Christine Brennan was born on May 14,1958 and is a sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator on ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and NPR, and a best-selling author.
12 Facts About Christine Brennan
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Christine Brennan was the first female sports reporter for the Miami Herald in 1981, the first woman at the Washington Post on the Washington Redskins beat in 1985, and the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media in 1988.
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Christine Brennan received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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Christine Brennan covered the Miami Hurricanes during their trip to the 1984 Orange Bowl national championship game, after which she wrote her first book, The Miracle of Miami.
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Christine Brennan covered the Washington Redskins beat for three years, then moved on to covering the Olympic Games.
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Christine Brennan worked for the Post for 12 years before joining USA Today as its national sports columnist in 1997.
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Christine Brennan has written seven books on sports, including best-selling Inside Edge, about Olympic figure skating, which was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated in 2002.
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Christine Brennan is an on-air commentator for ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour, and NPR.
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Christine Brennan has covered every Olympic Games, summer and winter, since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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In 1988, Christine Brennan was elected the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media.
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Christine Brennan is currently working on an unauthorized book on Caitlin Clark and the revolution in women's sports to be published by Scribner in 2025.
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Christine Brennan is a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University and is a former national trustee at the University of Toledo.