ESPN anchor Linda Cohn has announced she is taking on a huge new career venture.
The long-serving SportsCenter host faces a hectic schedule as she juggles her new role with ESPN.
ESPN host Linda Cohn has taken on a new career venture[/caption]
Linda Cohn currently hosts the 1am ET edition of SportsCenter on ESPN[/caption]
Cohn, 64, has been at ESPN for more than 30 years having joined in 1992.
She is the longest-tenured anchor on SportsCenter and celebrated 5,000 shows in 2016.
And the Hall of Fame host announced she is returning to where her career started back in 1989.
Cohn worked in Seattle for CBS affiliate KIRO-TV as a sports anchor and reporter.
She is now taking up a role with the Kraken Hockey Network to work on NHL games for the Seattle Kraken.
The broadcasting icon will work as a studio anchor for around 15 games in this upcoming season, the Seattle Times reported.
She will juggle that new assignment with her full-time job at ESPN.
That means a hectic schedule going back and forth between Los Angeles and Seattle.
Cohn currently hosts the 1am ET edition of SportsCenter that originates from ESPN’s Los Angeles studio.
She wrote on Instagram, “So excited to be joining the incredible broadcast team of the Seattle Kraken.
“The Emerald City has always held a place in my heart.
“My daughter Sammy was born there plus my big break in sports came at Seattle’s KIRO-TV where I worked for close to three years before ESPN hired me.
“I’ll still be hosting the late night SportsCenter from LA on ESPN but this was an opportunity, even on a part-time basis, was too good to pass up for me.”
In an interview with the Seattle Times, Cohn revealed her love for hockey as a child.
‘I was fascinated by being a goalie’
Linda Cohn played hockey as a child and revealed her love for the game in a recent interview with the Seattle Times.
“I didn’t get contacts until I was 14 years old, which is when I started playing ice hockey,” she said.
“”But I was really a shy girl, low self-esteem.
“I was fascinated that at this one position, being a goalie, you could be a hero and no one would even notice you.
“But if you made that big save in a one-goal game and you win 4-3, everybody loves you. I was like, ‘I want to be that.’”
She played the sport as a child as a way “to get closer” to her dad, who was an avid fan.
“I grew up with thick glasses,” she said.
“I didn’t get contacts until I was 14 years old, which is when I started playing ice hockey.
“But I was really a shy girl, low self-esteem.
“I was fascinated that at this one position, being a goalie, you could be a hero and no one would even notice you.
“But if you made that big save in a one-goal game and you win 4-3, everybody loves you. I was like, ‘I want to be that.’”
