1. Alex Flanagan is the Vice president of Broadcasting for the Montag group, a Wasserman company and a former American sportscaster.
35 Facts About Alex Flanagan
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Alex Flanagan is a graduate of the University of Arizona.
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Alex Flanagan began her career as a news reporter and anchor and began covering sports in 1998.
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Alex Flanagan has worked for networks including, NBC Sports, NFL Network, ESPN, and Fox Sports.
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Alex Flanagan spent five years reporting from the college football sidelines for ESPN.
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Alex Flanagan served as a sideline reporter for the College World Series, the Women's Tennis Association's tour championships, NCAA men's college basketball, and the NCAA Women's basketball tournament.
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Alex Flanagan worked both in the remote division and the studio for ESPN.
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Alex Flanagan covered spring training, the NBA playoffs, college football bowl games, the NCAA Men's basketball tournament and did a weekly segment for NFL Monday Night Countdown.
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Alex Flanagan was hired by the NFL Network as a host and reporter in 2006.
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Alex Flanagan was the network's first full-time female studio host.
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Alex Flanagan covered twelve Super Bowls and hosted a variety of studio programs including NFL Total Access.
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In 2008, Steve Bornstein, president and CEO of NFL Network, announced Alex Flanagan would be part of a new two-hour Sunday morning football show called NFL GameDay Morning.
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In 2010, Alex Flanagan joined play-by-play announcer Bob Papa and analysts Matt Millen and Joe Theismann when the NFL Network added her as its first sideline reporter for Thursday Night Football.
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Alex Flanagan was featured on the pre-game and post-game shows.
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Alex Flanagan worked for the Chargers as the team's preseason reporter with Spero Dedes and Dan Fouts.
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Alex Flanagan emceed of the NFL draft for the league with Michael Irvin in 2016 and Maurice Jones-Drew during the 2017 NFL draft on Friday, April 28,2017, in Philadelphia.
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Alex Flanagan covered the East West Shrine Bowl game and the Reeses Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama from 2015 to 2018 for the NFL Network.
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Alex Flanagan was supposed to be on punt team duty.
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Alex Flanagan became the Sideline reporter for Notre Dame Football on NBC in 2007 while pregnant with her third child, who was born in December 2007.
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In 2009, along with Al Michaels, John Madden, and Andrea Kremer, Alex Flanagan was part of the broadcast team for Super Bowl XLIII from Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.
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Alex Flanagan had roamed the South Bend sidelines for NBC since the 2007 season and appeared on FNIA every Sunday reporting from the big NFL games of the day.
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Alex Flanagan covered her first Olympic assignment for NBC in August 2008, anchoring six hours of Olympic coverage nightly on CNBC and USA Network during the Beijing Olympics.
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Alex Flanagan was on deck for the 2010 Pan Pacific championships in Australia helping call the action with Rowdy Gaines and Ted Robinson and Dan Hicks.
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Alex Flanagan previously served as a reporter in Vancouver in 2010, London in 2012, and Sochi in 2014, and was a host of CNBC and USA Network coverage during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Alex Flanagan did a segment called Today's Extra Yard which highlighted the charitable work of various NFL players.
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Alex Flanagan has written for publications and websites including USA today High school sports and INC.
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Alex Flanagan appeared in Bridgestone's ad campaign for the company's performance tires which debuted during the Winter Classic on Jan 2,2012.
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The NFL Network's Alex Flanagan announced the New England Patriots as winners of the Madden Most Valuable Protectors Award as the year's best offensive line during the week of Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas, on February 3,2011.
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Alex Flanagan can be heard and seen in the popular video games Madden NFL 10 and Madden NFL 11, in the franchise mode.
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NFL Network analysts Fran Charles and Alex Flanagan go through the week's matchups and highlights where she hosts an in-game weekly recap show called The Extra Point.
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In 2019 Alex Flanagan was announced as the first on-air hire for the Alliance of American Football.
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Alex Flanagan was the host of the league pregame, halftime, and postgame shows with Cynthia Frelund, Rod Woodson, Terrell Davis and Marvin Lewis.
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Alex Flanagan hosted The Bowerman Presentation in 2019 at the Grande Lakes Resort in Orlando, Florida.
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Alex Flanagan is married to former University of Arizona basketball player Kevin Flanagan.
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Alex Flanagan's family owns the Arizona steak restaurant, "The Steak Out".