Jay Harris, ESPN SportsCenter Anchor
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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Jay Harris is a SportsCenter anchor at ESPN who has been featured on the signature show since arriving in Bristol, CT in February of 2003.
Prior to his arrival at ESPN, Harris worked as a news anchor and reporter in Pittsburgh with WPGH-TV. He also worked at WAMO-FM in Pittsburgh and WOWI-FM in Norfolk, VA.
Harris is a graduate of Old Dominion University and in 2004, was the keynote speaker for Old Dominion's 100th commencement ceremony.
Jay has been a part of SportsCenter's Sports Emmy-winning efforts in 2004 and 2005 and is a recipient of the Silver World Medal from the New York Festival Awards.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jay about his journey to ESPN, living the SportsCenter life, when he began his walk with the Lord, using his platform to share his faith and his most memorable interview.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:21.7 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:22.9 | Today's episode is brought to you by Compassion International. |
| 0:25.7 | We're so thankful to have Compassion International as a sponsor as a partner with us here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:34.9 | We're going to be talking about gratitude in this interview, this podcast |
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| 1:29.9 | Today on the podcast, we welcome Jay Harris to the show. Jay is a sports center anchor at ESPN. |
| 1:37.8 | He's been there since 2003, 16 years now. Prior to that, worked in Pittsburgh at WPGH TV. Jay went to high school in Chapel Hill, |
| 1:49.2 | North Carolina, went to college at Old Dominion, a proud O'DU alum. And Jay lives five minutes from my |
| 1:56.0 | house here in Bristol, Connecticut. And this was a neat opportunity for me to talk with someone on the |
| 2:02.6 | podcast. That's a friend, someone that I've known a long time, someone that I've done life with, |
| 2:08.4 | someone whose kids are friends with my kids, and just a really cool opportunity to go beneath |
| 2:17.0 | the surface a little bit with Jay. Certainly we share ESPN stories, |
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