Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator for CNN, ABC News, PBS NewsHour, and National Public Radio, a best-selling author, and a nationally-known speaker. Named one of the country’s top 10 sports columnists multiple times by the Associated Press Sports Editors, she has covered the last 21 Olympic Games, summer and winter going on 22 after Milan in February 2026

Brennan was the first woman sports writer at The Miami Herald in 1981 and the first woman to cover Washington’s NFL team as a staff writer at The Washington Post in 1985. She was the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) and started a scholarship-internship program that has supported nearly 200 female students over the past two decades.

Brennan is the author of eight books. Her 2006 sports memoir, Best Seat in the House, is the only father-daughter memoir written by a sports journalist. Her 1996 national best-seller, Inside Edge, was named one of the top 100 sports books of all-time by Sports Illustrated. Her latest books is: ON HER GAME: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports

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