Mina Mugil Kimes was born on September 8,1985 and is an American journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting.
15 Facts About Mina Kimes
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Mina Kimes has written for Fortune, Bloomberg News, and ESPN.
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Mina Kimes is a senior writer at ESPN and an analyst on NFL Live.
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Mina Kimes's father served in the United States Air Force as a captain.
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Mina Kimes attended Mesquite High School in Gilbert, Arizona and was valedictorian.
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Mina Kimes joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an investigative reporter.
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Mina Kimes is an active panelist on Around the Horn and has appeared on First Take, Highly Questionable, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, Pardon the Interruption, Debatable, and High Noon.
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Mina Kimes signed with Omaha Productions in 2022 to be producers of her podcast.
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From October 2019 until July 2020, Mina Kimes hosted ESPN Daily, a daily news podcast.
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On June 30,2020, Mina Kimes was announced as an NFL analyst for ESPN's relaunch of NFL Live for the 2020 NFL season.
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In March 2025, Mina Kimes called out the Trump administration during an appearance on Around the Horn for removing an article honoring Jackie Robinson's military service from the Department of Defense website as part of its anti-DEI mission.
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In 2019, Mina Kimes was hired by the Los Angeles Rams to be a color commentator for their preseason football games.
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Mina Kimes was a co-host, along with Amanda Dobbins, of The Ringer's Big Little Live after-show about the HBO series Big Little Lies.
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On November 29,2020, Mina Kimes helped celebrity chef David Chang become the first celebrity to win the $1,000,000 top prize for his charity, Southern Smoke Foundation, and the fourteenth overall million dollar winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, along with Alan Yang as his supporter, via the phone-a-friend lifeline on the million-dollar question.
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Mina Kimes has expressed her support for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners, in part due to her father being from Seattle.