[22][23] She also has one older brother and one younger brother. In all, four videos were sent anonymously to a Deadspin reporter late Tuesday. [19], Nichols married film and music video director Max Nichols,[20] son of film and stage director Mike Nichols, in a Jewish ceremony in Venice in 2001. [13] Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. [5][12] ESPN host Rachel Nichols was the victim of a sabotage attempt. “As for the substance of the conversation, it is not reflective of our decision-making on staffing assignments for the NBA, which has largely been driven by the circumstances of the pandemic.”. In 2019, she was named host of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC and the NBA Finals on ABC. Michael David Barrett, then 46, was arrested a year later and was ultimately sentenced to more than two years in prison. Nichols was born Rachel Michele Alexander. The program would change from a regular series to an occasional special by October of the subsequent year. The footage appears to be from a video feed streaming out of Nichols’ hotel room there — and she was “clearly unaware” that she was being filmed as she spoke on the phone. “It’s indefensible and an intrusion on Rachel’s privacy,” ESPN told Deadspin. Sources told the outlet that an unidentified ESPN employee started recording the video feed on a phone before sending it out to others at the network. 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Nichols, the 46-year-old host of ESPN’s “The Jump,” was surreptitiously taped in four videos that appeared to be a cellphone recording of a video feed, Deadspin reports. [11] During this same period, Nichols also worked the sidelines for Turner Sports' NBA on TNT program from 2013–2016, working both regular season and playoff games. Says she helped him with his middle at the platform, and … Rachel Michele Nichols (née Alexander, born October 18, 1973) is a sports journalist who is currently a television host for ESPN, a sports reporter, and an anchor. She also became a recurring guest-host on the podcast Pardon My Take (2016–present), as well as on the TV show Pardon the Interruption. Nichols, whose face wasn’t shown on the footage, was talking to an unidentified man about several topics at ESPN, including her career, other staffers and details of the network’s upcoming coverage of the NBA Finals as the league preps its restart at Walt Disney World in Orlando, according to the report. In 2013, she left ESPN for CNN and began hosting Unguarded with Rachel Nichols in October of that year. [3] She joined ESPN in 2004, where she became a regular part of SportsCenter, Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown, as well as a regular on the network's NFL and NBA coverage. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. "[9] Nichols was widely praised for her tough questioning of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in the wake of the Ray Rice scandal[10] and likewise for confronting boxer Floyd Mayweather on his history of domestic violence. She hosts an NBA discussion show called The Jump; weekdays on ESPN, it covers news and stories from around the league and features a panel of NBA analysts and players. This week, four Rachel Nichols videos were anonymously sent to Deadspin about the ESPN host discussing private matters about the channel with an unidentified man.The videos were recorded from the cell phone and Deadspin reported that someone intended for them to 'expose' Nichols as a 'backstabber'.ESPN responded to the videos, unhappy with the invasion on Nichols' privacy. Rachel Nichols responds to Amin Elhassan thanking her for him getting his start at ESPN. In a statement, ESPN said it was “extremely disappointed” by the leak. [8] Sports Illustrated has called Nichols "the country's most impactful and prominent female sports journalist. It’s unclear, however, if any ESPN employee sent the four video segments to Deadspin’s reporter, the outlet said late Wednesday. ESPN NBA analyst Rachel Nichols is sickened by the National Basketball Association’s silence on the passing. 733.3k Followers, 318 Following, 4,815 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Rachel Nichols (@rachel_nichols) [21] Together, they have two children, twin daughters. [4][5] Nichols was also a correspondent for E:60[6] and worked as the sideline reporter on a number of Monday Night Football broadcasts.[7]. The NBA has worked wonders to honor and pay tribute to … The newest member of the Minnesota Timberwolves and No. In 2008, Erin Andrews was secretly recorded by a man as she undressed in hotel rooms in Nashville and Milwaukee. She hosts an NBA discussion show called The Jump; weekdays on ESPN, it covers news and stories from around the league and features a panel of NBA analysts and players. Since her return to ESPN in 2016, she has co-hosted The Jump, a daily discussion show she created covering the NBA. Rachel Michele Nichols (née Alexander, born October 18, 1973) is a sports journalist who is currently a television host for ESPN, a sports reporter, and an anchor. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. [2], Nichols began her career as a sports journalist in the 1990s, first writing for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel sports page (1995–1996) before covering the NHL's Washington Capitals for the Washington Post (1996–2004). The videos were sent to Deadspin “as an attempt” to discredit Nichols and portray her as a “back-stabber,” an anonymous source told Deadspin in a text message. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. [16] She was also named to Sports Illustrated's "Twitter 100" in 2013 and 2014[17][18] and to Sports Illustrated "MMQB 100".