John Anderson is a sports journalist

Journalist

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 from Green Bay

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...

, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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, and a host of the ESPN

ESPN

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 TV program SportsCenter

SportsCenter

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 since June 1999. He lives in Southington

Southington, Connecticut

Southington is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of Connecticut's 1st congressional district. It is situated about 20 miles southwest of Hartford, about 80 miles northeast of New York City, 105 miles southwest of Boston and 77 miles west of Providence...

, Connecticut

Connecticut

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Biography

Anderson graduated from Green Bay Southwest High School

Green Bay Southwest High School

Green Bay Southwest High School is one of four public high schools located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, at 1331 Packerland Drive. The School has 118 faculty and 1427 students in grades 9 through 12...

 in Green Bay, WI. His portrait is displayed outside the gym under the sign "Distinguished Alumni" (there are no other portraits but his). Anderson has a journalism

Journalism

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 degree from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

. He is active within the MU Alumni Association and can often be seen at Missouri Tigers

Missouri Tigers

The Missouri Tigers athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of the University of Missouri, located in Columbia, Missouri, United States...

 sporting events. Anderson was the Grand Marshall at Missouri's 2002 Homecoming football game, in which Missouri beat the University of Kansas

University of Kansas

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. He was the Graduation Speaker at the School of Journalism's December 2007 graduation ceremony.

One of the reasons Anderson decided to attend Missouri was so that he could compete as a high jumper on the track and field

Track and field

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 team. As a student, Anderson worked at KOMU-TV

KOMU-TV

KOMU-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri licensed to Columbia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter at studios on US 63 southeast of downtown. The station can also be seen on Mediacom, Suddenlink, and Charter channel 7 as well...

, but any work on the sports desk was voluntary. After graduating, he spent time in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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, working for KTUL-TV and KOTV-TV, and he also worked in Phoenix

Phoenix, Arizona

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 at KPHO-TV before joining ESPN.

Since 2008, he and John Henson

John Henson

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 have co-hosted Wipeout, a reality game show that is in its fourth season on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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Anderson is an avid fan of Wisconsin sports teams, especially the Milwaukee Brewers

Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

, and usually voices some measure of support for them when handling their highlights.