Christine Brennan
Journalist
Christine Brennan - USA Today sports columnist,
author of the best-selling
figure skating books Inside Edge and
Edge of Glory and
television sports analyst - is a leading voice on
the Olympics,
international sports, women's sports and other
sports issues. Brennan,
a staff writer at The Washington Post from 1984-96,
was an on-air commentator
for ABC News and ESPN television during the 2002
Winter Olympics in Salt
Lake City, breaking the news of the pairs figure
skating scandal at the
Games. She also worked for ABC News during the 1996
Summer Games in Atlanta,
the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano and the 2000 Summer
Olympics in Sydney.
Brennan has appeared on a variety of network and
cable shows over the
past decade, including ESPN's SportsCenter,
Nightline, Good Morning America,
World News Tonight and NBC's Today show. A
commentator on National Public
Radio's Morning Edition, Brennan appears regularly
on ESPN Radio and WMAL
Radio in Washington, D.C. Her sports commentaries
appear on-line at usatoday.com.
Brennan, who joined USA Today as a columnist in
1997, became the first
woman to cover the Washington Redskins in 1985 as a
staff writer at The
Washington Post. At the Post, she covered the
Olympics and international
sports, reporting from many nations, including Cuba
and the former Soviet
Union. Brennan has covered every Olympics since the
1984 Los Angeles Games.
Prior to joining the Post, Brennan was the first
woman sports writer at
The Miami Herald, where she worked from
1981-84. The author of
four books, Brennan has won the Women's Sports
Foundation's journalism
award four times, and her work has been featured in
various sports anthologies.
Her 1998 book Edge of Glory won an Ohioana
Library Association
book award. In 1993, she was named the Capital Press
Women's "Woman
of Achievement." She recently was named one of the
top 10 sports
columnists in the category of the nation's largest
newspapers by the Associated
Press Sports Editors for 2001.
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Brennan was inducted
into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1995. She
graduated from Ottawa
Hills High School in 1976. In 1988, Brennan was
elected the first president
of the Association for Women in Sports Media. As
president of the nationwide
organization, she initiated a scholarship-internship
program for college-age
women that now honors six students annually. Brennan
received undergraduate
and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern
University in 1980
and 1981, respectively. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Series
Books:Best Seat in the House, May 2006
Hardcover
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