Cari Champion

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Cari Champion in 2014

Cari Racquel Champion (born June 1, 1975 in Pasadena , California ) is an American sports journalist and television presenter. She became known through her work for the sports channel ESPN .

Career

Beginnings

Born and raised in Pasadena , California as Cari Racquel Brooks , Champion attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where she majored in English and minor in mass communication . After graduating in 1998, she went to West Virginia for her first job as a reporter and later to Florida , where she was employed by WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach in 2002 . In the following years she worked nationwide for ABC , CBS , NBC and other television stations in the fields of news, entertainment and sports, including the Orange County News Channel in Santa Ana , California , from where she switched to WGCL-TV in Atlanta . In 2007, however, she was released there because she used various swear words in a live broadcast. Although she was reinstated in 2008, Champion left the station soon again to her career outside the capital of Georgia continue. In 2009 she got a job with the Tennis Channel after she became more and more enthusiastic about the sport , especially through the appearances of the sisters Serena and Venus Williams .

ESPN

On October 1, 2012, Champion switched to the sports broadcaster ESPN and from then on hosted the sports talk show First Take on ESPN2 together with commentators Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith . She made her journalistic debut for the network in 2014 when she interviewed Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers for E: 60 magazine and gave in-depth insights into the life of the American football quarterback. In July 2015, Champion was promoted to presenter of ESPN's “flagship” SportsCenter , a sports news program that has aired since the station was founded in 1979. In February 2016, she was named co-anchorwoman for SportsCenter Coast to Coast , a show that initially ran until March 2018 but was later revived. The reason for the temporary suspension of the "Coast-to-Coast Edition" was Champions' short-term switch to the ESPN afternoon show SportsNation , where she was seen together with Elzie Lee "LZ" Granderson and Marcellus Wiley . After sporting nation had been set, returned Champion in September 2018. Sports Center back and presented Coast to Coast from the ESPN studio in Los Angeles in conjunction with David Lloyd , who at the same time from the main studio of the radio station in Bristol in the State of Connecticut moderated .

In addition, between 2016 and 2019 she also organized a weekly podcast presented by espnW entitled " Be Honest with Cari Champion ", where she and interesting guests took a look at the world of sport and pop culture . She was also featured in several promotional videos for the US passenger transport company Uber between October 2017 and February 2018 , in which she interviewed current and former NBA basketball players as an Uber driver. Prominent passengers in the clips produced under the title "Rolling With the Champion" included the two superstars Kevin Durant and LeBron James .

At the. January 9, 2020, Champion announced their decision to leave ESPN at the end of the month after a little more than seven years via Twitter . From February 2020, she switched entirely to the entertainment sector and stood in front of the camera for the second season of The Titan Games as a field reporter who conducted interviews with the participants. In the first season in 2019 she was seen alongside actor and wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson , who created and hosted the physical game show. The show was not dissimilar to the American Ninja Warrior show, which was also broadcast on NBC , but required not only physical performance but also mental skill.

Trivia

Champion has been a big fan of the Los Angeles Lakers , a basketball team from the North American professional league, National Basketball Association (NBA) , since childhood . Aside from her journalistic activities, she has also worked in a number of films and television series, such as Eleventh Hour (2008), CSI: Miami (2012) and The Bling Ring (2013), where she played a reporter each. She lives in Los Angeles and has a residence in the separate city of Beverly Hills .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Where Was Cari Champion Born? Cari Champion Hometown, Birthplace. Retrieved February 14, 2020 (American English).
  2. ^ ESPN's referee. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Cari Champion Married, Husband, Boyfriend, Height, Net Worth, ESPN. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Cari Champion Joins ESPN as Host of First Take as Show Ratings Surge. In: ESPN Press Room US September 26, 2012, accessed January 26, 2020 (American English).
  5. ^ First Take's Cari Champion debuts as E: 60 correspondent, profiles Cam Newton. In: ESPN Front Row. November 4, 2014, accessed January 26, 2020 (American English).
  6. ^ Cari Champion Announces She's Leaving 'ESPN First Take,' Twitter Congratulates Her for "Escaping" Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless. Retrieved January 26, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ ESPN brings back noon SportsCenter, cancels SportsNation, moves High Noon. In: Awful Announcing. August 9, 2018, Retrieved February 19, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ espnW presents Be Honest with Cari Champion Show - PodCenter. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  9. ^ Rolling With The Champion. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ariel Zilber: SportsCenter anchor Cari Champion stuns fans by quitting ESPN. January 10, 2020, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Cari Champion | NBCUniversal Media Village. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  12. ^ The Titan Games TV Show on NBC (Canceled or Renewed?). In: canceled + renewed TV shows - TV Series Finale. January 4, 2019, Retrieved February 19, 2020 (American English).
  13. ↑ Lakers Video: Josh Hart Visits SportsNation, Tells Cari Champion To Throw Away Clippers Gear. In: Lakers Nation. March 21, 2018, accessed January 27, 2020 (American English).
  14. ↑ Cari Champion. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  15. ↑ https://www.whitepages.com/name/Cari-Racquel-Champion/Los-Angeles-CA/11krgtz8. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Champion, Cari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Champion, Cari Racquel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sports journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena , California