23 Facts About Sage Steele

Sage Marie Steele was born on November 28,1972 and is an American television anchor who is the former co-host of the 12 noon SportsCenter on ESPN.

Sage Steele hosted SportsCenter on the Road from various sporting events such as the Super Bowl and The Masters, and NBA Countdown on ESPN and ABC for four seasons, ending in 2017.

Sage Steele hosted SportsCenters daytime coverage of the NBA Finals in 2012 and 2013, and covered every NBA Finals from 2012 to 2020.

Sage Steele is the daughter of Gary and Mona Sage Steele.

Sage Steele's father is African-American and her mother is of Irish-Italian descent.

Gary Sage Steele became the first black varsity football player at West Point during the mid-1960s.

Sage Steele retired from the army as a colonel after a career of 23 years.

Sage Steele was born in 1972 into an American Army family living in the Panama Canal Zone.

Sage Steele graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sports communication.

Sage Steele's reporting duties included the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 auto races, and local college and high school sports.

Sage Steele's next stop was the ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa, Florida, from 1998 to 2001, where she was a sports reporter with former WFTS sports director and former SportsCenter host Jay Crawford and current "NFL RedZone" host Scott Hanson.

Sage Steele worked at Fox Sports Florida as a reporter, continuing to cover teams throughout Central Florida, including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Orlando Magic, Tampa Bay Lightning and South Florida Bulls.

Sage Steele was one of Comcast SportsNet's original personalities, joining that network when it launched that year.

Sage Steele served six years as a reporter and anchor at CSN Mid-Atlantic, and she was a beat reporter for the Baltimore Ravens.

Sage Steele hosted the Scripps National Spelling Bee from 2010 to 2013.

Sage Steele became the noon SportsCenter co-anchor with Matt Barrie in February 2021.

Sage Steele had anchored the 6 pm ET edition of the show for several years before moving to noon.

On October 5,2021, Sage Steele was suspended with pay by ESPN for remarks she made on Jay Cutler's September 29 podcast about COVID-19 vaccine mandates, women who dress in a way she feels is provocative, and Barack Obama calling himself black even though he, like Sage Steele, has a white mother.

Sage Steele filed a lawsuit against ESPN in April 2022, alleging that the network had retaliated against her in the months following the suspension.

Sage Steele's suit accused ESPN of taking opportunities away from her and steadily degrading her career, alleging that her free speech rights were being curtailed through ESPN's retaliation against her for comments she had made as a private citizen.

The parties settled the lawsuit in August 2023, at which point Sage Steele left the network.

In March 2021, Sage Steele put her home in Avon, Connecticut, on the market for $1.6 million, after doing extensive renovations.

Sage Steele was on the board of the Pat Tillman Foundation.