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Jeremy Schaap | |
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.jpg) Schaap atWeb Summit in 2014 | |
| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Cornell University |
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| Notable credit | SportsCenter |
| Children | 3 |
| Father | Dick Schaap |
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Jeremy Schaap (born 1969) is an American sportswriter, television reporter and author. Schaap is an 11-timeEmmy Awards winner for his work onESPN'sE:60,SportsCenter, andOutside the Lines.[1]
Schaap was born inNew York City in 1969.[2] He is a regular contributor toNightline andABC World News Tonight and has been published inSports Illustrated,ESPN The Magazine,Time,Parade,The Wall Street Journal, andThe New York Times.
Schaap has worked four major soccer events forESPN as the network's lead reporter, including: the2010 FIFA World Cup,Euro 2012, the2014 FIFA World Cup, andEuro 2016.
A native and resident of New York City, Schaap is the author ofCinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History (Houghton Mifflin,ISBN 0-618-55117-4), aNew York Times best-seller, andTriumph: The Untold Story ofJesse Owens andHitler's Olympics.
Schaap is the son of the late journalist and broadcasterDick Schaap. Like his father, Schaap is an alumnus ofCornell University and a former editor atThe Cornell Daily Sun. Schaap was also a member of theQuill and Dagger society.
He won the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Writing at the 2005 Emmys, an award named after his father, for anOutside the Lines feature titled "FindingBobby Fischer."
Schaap and his wife Joclyn live in Connecticut and are parents of three children.[2]
Born in New York City in 1969, Schaap is a 1991 graduate of Cornell University.
