Brian Kenny (sportscaster)

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Brian Kenny (born October 18, 1963), currently anchors the 6pm SportsCenter for ESPN. Brian has won a National Sports Emmy for Baseball Tonight, the Sam Taub Award for broadcasting excellence in boxing, and was named Sports Illustrated's Media Personality of the Year in 2005.

Before working for ESPN, he worked for WTZA in Kingston, New York. Brian also hosts ESPN2's Friday Night Fights and the ESPN Classic series The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame..., which debuted in 2005. In 2005, he hosted a brand-new special series called Ringside. It runs 3-6 hours long an episode and it featured on each episode one great boxer. Among the boxers that were spotlighted on the show were Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson.

Brian has a BFA in Communication Arts, attending New York Institute of Technology and St. John's University (New York City).

Kenny appears as himself on SportsCenter in the 2006 film Rocky Balboa.

He is married with 5 children. His oldest daughter, Alexandra, is a professional ballerina in the Columbia City Ballet (South Carolina).

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