John Anderson

SportsCenter Anchor

John Anderson joined ESPN in June 1999 as an ESPNEWS anchor and now anchors SportsCenter, ESPN’s flagship sports news program.  He works the 11 p.m. one-hour edition.  SportsCenter earned Emmy Awards in 2004 and 2005 in the daily studio show category.

Anderson came to ESPN from KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Ariz. where he was a weekend sports anchor from 1996 to 1999.  Prior to KPHO, Anderson was a sports reporter and weekend sports anchor at KOTV in Tulsa, Okla. (1990 to 1996).  He was also a sports photographer and reporter at Tulsa’s KTUL-TV from 1988 to 1990.

Anderson was graduated from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism with a bachelor’s degree in 1987.  He was a four-year member of the men’s track team, competing in high jump, and captained the squad his senior season.   Upon graduation, he began his broadcasting career at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo. 

Anderson, a native of Green Bay, Wis., won the Outstanding Sports Feature Reporting Award, presented by the Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, in 1994 and 1995; in 1997, he received the Associated Press Television Award in Arizona for outstanding performance in broadcast journalism.  In 2003, he co-wrote a book with golfer Chi Chi Rodriquez, Chi Chi’s Golf Games You Gotta Play, which teaches players how to play better golf and have fun while playing. 

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