Linda Cohn Biography
Linda Cohn is an American sportscaster who anchors ESPN’s SportsCenter. She is ESPN’s longest-serving SportsCenter anchor, having anchored her 5,000th SportsCenter in early 2016, the most of any anchor in ESPN history.
Linda Cohn Age
Cohn is 62 years old as of 2021. He was born on 10 November 1959 in Long Island, New York, United States.
Linda Cohn Height
Cohn stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches(1.65m).
Linda Cohn Family
Cohn grew up watching sports on TV with her father, who is an avid sports lover. Her mother discovered a hockey league where she could play alongside boys when she was 15, even though the boys were just eight or nine years old. Cohn excelled as a goaltender in ice hockey as a youngster, making her high school’s boys team.
Linda Cohn Wife
Cohn’s long-term marriage to Stew Kaufman ended in 2008, and the couple divorced. In the early to mid-2010s, Cohn dated minor league hockey goalie coach Matt Voity for several years. Cohn was recognized as one of the top 25 most powerful women in sports in 2014.
Cohn is Jewish, and his daughter Sammy is her name. The New York Giants, New York Mets, New York Knicks, and New York Rangers are among her favorite teams.
Linda Cohn Education
Despite the fact that she did not make her high school hockey team as a junior, she did so as a senior. Cohn attended SUNY Oswego after graduating from Newfield High School, where she played goalkeeper for the women’s ice hockey team. In 1981, she earned a bachelor’s degree in arts and communications.
Linda Cohn Salary
Cohn earns an annual salary of $3 million.
Linda Cohn Net Worth
Cohn has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
Linda Cohn ESPN
When ESPN hired Cohn to work on SportsCenter in 1992, she returned to the East Coast. On July 11, 1992, she co-hosted her first SportsCenter with Chris Myers. She has also appeared in several ads for the show This Is SportsCenter. Despite her success, Cohn came close to being fired in 1994 when the network said she wasn’t displaying her passion for athletics on television. She was given six months to improve, and a video coach was hired to assist her.
Cohn developed a name for herself as a prognosticator during the 1997 NCAA basketball tournament, in addition to her profession as a sports journalist. Her ESPN bracket that year correctly predicted Coppin State University’s surprise first-round upset of South Carolina, which remains one of the greatest upsets in tournament history. Cohn signed a contract extension with ESPN in 2005, which included play-by-play duties for WNBA telecasts. Cohn was named as a regular anchor for the new morning block of SportsCenter, which debuted on August 11, 2008, on June 20, 2008. She was supposed to co-anchor the first three hours of the block, from 6 to 9 a.m. ET on weekdays, with Steve Berthiaume. However, ESPN stated a few weeks later that the new SportsCenter morning block will be reduced from nine to six hours.
On February 21, 2016, she anchored the 5,000th episode of SportsCenter, a record for SportsCenter anchors. Cohn continues to host SportsCenter Monday through Friday from 1–3 p.m. ET. She also hosts the “Listen Closely to Linda Cohn” podcast. During her time at ESPN, Cohn has reported, commented, interviewed, written, and called play-by-play. She has co-hosted SportsCenter from Los Angeles with Neil Everett on weekends since 2016. Cohn was suspended by the network after claiming in an April 2017 radio appearance that the network’s left-wing bias had contributed to a drop in subscription
Cohn “struck a new deal to remain with the firm for years to come,” according to an ESPN press release from mid-July 2018. The contract included additional ice hockey coverage as well as continued anchor duties on SportsCenter. Cohn had “hosted more SportsCenter than anyone else” in her 26 years with the network, according to Executive Vice President Norby Williamson. In the Crease on ESPN+ will increase to five evenings a week during the NHL season, and she will provide hockey-related interviews and stories to SportsCenter and other ESPN platforms, according to the agreement.
Linda Cohn Book
Cohn’s memoir, Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, was published in 2008, and it chronicles her love of sports and her experiences working on SportsCenter. It’s a candid account of her ascent to the top of a male-dominated sportscasting industry.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.