Sarah Colby Spain (born August 18, 1980) is an espnW.com columnist, ESPN Radio host and SportsCenter Reporter for ESPN.
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Early years
Spain was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. Spain attended Cornell University, where she majored in English. Spain was a heptathlete on the Cornell Big Red track and field team, for which she was co-captain her senior year. In 1998, as a senior at Lake Forest High School, Spain was the MVP and captain of her track and field, field hockey and basketball teams.
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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. Spain also did some work as a sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network and hosted the Coors Light Fantasy Players Minute. Spain was one of the original co-hosts of the WGN-TV show "Chicago's Best," with Ted Brunson and Brittney Payton. 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. In January 2016 Spain, Jane McManus and Kate Fagan launched a new national ESPN Radio show, "The Trifecta," and Spain launched her own ESPN podcast, "That's What She Said." Spain has appeared on a variety of ESPN television shows, including "His & Hers" (formerly "Numbers Never Lie"), "Olbermann," "Mike & Mike," "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz," "First Take," "The Sports Reporters" and "Outside The Lines." On February 25, 2016, Spain made her first appearance on ESPN's Around the Horn. In September 2016, Spain inked a new multi-year deal with ESPN and launched the new national ESPN Radio show, "Izzy & Spain", with co-host Israel Gutierrez. In 2017, Sarah hosted Fantasy Football Island with Mike Golic Jr. In 2018, Spain and co-host Jason Fitz launched the new national radio show "Spain & Fitz."
Super Bowl XLI
Spain gained some notoriety in 2007, when she made a post on eBay offering to be someone's "date" to Super Bowl XLI, in which the Chicago Bears played the Indianapolis Colts. She was living in Los Angeles at the time and, expecting to go to the game with friends, she had purchased a plane ticket to Miami. However, the friends decided they couldn't afford to go, leaving Spain solo and without a game ticket, so she got creative. She has described the auction as a stunt to get media attention, with the hope that some company would try to gain publicity by sponsoring her attendance at the Super Bowl. In fact, word of the auction reached Unilever, the makers of Axe Body Spray, who covered Spain's costs to attend the game and in turn began a media campaign to "see how many guys would do the same thing for a chance to see their team play." As Spain's career in sports media has advanced, she has been critical of those who spread misinformation about the stunt or bring it up in ways which she sees as misinterpreting her actions and principles.
#MoreThanMean
In 2016, Spain, along with Chicago sports radio host Julie DiCaro, appeared in a video entitled "More Than Mean," in which unsuspecting, ordinary men read real, degrading tweets directed to Spain and DiCaro to them while sitting face-to-face. The video was meant to highlight the sexual harassment, unjust criticism, rape threats, and death threats that female sportscasters face online simply for doing their jobs. The four-minute video, produced by Just Not Sports and One Tree Forest Films, won a 2016 Peabody Award in the Public Service category.
Accolades
- Crain's Chicago 40 Under 40 (2017)
- Peabody Award (2017)
- Gracie Award (2016, 2017)
- Sports Clio Grand Award (2016)
- Crain's Chicago 40 Under 40 (2017)
References
External links
- Sarah Spain on IMDb
- Cornell University 2001-02 Women's Track and Field bio
- One on One with Sarah Spain - Cornell Alumni Association
- Sarah Spain profile on Facebook
- Sarah Spain profile on Twitter
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