Rece Davis

Rece Davis (born December 14, 1965 as Laurece Davis in Chicago, IL), grew up in Muscle Shoals, AL and has been a journalist for ESPN since 1995. Davis works as an anchor on "SportsCenter", and host of various other programs on the network. Davis is married, and has two children, a son and a daughter.

College life and early career

Davis graduated in 1988 from the University of Alabama, earning bachelor of arts degrees in both Broadcast News and Public Affairs. While a student at Alabama, Davis regularly worked as a freelance television play-by-play announcer, studio host, and radio personality in select media outlets throughout the state, all positions which were primarily unpaid internships. In 1987, Davis began working as a general assignment reporter for WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 2001 Davis was named as an outstanding alumnus of the University of Alabama's School of Communication and Information Sciences.

Before ESPN

After graduating from Alabama, Davis served until 1993 in various positions at WRBL-TV in Columbus, Georgia. At the local news network, Davis worked as a sports reporter, the lead weekend news anchor, and later as WRBL's sports director.

In 1993, Davis left Georgia for the media market in Flint, Michigan. Davis began working as a sports anchor and reporter at WJRT-TV, a position where the young journalist would quickly garner the attention of ESPN.

Career at ESPN

Davis left WJRT and Flint, Michigan in March 1995 for Bristol, Connecticut. He began working for the ESPN2 program "SportSmash", where he provided five-minute reports on sports news and scores. Davis hosted ESPN2's "NBA 2Night" in 1996 and 1997. From 1997 through 1999, Davis served as studio host of ESPN2's weekend "RPM 2Night" and Sunday morning "RPM 2Day" programs. Davis went on to anchor the program "SportsCenter", alongside a number of other ESPN Personalities. Davis also frequently gave the "Extra Point" report of "The Dan Patrick Show" on ESPN Radio, and from time to time was a guest host on the program.

Davis works on "SportsCenter", college football and college basketball for the network.

Davis is now the regular season host of College Football Live which airs daily during college football season and is also anchor of the studio crew of College GameDay (football) and College GameDay Final. He is also the host of the road College GameDay (basketball) show.

Davis has commented on his work at ESPN, by saying: "I don't think of my job as being hard. I know I'm the luckiest guy around. I get to watch basketball and talk about it. When you never feel as if you go to work, it's really easy and fun to do the homework." [ [http://www.allcoachnetwork.com/magarity/5on5_rece.html Dave Magarity - The Most Portly and Stout Site on the Web ] ]

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External link

* [http://www.espnmediazone.com/bios/Talent/Davis_Rece.htm Rece Davis bio]