Jeremy Schaap - The Importance of Sports in American Society

One of ESPN’s most respected and longest-tenured personalities, Jeremy Schaap has been with the network since 1994. He is a regular contributor to Nightline and ABC World News Tonight and has been published in Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, Time, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Schaap has covered most major sports and sporting events in the world, including summer Olympics, winter Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Tour de France, European soccer championship, World Series, Super Bowl, U.S. Open (golf and tennis), Wimbledon, French Open, men’s Final Four, women’s Final Four, New York City marathon, NBA playoffs, World Cup of Hockey, Daytona 500, Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, college football national championship game, Breeders’ Cup, world championship boxing, Special Olympics World Games, Invictus Games, and X Games.Schaap is the author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, a New York Times best-seller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics. In 2018, Schaap co-directed 42 to 1, the acclaimed 30 for 30 documentary about Buster Douglas, who in 1990 upset Mike Tyson to win the undisputed heavyweight championship. But it has been Schaap’s reporting on sports issues around the world, especially those at the intersection of sports and society at large, focusing on human rights, for which he is perhaps best known.Support the show