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Anchor Linda Cohn announced her retirement from ESPN on Monday after 34 years. She hosted more than 5,500 editions of SportsCenter, the most ever, and will be celebrated at the network's Bristol headquarters this week.
tvinsider.comLinda Cohn announced her retirement from ESPN on Monday after 34 years with the network. ESPN reported that Cohn hosted more than 5,500 editions of SportsCenter, the most by any anchor. Cohn began hosting the program in Bristol in 1992.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to anchor the 1 a.m. edition before that show returned to Bristol last year. Since then she has worked on special projects. Over her career she also provided play-by-play for WNBA coverage and appeared in NHL studio shows.
Cohn will be celebrated at ESPN's Bristol headquarters on Friday and will appear on the evening editions of SportsCenter that day. She will also connect with longtime co-host John Buccigross at the NHL draft. Cohn began her career in 1981 in Patchogue, New York, as a news anchor, writer and sports reporter for WALK-AM/FM.
A former college hockey goalie, she was inducted into the National Sports Media Hall of Fame in 2017 and appeared in many This is SportsCenter commercials. "What I'm most proud of is that my career lasted long enough for me to see little girls grow up watching SportsCenter, enter this business and succeed in it," Cohn said in a statement. ESPN president Burke Magnus called Cohn a legend.
"She has brought enthusiasm, personality and her love of sports to our audience for more than 30 years and her contributions to ESPN both in front of and behind the camera would make a very long list," Magnus said.
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Los Angeles TimesLinda Cohn, who anchored more SportsCenter episodes than anyone in network history, will make her final appearance Friday. She joined the show in 1992 and later moved to Los Angeles to anchor its late-night edition.