Todd Harris

Sideline Reporter  

Todd Harris

Todd Harris joined ABC Sports in July of 1999 as a sideline reporter on ABC Sports’ coverage of college football. Since that time, he has covered a variety of events for the network and ESPN, and is fast becoming one of the most respected young talent in the industry. 

After just one year as a pit reporter on ABC’s IndyCar Racing League coverage, Todd was tabbed as the new play-by-play announcer in March 2005, joining analysts Scott Goodyear and Gil de Ferran in the broadcast booth on ABC Sports and ESPN’s IRL races. 

For the past seven years, he has worked as a college football sideline reporter on ABC’s broadcast team with legendary announcer Keith Jackson and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Dan Fouts. 

Harris is the current host and play-by-play announcer for ESPN’s “The World’s Strongest Man”, Supercross and Motocross series. He has covered several other sports, with a background in extreme sports such as snowboarding and surfing, and is a contributing writer for ABC Sports’ BCS Online site, Snowboard Life Magazine and Snowboarding Online. 

Prior to joining ABC, Harris spent several years working for various broadcast networks, including Outdoor Life Network, Prime Network, TBS, TNT and Fox Sports. 

Harris covered the NBA Playoffs for Turner Sports, beginning in 1998. He also worked for Turner Sports at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the New York City Goodwill Games, and worked for NBC at the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. 

A 1990 graduate of Brigham Young University, Harris has a bachelor of arts in broadcast journalism/communications.  Harris is a native of Southern California, was raised in Portland Ore., and now resides in North Ogden, Utah, with his wife and their five children. 

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