Rachel Nichols Biography – Rachel Nichols Wiki
Rachel Nichols born Rachel Michele Alexander and also known as Rachel Michele Nichols is a sports journalist who is currently a television host for ESPN, a sports reporter, and an anchor. She is the host of an NBA discussion show known as The Jump; weekdays on ESPN, it covers news and stories from around the league and features a panel of NBA analysts and players. She started her career by being a sports journalist in the 1990s. She first wrote for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel sports page from 1995 to 1996 then from 1996 to 2004 proceeded to cover the NHL’s Washington Capitals for the Washington Post. She became a part of ESPN in 2004, and she became a regular part of SportsCenter, Sunday NFL Countdown, and Monday Night Countdown, as well as a regular on the network’s NFL and NBA coverage. She was also a correspondent for E:60 and worked as the sideline reporter on a number of Monday Night Football broadcasts.
In 2013, she left ESPN for CNN where she started hosting Unguarded with Rachel Nichols in October of 2013. The program then changed from a regular series to an occasional special by October of 2014. Sports Illustrated has titled her “the country’s most impactful and prominent female sports journalist.” The journalist was widely praised for her tough questioning of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in the wake of the Ray Rice scandal and the same for confronting boxer Floyd Mayweather on his history of domestic violence. At that same time, Nichols also worked the sidelines for Turner Sports’ NBA on the TNT program from 2013 to 2016, working both the regular season and playoff games. When she returned to ESPN in 2016, she has co-hosted The Jump. In 2019, she was named host of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC and the NBA Finals on ABC. She also became a recurring guest-host on the podcast Pardon My Take from 2016 till date as well as on the television show Pardon the Interruption.
She has been named one of Esquire’s “Women We Love” and one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “10 Most Powerful Voices in Sports Media”. She was also named to Sports Illustrated’s “Twitter 100” in 2013 and 2014 and to Sports Illustrated “MMQB 100”. She graduated from Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland in 1991 and also graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1995.
In comments still rippling through the network in July 2021, the reporter Rachel Nichols, who is white, said Maria Taylor, who is Black, earned the job to host 2020 N.B.A. finals coverage because ESPN was “feeling pressure” on diversity.
Rachel Nichols Age
She was born on October 18, 1973, in Potomac, Maryland, United States.
Rachel Nichols Husband
She is married to her husband Max Nichols who is a film and music video director and actor, known for Two Night Stand (2014), Day 5 (2016), and Chemistry Lessons. He has been married to Rachel Nichols since May 25, 2001.
Rachel Nichols Children
Together with her husband Max Nichols, they have two children, who are twin daughters.
Rachel Nichols Parents
She was born Rachel Michele Alexander. Details and whereabouts of her parents are not available. However, she also has one older brother and one younger brother.
Rachel Nichols Height
She stands at a height of 1.65 meters tall.
Rachel Nichols Wedding
Together with her husband, they got married and exchanged their vows in a Jewish ceremony in Venice in 2001. They have lived together since then and have two daughters together.
Rachel Nichols Net Worth
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Rachel Nichols Instagram
Her Instagram account is rachel_nichols.
