Leslie Boghosian

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Leslie Boghosian is one of the original on-air personalities at the YES Network, starting at its inception in March of 2002. She is the lead reporter for New Jersey Nets telecasts and is the New York Giants beat reporter for New York Football Sunday and This Week in Football. Boghosian also serves time on the anchor desk hosting Nets Magazine, YES Network Magazine and fills in for the Nets pre and post game.

In 2004 Boghosian received a New York Emmy Award writing and directing Harlem Champions: Road to Williamsport documenting the journey of the 2002 Harlem Little League team. While working on YNM, Boghosian has flown the trapeze, skated with members of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team and accompanied the UN/NFL envoy to South East Asia for tsunami relief.

Boghosian began her career at ESPN as a feature/investigative producer. In 1998 she was nominated for a National Emmy Award in Sports Journalism for her exclusive feature on former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy and his suffering from sexual abuse at the hands of his junior hockey coach.

In 1999 Boghosian joined CNN as a producer/reporter in their sports department and contributor for their web site. In 2000 she was awarded the National Headliner Journalism Award for best sports reporting. Boghosian's reporting has included the use and effects of GHB, alcoholism in the NHL and has sent her down to Venezuela to document major league baseball players' efforts to aid in the relief of the 1999 catastrophic mudslides. In 2001 Boghosian got the first and only interview of former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth after his conviction of conspiracy to commit murder of his pregnant girlfriend and was subsequently written up in Sports Illustrated as an example of someone who could land and conduct "the big interview."

Boghosian graduated from Temple University where she double-majored in rhetoric/communications and political science. She was a member of the Women's Lacrosse team where she earned a spot on the academic-athletic achievement list.