John Anderson, one of SportsCenter’s longest-tenured anchors, will be departing the show and ESPN in the coming months, he joined ESPN 25 years ago as an anchor on ESPNews.
BREAKING: Longtime ESPN SportsCenter Anchor John Anderson announces he is retiring from SportsCenter at the end of June, 2024.
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He has been with the network since 1999, announced that he will be leaving the company when his contract comes up at the end of June. Anderson believes it is time to stop doing ESPN’s flagship show.
However, as per his announcement he will still being part of ESPN’s track and field coverage, including the New York City and Boston marathons on top of NCAA meets, in his words “which I love.”
Anderson announce his retirement on his podcast, The Inside Wisconsin Show, in a short video shared he said,
“My contract runs out at ESPN at the end of June. I have decided that that will be the end. I’m going to leave the company. I’m going to sort of retire from ‘SportsCenter.’ I’m going to get to do a few track-and-field things, I’m going to get to continue to do the Boston Marathon and the New York Marathon – which I love – and some NCAA track meets and some SEC stuff. I’m incredibly excited about that. It’s been a good run. I feel like it’s been a good run.”
He also continued in the clip posted by the “The Inside Wisconsin” show on social media Wednesday,
“I am incredibly excited about that. It’s been a good run… I feel like it’s been a good run. The operation has changed. I don’t know that it’s passed me by, but it’s taken its toll and I still want to be able to do the best shows that I can, and I don’t know that if in years 26 or 27 I have the stamina to do it again.”
Before joining ESPN in 1999, he had been a sports anchor for KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona and also once a reporter at Tulsa’s KTUL-TV.
Anderson usually hosts the 11 p.m. ET edition of “SportsCenter” and has been a fan favorite for well over a decade. He also had called track and field for Olympic Broadcasting Services during the Tokyo Games.
