Andres AgullaA motorsports broadcast veteran, Agulla handles play-by-play for ESPN’s Spanish-language coverage for NASCAR on ESPN Deportes, and also handled play-by-play for ESPN’s Spanish-language coverage of the IndyCar Series and World Rally Championship. He also serves as host on RPM Semanal, ESPN Deportes’ weekly motor sports news and information show. |
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Jack AruteJack Arute has been part of ABC and ESPN’s auto racing coverage since 1984 when he joined ABC for a live telecast of sprint car racing on the Wide World of Sports. The award-winning commentator now works as a pit reporter for ESPN and ABC’s IndyCar Series coverage, including the Indianapolis 500, and fills in on selected NASCAR telecasts. In addition to his auto racing duties, Arute works as a sideline reporter for college football on ESPN and ABC. Full bio... |
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Rich BasileLead director for NASCAR on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC networks - including ESPN and ABC’s 17 Sprint Cup telecasts - the 10-race Chase for the Cup – and all NASCAR Nationwide Series telecasts on ESPN2. Basile served as FOX Sports’ lead technical director on NASCAR and its premier NFL production team for six plus years and directed many of FOX’s NASCAR telecasts while partnered with Neil Goldberg. |
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Allen BestwickAn award-winning NASCAR television and radio broadcaster who has covered thousands of races in nearly 20 years, Allen Bestwick serves as host for ESPN’s NASCAR coverage, including NASCAR Countdown. He also shares the host role of ESPN’s daily NASCAR news program NASCAR Now. Bestwick, who joined ESPN in 2007, first began a national broadcast career in racing on MRN Radio. Since 2001, he has served as lead reporter for NBC and TNT on the networks’ coverage of NASCAR, as well as provided play-by-play coverage of a variety of other sporting events. |
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Terry BlountAn ESPN.com reporter, Terry Blount is an acclaimed and award-winning sports writer with 25 years experience with the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News and Houston Post. Blount began covering auto racing in 1995 at the Chronicle before moving to the News in 2001. He has earned numerous writing honors in his career, including the Citation for Writing Excellence from Hearst Newspapers and the Excellence in Journalism Award from the Houston Press Club. In addition to his writing for ESPN.com, Blount appears on NASCAR Now. Full bio... |
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Jim BowdonAs coordinating producer of ESPN Studio Production, works directly with the production of ESPN’s daily NASCAR New and information program NASCAR Now. Bowdon came to ESPN in 1996 as coordinating producer and has served in that capacity on the overnight and 6 p.m. editions of SportsCenter, RPM2Night and the ESPNEWS Hotlist. He worked at TV stations in Beaumont, Texas, and Fort Wayne, Ind., and for 13 years in Indianapolis, eventually becoming executive news producer, before joining ESPN. |
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Tim BrewerOne of the most successful crew chiefs in NASCAR history with 53 wins, 55 poles and two NASCAR Cup Series championships, Tim Brewer reports from the ESPN DISH Tech Center during ESPN’s NASCAR telecasts and also is an analyst on NASCAR Now and other ESPN studio programs. Brewer started his racing career at the age of 14. In 1973, at the age of 18, he became one of the youngest crew chiefs in NASCAR history when he joined driver Richard Childress. He has worked with three-time NASCAR champions Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip and 1988 NASCAR champion Bill Elliott. As crew chief with Junior Johnson Racing, he led Yarborough to the 1978 NASCAR title and in 1981 Brewer won a second Cup title with Waltrip. Full bio... |
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Dave BurnsA motorsports broadcast veteran who served as a pit reporter on NBC and TNT’s NASCAR coverage from 2002-2006, Burns also is a former member of ESPN’s racing team, having covered the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 1998 and 1999. He rejoined ESPN’s NASCAR team as a pit reporter in 2007. He started his TV career with TNN covering the ASA series. Burns also reports for ESPN’s daily news and information program NASCAR Now. Full bio... |
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Ryan BurrBurr joined ESPN in August 2005 as an ESPNEWS anchor. In April 2007 he was named a host of NASCAR Now, ESPN’s first daily program dedicated to NASCAR news and information. Prior to joining ESPN, Burr worked at FSN in Pittsburgh, Penn. and ABC affiliate WTVG-TV in Toledo, Ohio. Previously he was sports director WKTV-TV in Utica, N.Y. where he received a local AP Broadcaster-of-the-Year award, and at Channel 9 in Tampa, Fla. Full bio... |
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Angelique ChengelisThe lead motorsports writer for the Detroit News for more than 15 years, covering NASCAR, IndyCar and other forms of racing for the newspaper based in the home city of the American auto industry, Angelique Chengelis joined ESPN in 2007 as a NASCAR Insider. Her in-depth racing knowledge has led to multiple appearances as a panelist on ESPN’s Outside the Lines, SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and NASCAR Now. She has earned numerous writing honors in her career, including the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) award for writing excellence in her coverage of Michigan football. Full bio... |
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D. J. CoppD.J. Copp is a rear tire changer on the No. 43 Cheerios Dodge of Petty Enterprises and driver Bobby Labonte. Copp joined ESPN’s NASCAR Now, the network’s first daily program dedicated to NASCAR news and information, in 2007 as an analyst, where he provides inside tips from behind-the-wall and race weekend predictions. |
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Tim CowlishawThe Dallas native has been a national sportswriter for the Dallas Morning News since 1984, and a columnist there since August 1998. Before joining The Dallas Morning News Cowlishaw wrote for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Daily Oklahoman and San Joe Mercury News. In 2002, Cowlishaw placed among the top five sports columnists in the nation among large circulation newspapers by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Full bio... |
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Brad DaughertyA five-time NBA All-Star in eight seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who selected him as the No. 1 pick in the 1986 draft, Brad Daugherty joined ESPN in 2007 as an analyst for NASCAR Now and NASCAR Countdown. A follower of NASCAR since his childhood, his #43 jersey was chosen in honor of Richard Petty. Daugherty also spent time as a winning NASCAR Nationwide Series and Craftsman Truck Series team owner with drivers Robert Pressley, Kenny Irwin Jr. and others. Pressley won a Nationwide Series race in 1989 in a car owned by Daugherty while Irwin won two Truck Series races for Daugherty in 1997. Daugherty previously served as a college basketball game sideline reporter and analyst for ESPN and ABC.Full bio... |
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K. Lee DavisJoined ESPN in 2004, taking over duties as ESPN.com’s motorsports editor in January, 2006. Davis started his career at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1982 and moved on to stops in Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and San Antonio, Texas, before joining ESPN. A Texas native, Davis attended the last Cup race at Texas World Speedway in 1981 and the first Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway in 1997. Davis has won numerous awards and contributed to APSE-winning sections and story packages. |
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Tiffani DavisTiffani M. Davis joined ESPN as a Coordinating Producer of NASCAR Now in February, 2007. Before joining ESPN, Davis worked at ABC News for nearly six years as a producer where she produced breaking news stories and sought high-profile guests for Good Morning America. She has worked in nearly every capacity in television at ABC, CNN, WJLA-TV, BET and the Voice of America. |
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Jed DrakeJoined ESPN in 1980 and was named senior vice president and executive producer for ESPN in 2000. Oversees all remote production efforts totaling more than 6,000 hours per year including NASCAR, NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, X Games, Winter X Games, college basketball and football, World Cup soccer and other properties. Helped build and solidify ESPN's position as a production leader, spearheading innovations including the critically acclaimed "1st and Ten" for football and the "K Zone" for baseball telecasts, both Emmy winners. Full bio... |
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Ray EvernhamNASCAR team owner and three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion crew chief Ray Evernham joined ESPN in 2008 as an analyst NASCAR Now and other ESPN platforms. Evernham is owner of Gillett Evernham Motorsports. Evernham, who raced Modifieds in his native New Jersey, rose to prominence in NASCAR after hanging up his helmet and becoming a crew chief. He won three NASCAR Cup championships and 47 races with Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports in the 1990s, then started his own team to coincide with Dodge’s return to the top level of NASCAR racing in 2001. Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler and Patrick Carpentier now drive for the team’s three-car effort in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The team also participates in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. |
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Rich FeinbergNamed ESPN’s vice president, motorsports, in 2007. Joined ESPN in 1993 and as a coordinating and senior coordinating producer, he and his production teams earned 47 Sports Emmy nominations and 15 awards. He oversees the production of ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC’s comprehensive auto racing lineup including NASCAR, Indy Car, NHRA, the Indianapolis 500 and the networks’ month-long programming surrounding the Indy 500. Feinberg also has been part of the X Games senior production team and senior coordinating producer for the ESPYS. |
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Jill FredericksonJill Frederickson oversees all of ESPN and ESPN on ABC’s motorsports productions, including NASCAR and the IndyCar Series. She was named a coordinating producer in ESPN’s remote production in December 2003 and promoted to senior coordinating producer in April 2008. Full bio... |
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Neil GoldbergSenior motorsports producer for ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC including ESPN and ABC’s 17 Sprint Cup telecasts – the 10-race Chase for the Cup – and NASCAR Nationwide Series telecasts on ESPN2. He began his career working on NASCAR in 1982 with ESPN and served as a producer of ESPN’s NASCAR Winston Cup and other motorsports coverage, which won 17 Sports Emmy Awards and received three CableACE Awards in the live sports series category. In 2001, he joined FOX Sports as the lead race producer for all productions through 2006. |
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Dale JarrettESPN’s booth analyst for NASCAR coverage, Dale Jarrett was the 1999 NASCAR Cup champion and one of the founding drivers of the NASCAR Nationwide Series. The three-time Daytona 500 winner made his television debut in 2007 as an analyst on select ESPN telecasts. Jarrett and his father, Ned – the 1961 and ’65 NASCAR champion who worked for ESPN from 1988 to 2000 as a NASCAR analyst – were just the second father-son combo to win Cup titles. (Lee and Richard Petty were first). The 2008 season is Jarrett’s last as a driver. Full bio... |
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Randy LaJoieRandy LaJoie, a two-time NASCAR Nationwide Series champion, joined ESPN’s NASCAR coverage team in 2007 as an analyst for selected race telecasts. LaJoie, who won the series title in 1996 and 1997, last raced in the NASCAR Busch Series in 2006. He brings his experience of two championships, 15 wins and 347 starts in the series to ESPN’s coverage team. His resume includes stints in the NASCAR Cup Series as well as the 1985 championship of the former NASCAR North Series. Full bio... |
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Jamie LittleLas Vegas resident and ESPN pit reporter Jamie Little is an experienced action sports and motorsports reporter for ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, serving as a pit reporter for ESPN’s broadcast of the IndyCar Series season from 2004-2006. She joined ESPN’s NASCAR team for 2007. Additionally, she continues to serve as a reporter on ESPN’s Winter and Summer X Games. Little’s duties in 2008 also include reporting for NASCAR Now, ESPN’s daily news and information program. Full bio... |
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Nicole ManskeJoined ESPN in January of 2008 as host of NASCAR Now, ESPN’s daily NASCAR news and information show. In addition to hosting, she also does reports for the program from the field. Manske joined ESPN after two years as host of a motorsports news program on the SPEED Channel. Previously, she was a TV sports reporter in Indianapolis and worked as a pit reporter for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network on the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400. She started her TV career in Rockford, Ill., while still in college and was a news reporter in Ft. Wayne, Ind., before moving to Indianapolis. |
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Mike MassaroAn award-winning reporter for NASCAR who joined ESPN in 2001, Massaro serves as a pit reporter for ESPN’s NASCAR racing coverage. Additionally, Massaro covers motorsports for NASCAR Now, SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, ESPNEWS, and ESPN Radio. He also was a reporter for ESPN2’s daily motorsports news program RPM2Night (2001-02). He started his racing career as PR director for a Connecticut short track and then reported for MRN Radio from 1997-2000. He also was a reporter for Inside NASCAR on TNN. Full bio... |
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Dave NewtonAn award-winning NASCAR writer, Newton joined ESPN.com’s motorsports team in 2007 after a year writing for NASCAR.com. He previously covered NASCAR and the Carolina Panthers for South Carolina's largest newspaper, The State, in Columbia. He has also served as a correspondent for Sports Illustrated, covered seven Super Bowls, dozens of college bowl games and every major race on the NASCAR circuit. He has won numerous state and national press association awards including second-place national honors from Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and the award for excellence in news reporting from the South Carolina State Press Association. Full bio... |
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Jack ObringerSenior coordinating producer, studio production, who oversees production of NASCAR Now. Previously responsible for 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. ET editions of SportsCenter, as well as NBA FastBreak, NBA Coast to Coast and NASCAR coverage on SportsCenter. Also previously a coordinating producer for the 6 p.m. SportsCenter, Monday Night Countdown and ESPNEWS. Prior to joining ESPN, Obringer worked at WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind., for 16 years, ultimately as assistant news director. |
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Pat PattersonESPN Radio’s Saturday RaceDay host Patterson, also known as "The Racing Guy," has been involved in motorsports for more than 25 years. He hosted and produced television shows RaceDay on TNN and the nationally syndicated On Pit Road, and was a pit reporter for ESPN, WTBS and SETN in the 1980s and early 1990s. His radio experience includes more than 20 years of calling the action on pit road for the Performance Racing Network (PRN). Patterson was named "Sprint Car Media Person of the Year" (1992, 93, 94), received the Specialty Promotions Award from Open Wheel/Stock car Racing Magazine (1993), and was elected to the Automotive Hall of Fame Board of Directors in 1997. Full bio... |
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Andy PetreeA NASCAR veteran whose career includes being a driver, car owner and two-time NASCAR Cup-winning crew chief for the late Dale Earnhardt. Petree joined Richard Childress Racing as the crew chief for the famous #3 Goodwrench Chevy and won back-to-back NASCAR championships in 1993 and ‘94. He led Harry Gant to four straight NASCAR Cup wins during the 1991 season. As a driver, Petree raced on a part-time basis from 1988 to 2004. As a car owner, Petree worked with Kenny Wallace, Joe Nemecheck, Bobby Hamilton and Greg Biffle. He joined ESPN in 2007 as a NASCAR racing analyst. Full bio... |
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Alex PomboA former driver, Pombo joined ESPN Deportes in 2005 and handles Spanish-language analysis for NASCAR, IndyCar Series and World Rally Championship alongside Andres Agulla. He also serves as an analyst for RPM Semanal. |
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Dr. Jerry PunchNamed ESPN’s lead announcer for NASCAR coverage prior to the start of the 2007 season, Dr. Jerry Punch has been associated with ESPN since the mid-1980s. A former emergency room physician, he received his medical degree from Wake Forest University in 1979 and was the director of emergency room services at a Florida hospital for 14 years, serving two terms as chief of staff. Punch became a track announcer at Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina as a teenager and became a garage/pit reporter for MRN Radio in 1980. He became a reporter for ESPN in the mid-1980s while continuing his medical practice. In addition to NASCAR work, Punch covered the Indianapolis 500 for ESPN and ABC for 18 years, and has done extensive college football and basketball work as both a sideline reporter and play-by-play announcer. Full bio... |
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Marty ReidThe lead announcer for selected NASCAR events on ESPN, Marty Reid has been a commentator for a wide variety of ESPN auto racing telecasts since 1982. He became the anchor for ESPN’s coverage of the IndyCar Series in 2006 after being the lead announcer for ESPN’s NHRA drag racing coverage prior to that. He has won several awards for his sports coverage, including two UPI awards for best sports story, an AP award for best sports coverage and one regional Emmy. Full bio... |
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Boris SaidBoris Said, of Carlsbad, Calif., a successful road racing driver for many years, and a part-time competitor on the NASCAR Cup Series since 1999, added the role of analyst to his resume in 2007, bringing years of racing experience to NASCAR Now on ESPN2. Said has driven for top NASCAR teams in road course events on the series’ schedule many times and in the past two seasons has expanded his NASCAR schedule to include oval tracks. In 2006 he shocked NASCAR regulars by winning the pole for the Pepsi 400 at Daytona, ultimately finishing fourth in the race. Full bio... |
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James ShiftanProducer for the NASCAR Nationwide Series for ESPN, as well as pit producer for NASCAR Sprint Cup telecasts. Shiftan has more than 12 years of motorsports production experience starting with ESPN's RPM2Night, and was part of ESPN's remote production team that earned several Sports Emmy nominations for its work on ESPN’s Speedworld for live production of NASCAR. In 2000 Shiftan became a producer on NASCAR on NBC and TNT. In 2006 he rejoined ESPN as the producer for the IndyCar Series on ESPN. |
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Marty SmithAn Insider for ESPN’s coverage of NASCAR, Smith reports for ESPN2’s NASCAR Now as well as SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN.com. A former senior writer for NASCAR.com, Smith’s vibrant and energetic personality made him a regular contributor on SPEED News, ESPNEWS and Cold Pizza. Smith wrote for newspapers in Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va., then moved to a position with NASCAR in Charlotte, N.C., before joining NASCAR.com. Smith is one of the sport’s most well-respected writers and his contacts inside the NASCAR garage have led to many breaking stories. Full bio... |
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Shannon SpakeShannon Spake’s role with ESPN’s race coverage expanded in 2008 as she became a fulltime pit reporter for both the NASCAR Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series telecasts. In 2007, she was a pit reporter on selected races and worked fulltime as a reporter for ESPN’s studio programs such as NASCAR Now, SportsCenter and ESPNEWS. She also worked as a sideline reporter for ESPN Radio’s college football bowl game coverage. Before joining ESPN, she reported for SPEED Channel’s NASCAR Nation and hosted Backseat Drivers. Spake also shared the excitement of NASCAR Champion’s Week with viewers when she co-hosted a 2005 special from New York City. In 2006, Spake was a pit reporter for the All-American Soap Box Derby Championships presented by Levi Strauss Signature on ESPN. Full bio... |
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Rusty WallaceThe 1989 NASCAR champion, whose 25-year career included 55 Cup wins, Wallace serves as an analyst for ESPN’s NASCAR coverage, appearing on NASCAR Countdown and across multiple ESPN platforms. His dynamic personality and knowledge of racing led to a successful debut in ESPN and ABC’s IndyCar Series booth in 2006, including the Indianapolis 500. Additionally, Wallace has served as a NASCAR analyst for SportsCenter on ESPN. Wallace ranks as one of the top-five money winners in NASCAR history, with nearly $50 million in career winnings.Full bio... |
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Vince WelchIndianapolis native Vince Welch returned to the ESPN team covering the IndyCar Series in 2007 as a pit reporter, and has been involved with coverage of the series, on both TV and radio, since its formation in 1996. Welch also works select NASCAR telecasts for the networks. In addition to his motorsports duties for ABC and ESPN, Welch also has worked as a college football sideline reporter for the networks since 2004. Welch was formerly sports director for WIBC Radio in Indianapolis and has been in broadcasting for more than 20 years. Welch is the play-by-play voice for the Ball State University Sports Network, which broadcasts BSU basketball throughout the Midwest. |
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