J. A. Adande

J.A. Adande (/əˈdɑːndeɪ/; born October 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American sports columnist who covers the National Basketball Association for ESPN.com. He also serves as a panelist for ESPN's Around the Horn and as a guest host on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption television shows. Adande is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism,[1][2] where he teaches a class entitled "Sports Commentary," and co-teaches a class entitled "Sports Public Relations."

Career

Adande joined ESPN.com as an NBA columnist in August 2007. The panel at Around the Horn all congratulated him on the job and played a joke "Buy or Sell" segment about Adande's comments about joining ESPN. He is also now an NBA analyst on SportsCenter.[3]

Personal life

He was born in Los Angeles, the son of Desire and Elizabeth (Oberstein) Adande.[4] His grandfather, Gerson "Gus" Oberstein (1914-2003), was a violinist who had played with jazzmen Joe Roland and Charlie Parker, and later with the Berkeley Symphony.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://annenberg.usc.edu/CurrentStudents/Resources/Syllabi/Jour/~/media/PDFs/syllabi/J%20499%20Adande%20pdf.ashx
  2. ↑ "USC School of Journalism - Adjunct Faculty". Retrieved on 2009-10-28.
  3. ↑ J.A. Adande, ESPNLosAngeles.com, January 25, 2010
  4. ↑ "Person Details for Adetokum J Adande, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"". familysearch.org.
  5. ↑ "OBERSTEIN, Gerson". SFGate. 17 August 2003.

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