Stephen a smith biography
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Stephen A. Smith
American television personality and radio host (born 1967)
For other people named Stephen A. Smith, see Steven Smith (disambiguation).
Stephen Anthony Smith (born October 14, 1967),[1][2][3] also known as SAS, is an American sports television personality, sports radio host, and sports journalist. He makes frequent appearances as an NBA analyst for ESPN on SportsCenter, NBA Countdown, and the network's NBA broadcasts. He has also hosted The Stephen A. Smith Show on ESPN Radio and is a commentator on ESPN's First Take, where he appears with Molly Qerim. Smith is a featured columnist for ESPN and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Early life and education
Stephen Anthony Smith was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He was raised in the Hollis section of Queens.[4] Smith is the youngest of six children.[2][5] He has four older sisters and had an older brother, Basil, who died in a ca
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Stephen A. Smith
Biography of Stephen A. Smith
Stephen A. Smith rose from a reporter on high school sports at the Daily News (New York) and college and NBA beat reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer to become the face of ESPN and its most important on-air personality. He is the star of the #1 morning sports talk show First Take; a premiere analyst on ESPN and ABC’s NBA Countdown; the host of NBA in Stephen A’s World on ESPN2 and ESPN+; and the host and producer of the podcast K[no]w Mercy with Stephen A. Smith. Smith has more than 12 million followers across social media platforms, and his opinions on sports make daily headlines.
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1 Book by Stephen A. Smith
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An evening, and a lesson in life, with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith
Stephen A. Smith has built a life, and a very well-known name, covering and opining on sports, from an early career as a print reporter to his current work with ESPN, where he’s known the world over for his smart, entertaining, sometimes quarrelsome views, especially on the morning show, “First Take.”
So naturally, when he came to Rowan University March 20 for a special program, “An Evening with Stephen A. Smith,” the hundreds of fans förpackning Pfleeger Concert Hall might have expected the type of smart, entertaining, sometimes quarrelsome individual that many of them know from TV.
What they got was a lesson in life.
Smith, who came to campus at the behest of his longtime friend and fellow former Philadelphia journalist Neil Hartman, senior director of Rowan’s Center for Sports Communication & Social Impact, did, of course, talk sports, to an extent, because on camera or off, h