Linda Cohn

Linda Cohn is a sportscaster from the United States. She is the host of ESPN’s Sports Centre.

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Biography and Early Life

Cohn grew up watching sports on TV with her father, who is an avid sports enthusiast. 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 goalkeeper in ice hockey as a youngster, joining her high school’s boys team. Despite the fact that she didn’t make her high school hockey team as a junior, she did so as a senior.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Linda Cohn in 2021 and what is her height and weight? Well, Linda Cohn’s age is 61 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 10 November 1959. Though, she is 5′ 5″ in feet and inches and 165 cm in Centimetres tall, she weighs about 125 lbs in Pound and 57 kg in Kilograms. Her eye color is Hazel and hair color is Blonde.

Education

Cohn attended SUNY Oswego after graduating from Newfield High School, where she was the goaltender for the women’s ice hockey team. In 1981, she earned a bachelor’s degree in arts and communications. In the year 2000, Cohn was inducted into the Oswego State Athletics Hall of Fame.

Personal Life: Dating, Boyfriends, Husband, Kids

Cohn’s long-term marriage to Stew Kaufman ended in 2008, with the couple filing for divorce. Cohn was recognized one of the top 25 most powerful women in sports in 2014.

Cohn is a devout follower of Judaism and the father of a daughter called Sammy. The New York Giants, New York Mets, New York Knicks, and New York Rangers are among her favorite teams.

Is Linda Cohn Lesbian?

No, she is not a lesbian.

Professional Career

Cohn began her career in 1981 as a sports anchor for WALK-AM (later WALK-FM) in Patchogue, New York, where she stayed for four years. She served as a sports anchor for four additional New York area radio stations until 1987, including a brief spell as an update person at WFAN in New York City, after leaving that station in 1984.

When Cohn was recruited by ABC in 1987, she created sports casting history by being the first full-time female sports anchor on a national radio network in the United States. From 1987 until 1989, she was the host of WABC TalkRadio. Cohn’s first television break came in 1988, when she was recruited by SportsChannel America, one of ESPN’s main competitors at the time.

She hosted a call-in sports show on a New York radio station in 1989. Cohn worked as a reporter for the SportsChannel America Network before being recruited as a sports anchor at KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington. When ESPN recruited 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’s also been in a number of advertisements for the show’s This is SportsCenter segment. 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 recruited to assist her.

Cohn earned a name for herself as a prognosticator during the 1997 NCAA basketball tournament, in addition to her profession as a sports writer. Her bracket for ESPN that year correctly anticipated Coppin State University’s surprising first-round victory over South Carolina, which remains one of the tournament’s greatest upsets to this day.

Cohn received a contract extension with ESPN in 2005, which included play-by-play duties for WNBA telecasts. ESPN announced on June 20, 2008, that Cohn will be a regular anchor for SportsCenter’s new morning block, which debuted on August 11 of that year. She was supposed to co-anchor the first three hours of the block, from 6 a.m. 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. eastern. 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.

Awards

Linda Cohn has earned a lot of respectable awards during the course of her career. Here are some of them:

1. National Jewish Hall of Fame Induction.
2. Oswego State Athletics Hall of Fame Induction in 2006.
3. Women’s Sports Journalism Award from the Women’s Sports Foundation.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Linda Cohn in 2021

As of 2021, Her journalism career has earned her a net worth of $12 Million.

Some Interesting Facts You Need To Know

• 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.

Linda Cohn is a brilliant and successful woman who has broken numerous barriers in her career ever since she was a child. She has blazed the trail in sports journalism for women and is a role model for many aspiring female sports journalists.