Craig Sager
American sports reporter (1951–2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Craig Graham Sager (/ˈseɪɡər/ SAY-ghər; June 29, 1951 – December 15, 2016) was an American sports reporter who covered an array of sports for CNN and its sister stations TBS and TNT, from 1981 until his death in late 2016.
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Born | Craig Graham Sager June 29, 1951 Batavia, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | December 15, 2016(2016-12-15) (aged 65) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Alma mater | Northwestern University |
Occupation(s) | TV sports broadcaster, commentator and announcer |
Years active | 1972–2016 |
Employer(s) | Turner Sports (TNT, TBS) |
Spouses | Lisa Gabel (m. 1980–2002)Stacy Strebel (m. 2001) |
Children | 5 |
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Sager worked as a sideline reporter pacing the floors of the National Basketball Association, as he invariably sported one of his vast collection of garishly eccentric jackets and suits. He was a 2016 inductee of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame.[1] During the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, Sager was named the 2017 recipient of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Curt Gowdy Media Award.[2]