Jeremy Schaap

Jeremy Schaap (b. August 23 1969, New York City) is an American sportswriter, television reporter, and author. Schaap is an Emmy award winner for his work as the host of "Outside the Lines", a sports news and interviews program, on ESPN.

He is a regular contributor to "Nightline" and "ABC World News Tonight" and has been published in "Sports Illustrated", "ESPN The Magazine", "Time", "Parade", and the "New York Times".

A native and current resident of New York City, Schaap is the author of "Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History" (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-618-55117-4), a "New York Times" best-seller, and "Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics".

Schaap is the son of the late journalist and broadcaster Dick Schaap. Like his father, Schaap is an alumnus of Cornell University and a former editor of "The Cornell Daily Sun". His punctuated speaking style is also reminiscent of his father's style. Schaap was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He won the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Writing at the 2005 Emmys, an award named after his father, for an "Outside the Lines" feature entitled "Finding Bobby Fischer."