Sports journalist · Host · Executive producer
Rachel
Nichols.
Three decades asking athletes the questions everyone else wants answered — from The Washington Post to ESPN, CNN, and now Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated.
Three decades asking athletes the questions everyone else wants answered — from The Washington Post to ESPN, CNN, and now Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated.
What Rachel Nichols is working on now.
Member, Board of Directors.
Co-chair of the educational scholarship fund for underserved girls across Los Angeles.
An Emmy-winning journalist, Rachel Nichols is currently a television analyst and host at Fox Sports, appearing across the network’s broadcast and digital platforms.
Nichols also co-hosts Open Floor, Sports Illustrated’s weekly NBA podcast, and she created and currently hosts two interview series: Hometown with Rachel Nichols on Monumental Sports Network, a multiple-Emmy-winning show about athletes and entertainers with deep ties to the Washington, D.C. area, and Open Run from All The Smoke Productions, a short-form series filmed on location at major events, including the Paris Olympics.
Prior to her current roles, Nichols created and hosted ESPN’s first daily NBA show, The Jump, and led it from ESPN2 to flagship status — including its run as ABC’s official pregame show. This was during her second stint at the network; previously she had been a sideline reporter for the network’s prestigious Monday Night Football broadcasts, as well as a founding member of the network’s Emmy-winning newsmagazine E:60, and featured reporter on SportsCenter covering all sports. Nichols became known for an engaging and revelatory interview style that made her a regular on the network’s Sunday Conversation series.
After leaving ESPN for the second time in 2021, Nichols was hired by Showtime to create an interview series. Headliners with Rachel Nichols featured guests such as Allen Iverson, Steph Curry, Dwyane Wade, and Dirk Nowitzki. Nichols has also worked at CNN, creating, hosting, and executive producing the show Unguarded with Rachel Nichols on CNN and CNN International. She worked as a sideline reporter and occasional host for both the NBA on TNT and MLB on TBS, and was also a regular on CBS Sports’ coverage of March Madness.
Nichols began her career in print, covering sports for The Washington Post for nearly a decade, with a reporting resume that spans the Super Bowl, the World Series, the World Cup, the Olympic Games, all four tennis majors, and the Masters.
Her honors include Emmy awards, the Alliance for Women Foundation Gracie Award, and the Ed Block Courage Award. A magna cum laude graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she returned in 2018 as its graduation speaker. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Rachel Nichols is currently a television analyst and host at Fox Sports. She also co-hosts Open Floor, Sports Illustrated’s NBA podcast, and hosts two interview series she created: Hometown with Rachel Nichols on Monumental Sports Network and Open Run from All The Smoke Productions.
Rachel Nichols hosts two interview series she created: Hometown with Rachel Nichols on Monumental Sports Network, a multiple-Emmy-winning show about athletes and entertainers with deep ties to the Washington, D.C. area, and Open Run from All The Smoke Productions, filmed on location at major events, including the Paris Olympics. She also co-hosts Open Floor, Sports Illustrated’s weekly NBA podcast.
Yes. Rachel Nichols appears as herself in Season 2 and Season 3 of the Apple TV+ series Your Friends and Neighbors. Season 3 is currently in production.
Rachel Nichols is an Emmy-winning journalist. Her honors include Emmy awards, the Alliance for Women Foundation Gracie Award, and the Ed Block Courage Award.
Rachel Nichols is a magna cum laude graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She returned to Northwestern as its graduation speaker in 2018.
For press, speaking, and booking inquiries, contact CAA at +1 424 288 2000. Nichols is a frequent moderator and panelist for organizations including Nike, American Express, MIT, Bloomberg, CAA, Sportico, and Sports Business Journal.
“An engaging and revelatory interview style” — thirty years of it, and counting.