Role Sportswriter Title Reporter Parents Dick Schaap | Children 2 Name Jeremy Schaap Books Triumph, Cinderella Man | |
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Born August 23, 1969 (age 55) ( 1969-08-23 ) New York Occupation Author, Sports journalist Siblings Rosie Schaap, David Schaap, Kari Schaap Movies and TV shows E:60, Outside the Lines, SportsCentury, Cinderella Man: The James J Similar People Dick Schaap, Andy Tennant, Bob Ley Profiles | ||
"Words Hurt"-by Jeremy Schaap
Jeremy Albert Schaap (born August 23, 1969) is an American sportswriter, television reporter, and author. Schaap is an eight-time Emmy Award winner for his work on ESPN's E:60, SportsCenter, and Outside the Lines.
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Biography
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.
A native and 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 at 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 titled "Finding Bobby Fischer." Schaap and his wife have three children, two girls and a boy.