In 1998, as a senior at Lake Forest High School, Sarah Spain was the MVP and captain of her track and field, field hockey and basketball teams.
11 Facts About Sarah Spain
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Sarah Spain was a heptathlete on the Cornell Big Red track and field team, for which she was co-captain her senior year.
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Sarah Spain first gained widespread attention in 2007 when she made a post on eBay offering to be someone's "date" to Super Bowl XLI, in which the Chicago Bears played the Indianapolis Colts.
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Sarah Spain was living in Los Angeles at the time and, expecting to go to the game with friends, had purchased a plane ticket to Miami.
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Sarah Spain described the auction as a stunt to get media attention, with the hope that a company would try to gain publicity by sponsoring her attendance at the Super Bowl.
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Sarah Spain worked as a sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network and hosted the Coors Light Fantasy Players Minute.
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Sarah Spain was one of the original co-hosts of the WGN-TV show Chicago's Best, with Ted Brunson and Brittney Payton.
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Sarah Spain joined ESPN 1000 in Chicago in 2010 and signed on as a writer for espnW.
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On February 25,2016, Sarah Spain made her first appearance on ESPN's Around the Horn.
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On March 1,2021, the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League announced that Sarah Spain had joined the women's soccer team's ownership group.
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Sarah Spain was bought out when Laura Ricketts' investor group purchased the team in September 2023.