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Jeremy Schaap
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Jeremy Schaap
Jeremy
Schaap (b. August 23, 1969, New York City) is an American sportswriter,
television reporter, and author. Schaap is an Emmy award winner
for his work as the host of Outside the Lines, a sports news and
interviews program, on ESPN. He is a regular contributor to Nightline
and ABC World News Tonight and has been published in Sports Illustrated,
ESPN The Magazine, Time, Parade, and the New York Times.
A native and current resident of New York City, Schaap is the author
of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest
Upset in Boxing History (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-618-55117-4),
a New York Times best-seller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse
Owens and Hitler's Olympics.
Schaap is the son of the late journalist and broadcaster Dick Schaap.
Like his father, Schaap is an alumnus of Cornell University and
a former editor of The Cornell Daily Sun. Schaap was also a member
of the Quill and Dagger society. He won the Dick Schaap Award for
Outstanding Writing at the 2005 Emmys, an award named after his
father, for an Outside the Lines feature entitled "Finding
Bobby Fischer."