Hannah Storm

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Hannah Storm

Hannah Storm (born Hannah Storen on June 13, 1962) is co-host of CBS' The Early Show.

Hannah is the daughter of sports executive Mike Storen, who was a commissioner of the old American Basketball Assocation, and also president of the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA.

She graduated from Westminster Schools of Atlanta in 1979 and the University of Notre Dame in 1983, with degrees in political science and communications.

She took her professional surname during her stint as a disc jockey for a hard rock radio station in Houston, Texas in the mid-1980s. At the time, the station was known as 97 Rock/KSRR (for "Kick Ass Rock and Roll").

While at Notre Dame, she worked for WNDU-TV, the Notre Dame-owned NBC affiliate in South Bend, Indiana. After graduating college, she took a job as a disc jockey at a radio station in Corpus Christi Texas. Six months later, she got a job at a Houston rock station doing part-time sports work. Storm stayed in Houston for four years doing a variety of radio and television jobs, including hosting the Houston Rockets halftime and postgame shows on television.

After a brief stint in Charlotte at WPCQ in Charlotte (now WCNC) as a sports anchor and reporter, she moved over to CNN in 1989 and was now in front of a national audience. She stayed there for three years, and was one of the group of rotating co-anchors for "CNN Sports Tonight." During her stint at CNN, she met fellow sportscaster Dan Hicks, whom she later married in 1994 and with whom she has three daughters.

In 1992, Storm left CNN and was hired by NBC. She has worked four Olympic Games, as well as NBA and WNBA basketball, NFL football, figure skating, and MLB baseball. Storm became the first woman in American television history to host a major network's sports package when NBC had her host baseball games from 1994 to 2000, and then the NBA games from 1997 to 2002. She also covered NBA games on cable for Turner Network Television.

She has introduced Robert Schnakenberg's series of books primarily based on the stories of WNBA players, these books are named Women Who Win. She also wrote a book named Go Girl: Raising Healthy, Successful Girls Through Sports.

While covering the 1995 World Series for NBC, Storm unwittingly came into the crosshairs of volatile Cleveland Indians slugger Albert Belle. Apparently, prior to Game 3, Storm was waiting in the Indians' dugout for a prearranged interview with Indians leadoff man, Kenny Lofton. Then out of nowhere, Belle came screaming profanities towards Storm.

In October 2002, she moved to CBS News as host of The Early Show.

Storm revealed on camera during The Early Show that she had a congenital defect known as port-wine stain under her left eye, which was later removed by a plastic surgeon using a laser technique.

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