sage steel net worth
Sage Steele Net Worth and Salary: Sage Steele is an American television anchor who has a net worth of $1.5 million. She hosts Friday and Sunday’s NBA Countdown on ESPN and ABC, and she was the full-time co-host of ESPN’s flagship SportsCenter for five years prior to her tenure in the NBA.
She also contributed to ESPN First Take, Mike & Mike in the Morning, and SportsNation, as well as SportsCenter’s daytime coverage of the 2012 and 2013 NBA Finals. She has hosted the Scripps National Spelling Bee every year since 2009. Steele was born in 1972 to an American military family living in the Panama Canal Zone. Growing up, her father was stationed around the world, and she attended high school in Colorado and Indiana. She graduated from Indiana University in 1995 and began working as a sports reporter for WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana, from 1995 to 1997. She went on to work as a sports reporter for various local affiliates before joining the ESPN team in 2007; her first assignment was on the Sports Center’s evening edition. Steele is the daughter of Gary Steele, the first African-American to play football at West Point in the 1960s. He was inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 for his stellar career with the Black Knights football and track teams. Her brother Chad is also involved in sports and is the media relations director for the Baltimore Ravens football team. Steele and her husband Jonathan Bailey have three children together.
