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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sage_Steele_ESPNWeekend2010-072_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Sage_Steele_ESPNWeekend2010-072_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Sage_Steele_ESPNWeekend2010-072_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Sage_Steele_ESPNWeekend2010-072_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Sage_Steele_ESPNWeekend2010-072_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Sage_Steele_ESPNWeekend2010-072_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Sage_Steele_ESPNWeekend2010-072_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="1697" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Steele in 2010</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Sage Marie Steele</div><br /><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1972-11-28</span>) </span>November 28, 1972<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 51)</span></span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" title="Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indiana_University,_Bloomington" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana University, Bloomington">Indiana University, Bloomington</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">BS</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Sportscaster</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1995–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">Notable credit(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data">ESPN, <i><a href="/wiki/SportsCenter" title="SportsCenter">SportsCenter</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data title">Host, reporter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Jonathan Bailey</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1999; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2019)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sage Marie Steele</b> (born November 28, 1972) is an American <a href="/wiki/Television_anchor" class="mw-redirect" title="Television anchor">television anchor</a> who is the former co-host of the 12 noon (ET) <i><a href="/wiki/SportsCenter" title="SportsCenter">SportsCenter</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>. She also hosted SportsCenter on the Road from various sporting events such as the Super Bowl and The Masters, and <i><a href="/wiki/NBA_Countdown" title="NBA Countdown">NBA Countdown</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> for four seasons, ending in 2017. For five years prior to the NBA assignment, Steele was a full-time host of <i><a href="/wiki/SportsCenter" title="SportsCenter">SportsCenter</a></i>, ESPN's flagship show, and had previously contributed to <i><a href="/wiki/ESPN_First_Take" class="mw-redirect" title="ESPN First Take">ESPN First Take</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mike_%26_Mike_in_the_Morning" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike & Mike in the Morning">Mike & Mike in the Morning</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/SportsNation_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="SportsNation (TV series)">SportsNation</a></i>. Steele hosted <i>SportsCenter</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s daytime coverage of the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> in <a href="/wiki/2012_NBA_Finals" title="2012 NBA Finals">2012</a> and <a href="/wiki/2013_NBA_Finals" title="2013 NBA Finals">2013</a>, and covered every NBA Finals from 2012 to 2020. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sage_Steele&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Steele is the daughter of Gary and Mona (O'Neil) Steele. Her father is African-American and her mother is of Irish-Italian descent. Gary Steele became the first black varsity football player at <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" title="United States Military Academy">West Point</a> during the mid-1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-Nerves_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nerves-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 for his standout career on the <a href="/wiki/Army_Black_Knights_football" title="Army Black Knights football">Black Knights football</a> and track & field teams. He retired from the army as a <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)">colonel</a> after a career of 23 years. <sup id="cite_ref-Augusta032023_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Augusta032023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sage Steele was born in 1972 into an American <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">Army</a> family living in the <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" title="Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Steele has two brothers, Courtney and Chad (senior vice president of media relations for the NFL's <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Ravens" title="Baltimore Ravens">Baltimore Ravens</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The U.S. Army stationed Steele's family in several different states and countries, including <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, before moving back stateside to <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Springs,_Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado">Colorado Springs, Colorado</a>, in 1984 for her seventh grade year. After attending <a href="/wiki/Thomas_B._Doherty_High_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas B. Doherty High School">Thomas B. Doherty High School</a> in Colorado Springs for two years, she moved to <a href="/wiki/Carmel,_Indiana" title="Carmel, Indiana">Carmel, Indiana</a>, and attended <a href="/wiki/Carmel_High_School_(Carmel,_Indiana)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carmel High School (Carmel, Indiana)">Carmel High School</a> as a senior, graduating in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-She_knows_the_score_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-She_knows_the_score-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She graduated from <a href="/wiki/Indiana_University_Bloomington" title="Indiana University Bloomington">Indiana University Bloomington</a> in 1995 with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">Bachelor of Science</a> degree in sports communication. Exactly 20 years later, she was the commencement speaker at the 2015 Indiana University undergraduate commencement, which she considers the greatest honor of her career.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Broadcasting_career">Broadcasting career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sage_Steele&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Broadcasting career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Steele's first television sports reporting job was at <a href="/wiki/WSBT-TV" title="WSBT-TV">WSBT-TV</a>, the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> affiliate in <a href="/wiki/South_Bend,_Indiana" title="South Bend, Indiana">South Bend, Indiana</a>, as a news producer and reporter from 1995 to 1997. </p><p>From there, Steele moved to <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> affiliate <a href="/wiki/WISH-TV" title="WISH-TV">WISH-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis,_Indiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Indianapolis, Indiana">Indianapolis, Indiana</a>. From 1997 to 1998 she worked as the weekend morning sports anchor and weekday reporter. Her reporting duties included the <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_Colts" title="Indianapolis Colts">Indianapolis Colts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_500" title="Indianapolis 500">Indianapolis 500</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brickyard_400" title="Brickyard 400">Brickyard 400</a> auto races, and local college and high school sports. </p><p>Steele's next stop was the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> affiliate <a href="/wiki/WFTS" class="mw-redirect" title="WFTS">WFTS</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida">Tampa, Florida</a>, from 1998 to 2001, where she was a sports reporter with former <a href="/wiki/WFTS" class="mw-redirect" title="WFTS">WFTS</a> sports director and former <i><a href="/wiki/SportsCenter" title="SportsCenter">SportsCenter</a></i> host <a href="/wiki/Jay_Crawford" title="Jay Crawford">Jay Crawford</a> and current "<a href="/wiki/NFL_RedZone" title="NFL RedZone">NFL RedZone</a>" host <a href="/wiki/Scott_Hanson" title="Scott Hanson">Scott Hanson</a>. She also worked at <a href="/wiki/Fox_Sports_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox Sports Florida">Fox Sports Florida</a> as a reporter, continuing to cover teams throughout Central Florida such as the <a href="/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers" title="Tampa Bay Buccaneers">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Magic" title="Orlando Magic">Orlando Magic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Lightning" title="Tampa Bay Lightning">Tampa Bay Lightning</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Florida_Bulls" title="South Florida Bulls">South Florida Bulls</a>. </p><p>In 2001, Steele joined <a href="/wiki/Comcast_SportsNet_Mid-Atlantic" class="mw-redirect" title="Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic">Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bethesda,_Maryland" title="Bethesda, Maryland">Bethesda, Maryland</a>, where she was an anchor and reporter for the network's nightly local sports news program, <i>SportsNite</i>, covering all sports in the Washington, DC/Baltimore region. Steele was one of <a href="/wiki/Comcast_SportsNet" class="mw-redirect" title="Comcast SportsNet">Comcast SportsNet</a>'s original personalities, joining that network when it launched that year. She served six years as a reporter and anchor at CSN Mid-Atlantic (2001–2007), and she was a <a href="/wiki/Beat_reporting" title="Beat reporting">beat reporter</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Ravens" title="Baltimore Ravens">Baltimore Ravens</a>. </p><p>In 2007, she joined <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>. She debuted on March 16, 2007, on the 6:00 p.m. ET edition of <i>SportsCenter</i>. In an interview with Awful Announcing, she mentioned that she'd actually been offered a job with the network in 2004, but had turned it down as she was then pregnant with her second child.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 28, 2013, she drove the pace car for the <a href="/wiki/NASCAR" title="NASCAR">NASCAR</a> <a href="/wiki/Sprint_Cup_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Sprint Cup Series">Sprint Cup Series</a> Brickyard 400. During the pace laps at the beginning of the race, she was bumped in jest by then-<a href="/wiki/List_of_NASCAR_Sprint_Cup_Series_champions" class="mw-redirect" title="List of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions">five-time Sprint Cup champion</a> <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Johnson" title="Jimmie Johnson">Jimmie Johnson</a>. </p><p>Beginning in the <a href="/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_NBA_season" title="2013–14 NBA season">2013–14 NBA season</a>, Steele became the host of <a href="/wiki/NBA_Countdown" title="NBA Countdown">NBA Countdown</a> on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>, a post she held through 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Steele co-hosted the <a href="/wiki/Miss_America" title="Miss America">Miss America</a> 2017 & 2018 pageant on <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> with <a href="/wiki/Chris_Harrison" title="Chris Harrison">Chris Harrison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-return_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-return-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She hosted the <a href="/wiki/Scripps_National_Spelling_Bee" title="Scripps National Spelling Bee">Scripps National Spelling Bee</a> from 2010 to 2013. In 2014 she was a guest host several times on <i><a href="/wiki/The_View_(talk_show)" title="The View (talk show)">The View</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She became the noon (ET) <i>SportsCenter</i> co-anchor with <a href="/wiki/Matt_Barrie_(sportscaster)" title="Matt Barrie (sportscaster)">Matt Barrie</a> in February 2021. She had anchored the 6 p.m. ET edition of the show for several years before moving to noon. Prior to that she had anchored <i>SportsCenter:AM.</i><sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 5, 2021, Steele was suspended with pay by ESPN for remarks she made on <a href="/wiki/Jay_Cutler" title="Jay Cutler">Jay Cutler</a>'s September 29 <a href="/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast">podcast</a> about <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_mandates_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 vaccination mandates in the United States">COVID-19 vaccine mandates</a>, women who dress in a way she feels is provocative, and <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> calling himself black even though he, like Steele, has a white mother.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In conjunction with her suspension, Steele issued an apology: "I know my recent comments created controversy for the company, and I apologize. We are in the midst of an extremely challenging time that impacts all of us, and it's more critical than ever that we communicate constructively and thoughtfully."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Steele filed a lawsuit against ESPN in April 2022, alleging that the network had retaliated against her in the months following the suspension. Steele's suit accused ESPN of taking opportunities away from her and steadily degrading her career, alleging that her free speech rights were being curtailed through ESPN's retaliation against her for comments she had made as a private citizen. The parties settled the lawsuit in August 2023, at which point Steele left the network.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2024, she was named the first <a href="/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast">podcast</a> host on <a href="/wiki/Bill_Maher" title="Bill Maher">Bill Maher</a>'s Club Random Studios podcast network. Maher said, "I am looking for people who are not talking-point people. I'm looking for people who don't, before they speak, say, 'What's the right answer here?'"<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She replaced <a href="/wiki/Candace_Owens" title="Candace Owens">Candace Owens</a> in the animated series <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Birchum" title="Mr. Birchum">Mr. Birchum</a></i> after Owens' departure from <i>The Daily Wire</i>, following "clashes with co-founder <a href="/wiki/Ben_Shapiro" title="Ben Shapiro">Ben Shapiro</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Israel–Hamas war">Israel–Hamas war</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sage_Steele&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Steele married Jonathan Bailey in 1999. Together, they have three children, two daughters and one son. They divorced in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2021, Steele put her home in <a href="/wiki/Avon,_Connecticut" title="Avon, Connecticut">Avon, Connecticut</a>, on the market for $1.6 million,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after doing extensive renovations.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Steele was on the board of the <a href="/wiki/Pat_Tillman_Foundation" title="Pat Tillman Foundation">Pat Tillman Foundation</a>. In 2019 she was named to the board of the <a href="/wiki/V_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="V Foundation">V Foundation</a> for cancer research.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sage_Steele&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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