About The Hosts
Meet the hosts of the ESPN Radio weekend shows.
Updated: June 21, 2016, 12:22 PM ET
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Max Bretos joined ESPN in January 2010 as an anchor, predominately appearing on SportsCenter as well as on College Football Live, MMA Live, Outside the Lines and college basketball wraps. Bretos is also a premier voice for soccer on the ESPN networks, serving as lead anchor for MLS Cup (since 2010) and appearing on ESPN's Euro 2012 coverage. A native of Miami, Bretos is the son of Cuban exiles and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. More » Twitter »
Will Cain joined ESPN in March 2015 as a contributor whose work appears across the company's various platforms. Primarily working with ESPN's Features Unit and E:60, many of his reports include written companion pieces for ESPN The Magazine or ESPN.com, and appearances on ESPN Radio programming. Cain also shares his opinions on ESPN debate shows such as First Take and His & Hers. Prior to joining ESPN, Cain served as political analyst for CNN and The Blaze. More » Twitter »
Jonathan Coachman - better known as "The Coach" - began at ESPN in August 2008. He has hosted ESPN Radio shows including Countdown to Kickoff and Coach & Company. "The Coach" is also active on TV as he hosts SportsCenter and has hosted NBA Tonight, and NASCAR Now. He has also served as a host on College Football Live, and ESPN Friday Night Fights. He previously spent nine years as a commentator for WWE company, working with such talent as The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and The Undertaker. Additionally, Coachman served as a sports anchor at the MSG Network in New York (2007-2008), KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Mo. (1999-2000) and KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kan. (1997-1999). More » Twitter »
Jeff Dickerson joined ESPN in 2001 and has served as the Chicago Bears beat reporter/writer for ESPNChicago since 2004. Dickerson is also the host of Chicago's NFL Gameday, Miller Lite's Football Night in Chicago and Chicago's Gamenight on ESPN 1000, in addition to being the primary fill-in host for Waddle and Silvy and Carmen & Jurko. Dickerson has covered eight Super Bowls, four Final Fours and anchored ESPNChicago's NFL Draft coverage since 2005. He also handles Bears' coverage for WLS-ABC 7 television and is the television analyst for Loyola Ramblers men's college basketball games. More » Twitter »
Amin Elhassan joined the ESPN NBA Insider team following a stint with the Phoenix Suns. He earned his way up the ranks with the Suns, serving as a video coordinator and college scout before finally working as the assistant director of basketball operations. While with the Suns, he also earned his MBA from Arizona State. More » Twitter »
Kate Fagan joined espnW in January 2012, after three seasons covering the 76ers for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She played basketball at the University of Colorado from 1999-2004. She can be heard on espnW Presents: Spain, Jane & Kate on ESPN Radio and seen on debate shows such as His & Hers and Around The Horn. More » Twitter »
Israel Gutierrez is a sports reporter for ESPN. Before joining the staff at ESPN, he worked for The Miami Herald as well as The Palm Beach Post. He has covered the Miami Heat for both newspapers. A South Florida native and University of Florida graduate, he also has covered the Florida Marlins. On March 18, 2008, he debuted on Around the Horn. As of July 2008, he has become a recurring panelist on the show. In November, 2008, Gutierrez began appearing on ESPN's The Sports Reporters and is now a regular panelist. More » Twitter »
Jonathan Hood is a host on ESPN 1000 and contributes to ESPNChicago.com and has been a radio broadcaster for 20 years. Hood is a two-time Chicagoland Achievement in Radio Award winner. Hood's shows specialize in fans feedback after games. He was host and creator of College Football Saturday with Steve Silverman for five years. Hood was also host of non-flagship post game shows for Cubs, Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks, Illinois and Notre Dame football and basketball and "High School Holla" a 90 minute show for high school football and basketball games. Hood has been a host for ESPN 1000 AM and contributing to ESPNChicago.com since 2005 and teams with Bruce Levine each Saturday on Talkin' Baseball. More » Twitter »
Mel Kiper Jr. has served as expert analyst for ESPN's annual NFL draft coverage since 1984, providing in-depth scouting information on the nation's most talented collegiate football players. His breadth of knowledge is unmatched and his pre-draft predictions are frequently the most accurate in the business, often as high as 80 percent correct in his first-round selections. Kiper also serves as an analyst for College GameDay on ESPN Radio, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturdays throughout the season. Additionally, he is a frequent contributor to ESPN's award-winning SportsCenter during the NFL and college football seasons and other times throughout the year. More » Twitter »
Robin Lundberg began with an internship at ESPN's "Around the Horn" while still in college at the University of Maryland. Upon graduation he moved to New York and currently works as morning and weekend host on ESPN New York 98.7 FM. Lundberg's video and written content can be found featured prominently on ESPNNewYork.com. More » Twitter »
A senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, McGee is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com, Insider, SportsCenter and ESPNU. He is also the author of The Road To Omaha: Hits, Hopes and History at the College World Series and ESPN Ultimate NASCAR: 100 Defining Moments in Stock Car Racing History. In addition to his reporting and writing, McGee also is co-host of the popular Marty & McGee podcast. He started with ESPN in 1994 working on the production staff of the show RPM2Night, during which time he began contributing to the magazine. More » Twitter »
Jane McManus has covered sports since 1998 and began covering football just before Brett Favre's stint with the Jets. Her work has appeared in Newsday, USA Today, The Journal News and The New York Times. She can be heard on espnW Presents: Spain, Jane & Kate on ESPN Radio. More » Twitter »
Dari Nowkhah is currently an anchor on SEC Network, regularly appearing on SEC Now and on Saturdays during the college football season. Additionally, he calls play-by-play for men's basketball and baseball. Additionally, Nowkhah serves as co-host of ESPN Radio's weekly Dari & Mel show (Saturdays) with Mel Kiper Jr. More » Twitter »
Dave Rothenberg can be heard co-hosting "Ruocco & Rothenberg" on ESPN New York 98.7 weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. Dave has hosted sports talk shows, served as a play-by-play announcer for basketball and hockey, served as a color commentator for football and basketball, interviewed players and coaches, written and announced sports updates and represented stations through personal appearances. Rothenberg was born and raised in Long Island. More » Twitter »
An ESPN reporter since 1996, Jeremy Schaap functions in a variety of roles at the network. He is a correspondent for E:60, the host of ESPN Radio's The Sporting Life and a frequent contributor to Outside the Lines, NFL Countdown and College Gameday. His reports, interviews and commentaries are regularly featured on SportsCenter. Schaap has won eight national Sports Emmy Awards and many other honors for his work, including two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, in 2012 and 2014, and a National Headliner Award, in 2007. He is the author of Cinderella Man, a New York Times bestseller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. His best-known stories at ESPN include a Bobby Fischer profile, which earned him the national Sports Emmy Award for writing, an award named for his father Dick Schaap, and an investigation that took him to Serbia in search of a basketball player accused of a brutal assault, which earned him the national Sports Emmy Award for journalism. More » Twitter »
Marty Smith is a bureau reporter based in Charlotte, N.C., reporting on a variety of sports including NASCAR, pro and college football and basketball and more for ESPN's news and information platforms including SportsCenter. He also is a writer for ESPN.com. Smith joined ESPN in late 2006. In addition to his reporting and writing, Smith is also co-host of the Marty & McGee podcast. More » Twitter »
Sarah Spain is the co-host of espnW Presents: The Trifecta with Spain, Jane & Kate on ESPN Radio, host of the That's What She Said podcast, a SportsCenter reporter and an espnW columnist since 2010. She was a heptathlete at Cornell and is a lifelong Chicago sports fan. More » Twitter »
Marc Stein is an ESPN NBA Insider who joined ESPN in 2000 to cover the NBA for ESPN.com. In addition to covering NBA news for all of ESPN's platforms, Stein authors the popular Weekend Dime column and ESPN's weekly NBA Power Rankings while also covering major NBA events and USA Basketball for ESPN.com. He appears regularly on SportsCenter, NBA Coast to Coast and additional news and information programming and contributes to both ESPN Radio and ESPN The Magazine's NBA coverage. Stein also hosts the podcast ESPN Soccer Today. More » Twitter »
Brian Windhorst is a sportswriter for ESPN.com who covers the NBA. He was the Cleveland Cavaliers beat writer for the Akron Beacon Journal from 2003 through the summer of 2008, and began to work for Cleveland newspaper The Plain Dealer in October 2008. He moved to ESPN in 2010 after LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat. Windhorst attended high school in Akron, Ohio at St. Vincent - St. Mary High School, the same school that James would later attend and graduated from Kent State University with a degree in journalism in 2000. Windhorst began covering James during his high school playing career and began covering the Cavaliers in 2003, the year that James was drafted. In 2010, Windhorst left the Plain Dealer for ESPN to cover James' new team, the Miami Heat. Prior to leaving The Plain Dealer, he contributed columns to ESPN.com and made appearances on ESPN First Take. More » Twitter »
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