 Rich Eisen joined ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor/reporter in March 1996. He anchors Baseball2Day every Sunday on ESPN2, does play-by-play for Major League Baseball on ESPN and ESPN2 and is a co-host of SportsCenter, the network's flagship sports news program. Eisen's responsibilities have included serving as an ESPNEWS anchor, and as host of Baseball Tonight, RPM 2Night, and the pre- and post-ESPY Awards show. He also has been a fill-in host for the Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN Radio. Prior to joining the network, Eisen worked at KRCR-TV in Redding, Calif., as a sports anchor/reporter (1994-96). In addition to his work at KRCR, he also worked in television as the Medill News Service's Washington correspondent (1994) and as a production assistant for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Connie Chung (1994). Eisen has also worked in print journalism as a staff writer for the Staten Island Advance (1990-93) and as a stringer covering Chicago public high school football and basketball for the Chicago Tribune (1993-94). Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 24, 1969, and raised in Staten Island, Eisen graduated in 1990 from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and in 1994 from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a Master of Science degree in broadcast journalism.
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