Kevin Negandhi is a current ESPN SportsCenter anchor. He also hosts Baseball Tonight, College Football Live and Outside the Lines on ESPN and is a fill-in Anchor on NFL Live

NFL Live

NFL Live is a National Football League studio show, currently airing Monday through Friday at 4:00 p.m and 12:30 a.m ET on the ESPN cable network. Formerly known as NFL 2Night, the program is the only NFL-related studio program to air during the week...

 and Cold Pizza. He's the first Anchor of Indian-American

Indian American

Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...

 descent to be on a national sports network in American Television history. Kevin joined ESPN in September 2006 and made his debut on ESPNews in October 2006.

Biography

Negandhi graduated from Phoenixville High School in Phoenixville, PA. He received a degree in Communications from Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

 in 1997. While at Temple, he was a reporter on the Philadelphia Inquirer High School Sports Show on Fox. He also worked as a stringer for the USA Today

USA Today

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 covering 6 local colleges for the Gannett News Service. He served as Sports Editor at the Temple News - the school's newspaper, for two years. Kevin was the voice of the Temple Women's basketball team on WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia for three years.

After college, he became the second Indian-American to be a local sports anchor in the country, serving as Sports Anchor and later Sports Director at KTVO-TV in Kirksville, MO from 1998-99.

Kevin joined WWSB-TV in Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. It is south of the Tampa Bay Area and north of Fort Myers...

 in 1999 and served as a Sports Anchor/Reporter for three years. After a year away from TV, he returned to Sarasota and became Sports Director at WWSB-TV from 2004-06. While working in Florida, he won three Associated Press

Associated Press

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awards including “Best Sportscast” in 2004 and 2005 and “Best Breaking Sports News” in 2005.