPN’s XFL Saturday afternoon games.
Russini is also married to Kevin Goldschmidt. The couple also shares two children together. Their first was named Michael Andrew and their second child is named Joseph “Joey” Kevin.
16. Nicole Briscoe
Nicole Briscoe is one the known reports person who has been recorded as one of the highest reporters to participate in beauty pageants.
Born as Nicole Manske on July 2, 1980, Nicole is an American sports reporter who is currently working for ESPN. She was born in Roscoe, Illinois. She also graduated high school from Hononegah High School in 1998.
Nicole later participated and won Miss Illinois Teen USA in 1998. She then competed in Miss Teen USA where she became a semi-finalist. She participated in Miss Illinois USA in 2001 and won the first runner-up position.
Nicole continued her studies at Northern Illinois University. After graduation, she landed her first job at WERX-TV, the NBC channel in Rockford. She then moved to WANE-TV as a general assignment reporter, again changing to WISH-TV in April 2004.
During her time at WISH-TV, Briscoe began to cover reporting for Indianapolis 500, the United States Grand Prix, and many more. She also worked as a pit reporter for Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network. In 2006, she left WISH-TV.
The reporter was appointed to co-host The Speed Report hosting from 2006 to 2008. After that, she was called in ESPN2 to host the news on NASCAR Now in 2008.
The reporter co-hosted the NASCAR pre-race on ESPN from 2008 to 2014. She now serves as a SportsCenter anchor.
Currently, the news anchor is married to Ryan Briscoe in Hawaii in 2009. The couple has two daughters together.
17. Michelle Beadle
One of the beautiful reporters of ESPN listed on our list is Michelle Beadle who worked as a reporter for ESPN two times.
Michelle Denise Beadle aka Michelle Beadle was born on October 23, 1975. She is currently 47 years old. She was born to her parents Bob Beadle and her mother Serenella Paladino.
Beadle graduated high school from Boerne High School. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Texas at Austin learning political science as a pre-law student. Though she worked in a legal career for three years, she later stopped pursuing her career in it.
She again graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The reporter started her career as an intern for the San Antonio Spurs and was given the opportunity to report for them. She then started her career with Fox Sports News. In 2002, she moved to TNN to cover the Professional Bull Rider Bud Light Cup Tour worker full-time.
The news reporter also has experience working with Travel Channel and YES Network. She also hosted different shows such as People.com’s What You Missed Over The Weekend, Fine Living Network’s I Want Your Job, and other hosting rather than sporting. She has also hosted Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, SAG Awards and similar awards shows.
In 2009, Beadle began her career at ESPN where she continued to work with them till 2010. She was invited to work at NBC where she co-hosted a show The Crossover With Beadle And Briggs. She then left the news channel in 2014.
The same year she again returned to ESPN and began co-hosting SportsNation. Later that year, she joined ESPN subsidiary, Grantland hosting her podcast called Beadlemania.
In 2018, the reporter co-hosted ESPN’s morning show called Get Up! with Jalen Rose and Mike Greenberg. Though she returned to her former channel, she did not stay here for a long time. In 2019, she left the network.
Currently, she works as a freelance reporter and runs her own podcast. She is also currently single.
18. Molly McGrath
American sportscaster and ESPN’s college football telecaster Molly McGrath is a well-known public figure and reporter
The reporter was born on June 61 1989 as Molly Anne McGrath born in San Fransico, California. She was born to her mother Deborah of Mexican-Spanish descent and her father Michael McGrath of Irish descent. She also has a brother named Patrick.
McGrath graduated high school from St. Ignatius College Preparatory in 2007 and then attended Boston College graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Broadcast Journalism.
In her college year, she used to take interviews with athletes and coaches to put those interviews on her college website BCEagles.com. Those interview reels helped her land her first job.
After graduation, Molly interned at NESN and WHDH-TV. She began her first work at ESPN as a production assistant. In 2011 she was hired as a web reporter for Boston Celtics where she hosted, produced and edited all the daily updates for the Celtics website. She also worked for Comcast SportsNet New England and CSNNE.
Her work with the Celtics impressed an executive of Fox Sports and was offered a job via Facebook. She was later hired in 2013. She also joined Mike Hill as a co-host for America’s Pregame show. She was appointed as the lead sideline reporter for Fox College Football and Fox College Basketball.
In 2016, McGrath returned to ESPN to co-host College Football Live and began to host similar shows with different other hosts for the show. She also worked sidelines for ESPN College Football Friday Primetime and covered many games such as Orange Bowl, Texas Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl and others.
The reporter covered ESPN’s XFL (2020). In 2021, she was selected to co-host the College Football Playoff National Championship along with Holly Rowe.
Currently, she is married to Max Dorsch, a real estate investment professional and lives in Seattle. The couple is blessed with a son.
19. Sarah Spain
Adorned with many awards for her works and achievement, there are no simple words for the American sportscaster Sarah Spain.
Sarah Colby Spain aka Sarah Spain was born on August 18, 1980, in Cleveland, Ohio. She was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois where she attended high school at Lake Forest High School. Spain was the MVP and captain of field hockey, basketball and track and field.
The reporter graduated from Cornell University where she majored in English.
Spain got infamous for the stunt of posting to be someone’s date on eBay to Super Bowl XLI. Unilever was also part of her stunt.
She worked as a host for Fox Sports Net, ChicagoNow.com, and many more. She also worked as a sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network and co-host for WGN-TV. She later joined ESPN in 2010 and signed as a writer for espnW.com.
The reporter was also selected for a new radio show called Spain and Prim co-hosting with Prim Siripipat. Later in 2016, she also launched her own ESPN Podcast called, That’s What She Said. She also made her first appearance on ESPN’s Around the Horn.
The podcaster also launched a national ESPN Radio Show, Izzy and Spain co-hosting with Israel Gutierrez. She hosted Fantasy Football Island with Mike Golic Jr.
Spain has also appeared in various shows such as His & Hers, Mike & Mike, First Take and many more similar shows.
Spain has also been awarded Crains’s Chicago 40 under 40, Peabody Award, Gracie Award, Sports Emmy Award and many more awards.
The hostess is currently married to Brad Zeitung. Both of them are blessed with two beautiful daughters.
20. Alex Flanagan
As the last on this beautiful ESPN reporter, we have American sportscaster Alex Flanagan.
Born on September 22, 1973, she was raised in Sonoita, Arizona. Her birth name is Alex Wystrach.
The reporter graduated from the University of Arizona. After her graduation, she started her career as an intern at KVOA-TV. After her intern, she got her first TV job as a general assignment news reporter at KCCO-TV. She then moved to WSFA-TV working there for two years.
In 1998, Alex began her career as a reporter for the National Sports Report at Fox Sports. She also worked in Goin’ Deep where she met Keith Olbermann who selected her as the co-host of his show The Keith Olbermann Evening News.
After leaving Fox Sports in 2000, the reporter started work for ESPN on college football sidelines. She was then given an opportunity to work as a reporter for SportsCenter where she frequently reported for the Lakers, Dodgers, Angels, UCLA and many others.
Later the reporter was hired by NFL Network in 2006 and become the first full-time female studio host. She covered 12 Super Bowl shows and different programs. From 2015 to 2018, Flanagan covered East West Shrine Bowl Game and Reeses Senior Bowl.
The reporter has also served as a sideline reporter for the College World Series, Women’s Tennis Association’s tour championship, NCAA Women’s basketball and did weekly segment for NFL Monday Night Countdown.
Along with covering news from football games, she has also covered Olympics news for NBC from 2008 to 2016.
Alex Flanagan is currently married to her husband Kevin Flanagan. The couple has three children two daughters and a son.