Le Anne Schreiber is a former ESPN

ESPN

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 ombudsman

Ombudsman

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.

Schreiber replaced George Solomon

George Solomon

George Solomon is a former sports editor and columnist at The Washington Post and was the first ombudsman for ESPN.Solomon is a 1963 graduate of the University of Florida. He began working at the Post in 1972. He served as assistant managing editor for sports from 1975 to 2003. From 2003 to his...

 in this position, who had served for twenty-one months as ombudsman. Schreiber had a two-year contract as ombudsman and wrote at least one column a month, with her tenure coming to an end in March 2009.

Prior to her work as the ESPN ombudsman, Schreiber had been a sports editor for The New York Times

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. She has also covered the 1976 Montreal Olympics

1976 Summer Olympics

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 and been editor-in-chief of womenSports

WomenSports magazine

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magazine. She is also a decorated journalist, having won a National Magazine Award

National Magazine Award

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 in 1991.

Schreiber, the author of Midstream: An Intimate Journal of Loss and Discovery, is divorced and lives in rural upstate New York

New York

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. She has a master's degree

Master's degree

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 from Harvard

Harvard University

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 and has been a professor at University at Albany, SUNY

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 and Columbia

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. Her book Light Years was a New York Times 1996 Notable Book of the Year.

Originally from Evanston

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, Illinois

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, she moved to Texas

Texas

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 and received her bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

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 from Rice

Rice University

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in 1967.