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Happy Birthday ESPN! Linda Cohn and Hannah Storm Reflect on the Worldwide Leader’s Impact on Women’s Sports
As ESPN marks its 45th anniversary, long-serving anchors Linda Cohn and Hannah Storm reflect on the Worldwide Leader's impact on women's sports.
In the late 1980s, when future “SportsCenter” legend Linda Cohn wanted to move up the ladder in her career from Long Island cable news, she made a big batch of chocolate chip cookies one day for her camera operator. There were no baked goods involved when Cohn moved back across the country in 1992 to join ESPN and the formidable bench of anchors who front its flagship news program “SportsCenter.” Storm joined ESPN in 2008 after working for NBC Sports and CNN and doing a turn as a morning TV anchor on CBS’ “The Early Show.” She was the first play-by-play announcer for the WNBA when the league launched in 1997.
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