Rece Davis
College Basketball & College Football Studio Host and SportsCenter Anchor/Reporter
Rece Davis
Rece Davis serves as primary studio host for ESPN and ESPN2’s coverage of college football and college basketball. He is the host of ESPN’s College GameDay basketball and College Football Final. Davis has also served on ESPN and ABC’s triple crown horse racing coverage and ESPN’s NFL Draft coverage. He appears on select editions of SportsCenter and frequently provides commentary for ESPN Radio.
Previously, Davis hosted ESPN2’s weekend RPM 2Night and Sunday morning RPM 2Day programs (1997-1999), and ESPN2’s NBA 2Night, the network’s daily NBA highlights/news program (1996-97).
In 2008, Davis won the Best Sports Host award given by Cable Fax.
Before joining ESPN, Davis worked at WJRT-TV in Flint, Mich., as a sports anchor/reporter (1993-95). Before working at WJRT-TV, he was a sports anchor and sports director at WRBL-TV in Columbus, Ga. (1988-93) and a general assignment reporter for WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (1987-88). He also worked as a freelance television play-by-play announcer, studio host and radio announcer in select media outlets in Alabama (1983-93).
Davis, a native of Muscle Shoals, Ala., was graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama in 1988 with a bachelor of arts degree in broadcast news and public affairs. Davis was named the University of Alabama School of Communication Broadcast Department’s outstanding alumnus for 2001.
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