16 Facts About Cari Champion

Cari Champion was born on June 1,1978 and is an American broadcast journalist and television personality.

Cari Champion was the host of The Cari Champion Show on Amazon Prime Video Sports Talk.

Cari Champion has worked as an anchor and reporter for the Tennis Channel and as the host of ESPN2's First Take.

In July 2014, Champion became an anchor for ESPN's flagship program SportsCenter.

Cari Champion was born in June 1978 and raised in Pasadena, California.

Cari Champion attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in English and minored in mass communications.

Cari Champion wrote for the Daily Bruin and was inspired to pursue a career in journalism by UCLA alumni, including Matea Gold of the Washington Post, who was the editor in chief of the student newspaper.

Cari Champion graduated from UCLA in 2000, with an English degree.

Cari Champion moved to West Virginia for her first reporting job.

In November 2007, while working as an anchor for WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Cari Champion was fired for allegedly uttering a profanity over the air.

Cari Champion worked as a courtside reporter, and anchored the channel's Court Report news segment.

Cari Champion worked as an entertainment reporter for the Starz network and shows such as The Insider and Hollywood 411.

On October 1,2012, Cari Champion joined ESPN as the new host of ESPN2's live debate show First Take.

Cari Champion was hired over Heidi Watney and Jemele Hill for the job.

Lange tweeted an apology to Cari Champion the following day and ESPN issued a statement to Sports Illustrated that rebuked Lange's tweets, while Cari Champion did not respond publicly.

In 2022, Embassy Row announced that Champion will host The Cari Champion Show on Amazon Prime Video.