J. A. Adande

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J. A. Adande
Born (1970-10-25) October 25, 1970 (age 51)
Los Angeles, California, U.S
Alma materNorthwestern University
EmployerNorthwestern University
TitleDirector of Sports Journalism

Joshua Ade Adande (/əˈdɑːndeɪ/; born October 25, 1970) is an American sportswriter, commentator and educator, who currently serves as the Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University. He was a regular panelist on ESPN's Around The Horn, starting in 2007, and after a period away, returned as a panelist in January 2018. He was formerly an American sports columnist and sideline reporter who covered the National Basketball Association for ESPN, and was also a regular guest host on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption television shows.[1] Adande is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism.[2][3]

Career[]

Adande began his career as a sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

Adande joined ESPN.com as an NBA columnist in August 2007. The panel at Around the Horn all congratulated him on the job and played a joke "Buy or Sell" segment about Adande's comments about joining ESPN. He was an NBA analyst on SportsCenter.[4]

Adande announced via Twitter in August 2017 that he was relocating to Chicago and becoming director of the new sports journalism program at Northwestern University, as well as a faculty member of the Medill School of Journalism.[5]

During his time at ESPN, Adande covered the Olympic Games, Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, and the NBA Finals.[6]

During the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, when the subject of China's treatment of Uyghurs was brought up on the ESPN series Around the Horn, Adande made a controversial statement that the US had no moral ground to complain about what is happening to the Uyghurs due to voter suppression by Republicans.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Personal life[]

He was born in Los Angeles, the son of Desire and Elizabeth (Oberstein) Adande.[13] His grandfather, Gerson "Gus" Oberstein (1914-2003), was a violinist who had played with jazzmen Joe Roland and Charlie Parker, and later with the .[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "J.A. Adande leaving ESPN". SI.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  2. ^ [1][dead link]
  3. ^ "USC School of Journalism - Adjunct Faculty" Archived 2009-11-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2009-10-28.
  4. ^ J.A. Adande, ESPNLosAngeles.com, January 25, 2010
  5. ^ J.A. Adande leaves ESPN after a decade for Northwestern Chicago Tribune, 8-10-17
  6. ^ "ESPN.com: EOE". Espn.com. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  7. ^ "ESPN Regular Says U.S. Has No Room to Criticize China Doing Genocide Because of Election Legislation". Mediaite.com. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  8. ^ Fine, Melissa (5 February 2022). "ESPN guest downplays China's human rights violations because USA has 'assaults' on voting rights". Bizpacreview.com. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  9. ^ "ESPN contributor compares GOP-led voter laws to Chinese genocide". Washington Examiner. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  10. ^ [2][dead link]
  11. ^ "ESPN panelist: How can we judge China's genocide when voting rights here are under assault?". Hotair.com. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  12. ^ "ESPN Guy Says China's Genocide is No Worse Than Red States Requiring Voter ID". OutKick.com. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Person Details for Adetokum J Adande, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"". Familysearch.org.
  14. ^ "OBERSTEIN, Gerson". SFGate. 17 August 2003.

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