Scoring a gig as cohost of 2017's Miss America competition messed with sportscaster Sage Steele's game face.
"When I was first asked if I was interested, I couldn’t stop smiling because it brought back wonderful, funny memories from my childhood," she recalled to ESPN's Front Row in July. "I would wake up in the morning and walk downstairs with big, poofy, out-of-control hair, and my grandmother and aunt would start to sing, 'There she is … Miss America …' the theme song for the pageant; in jest, of course!"
Before she emcees this year's show with The Bachelor's Chris Harrison on Sunday, September 11th, at Nine p.m. ET, continue to exist ABC, the NBA Countdown anchor, 43, shared 25 fascinating facts about herself solely with Us Weekly!
1. I'm repeatedly requested if Sage Steele is my actual title. Yes, it's! It's now not a "stage name."
2. I've got a serious candy teeth. I can't cross to mattress at night without dessert. It's an issue.
3. I like vehicles, and I like using speedy … which is also a problem.
4. When I used to be 12 years outdated, I introduced to my circle of relatives that I sought after to be a TV sportscaster. I feel blessed to be residing my dream.
5. I've huge ft. Size Eleven is difficult to search out — help!
6. I grew up as an Army brat and lived in 4 different international locations by the time I graduated from highschool.
7. My first activity was at Dairy Queen.
8. I've three children: Quinn, 14, Nicholas, 12, and Evan, 10 [with husband Jonathan Bailey].
9. I competed in equestrian events as an adolescent and am back at it once more. Horseback riding is my break out.
10. I have to go to the salon each and every 3 weeks because my hair is 100 percent gray. Thank goodness the curls distract everybody!
11. My love of sports activities comes from my dad [Gary Steele], who was once a 1970 West Point graduate, a retired Army colonel and an Army Sports Hall of Famer. He used to be additionally the first black guy to play varsity football at West Point and used to be later drafted by way of the Detroit Lions.
12. I'm Forty three years old but nonetheless sleep with my child blanket.
13. If I wasn't a sports activities broadcaster, I'd be an actual property agent.
14. The largest honor of my profession was once giving the 2015 graduation speech at my alma mater, Indiana University.
15. I was within the Air Force ROTC in school.
16. I like baking.
17. I pick all of my very own on-air clothes and niknaks.
18. I'm proud to be biracial. My dad is black, and my mom is part Irish and part Italian — the best of both worlds.
19. I could not land a TV sports activities process after graduating from college, so I started my career as a information producer in South Bend, Indiana.
20. I'm an enormous NASCAR fan (go, Jimmie Johnson!) and were given to pressure the pace automobile at the 2013 Brickyard 400.
21. One of my all-time favorite jobs was once waiting tables at (*25*) Colorado Steakhouse in Bloomington, Indiana.
22. My brother, Chad, is the VP of public relations for the Baltimore Ravens.
23. I am getting choked up every single time I pay attention the nationwide anthem.
24. I used to be the spelling bee champ at my fundamental school in Belgium.
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25. If I was a Miss America contestant, my skill could be "fast talking" — you know, like the fellows who race thru the entire legalese at the end of radio and TV advertisements.
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