Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University: Sportswriter & Commentator
J.A. Adande Biography
J.A. Adande is associate professor emeritus at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
He is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, winning the Curt Gowdy Print Media Award in 2024.
Adande has worked in sports media for over two and a half decades, including multiple roles at ESPN and 10 years as a sports columnist at the Los Angeles Times, in addition to jobs at The Washington Post and Chicago Sun-Times. He has covered a broad array of sports and events, including 20 NBA Finals, Super Bowls, the World Series, the Stanley Cup finals, the Olympics, the World Cup, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Masters. He continues to appear on ESPN’s “Around The Horn,” where he has been a panelist since the show’s beginning in 2002.
Adande earned his undergraduate degree in journalism from Medill in 1992. During his time in school at Northwestern, he was sports editor of The Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper.
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