John Buccigross

Co-Host, Daytime SportsCenter 

John Buccigross

John Buccigross serves as co-host of SportsCenter each weekday from Noon-3 p.m. ET with Chris McKendry. 

Buccigross joined the company as an ESPNEWS anchor in 1996, prior to the launch of the 24-hour sports news network.  He was the primary host of NHL 2Night, ESPN2’s 30-minute program dedicated to hockey highlights and news from 1998-2004. Since 2001, he has also been a weekly ESPN.com columnist.

Before joining ESPN, Buccigross had been at WPRI-TV in Providence, R.I. He started as the station’s weekend sports anchor in 1994, and later was named weekday anchor. Before WPRI, Buccigross worked at a local news network, Cape 11 News, in Massachusetts from 1989 to 1994. 

Buccigross also authored a book entitled,” Jonesy: Put Your Head Down and Skate: The Improbable Career of Keith Jones.”

Buccigross, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., received a communications/theater arts degree from Heidelberg University. 

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