Stephen A. Smith, Host of ESPN's Quite Frankly Will Keynote CIAA Men's Basketball Tip-Off Banquet
Stephen A. Smith, Host of ESPN’s Quite Frankly Will Keynote CIAA Men’s Basketball Tip-Off Banquet
February 15, 2006
Charlotte, NC… The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association is proud to welcome back one of its own, Stephen A. Smith, to deliver the keynote address at the Annual CIAA Men’s Tip-Off Banquet held at the Westin Hotel, Tuesday, February 28, at 6:30pm.
Stephen A. Smith returns with ESPN to host the semi-finals through championship night on ESPN, the second year in an agreement with the world’s leading sports network.
Smith, a Winston-Salem State University graduate, joined ESPN as an NBA analyst in October of 2003. Smith hosts Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, a 60-minute daily dose of sports news, opinions, issues and headlines, which premiered August 1, 2005 and is currently televised each weeknight at 11 p.m. on ESPN2. Since April, Smith has also hosted The Stephen A. Smith Show weekdays from 12-2 p.m. on ESPN Radio 1050 in New York City.
Additionally, Smith serves as an analyst on the NBA Shootaround pre-game show, update segments and at halftime, as well as between games of Friday night doubleheaders. Smith regularly appears each Tuesday throughout the NBA season on ESPN2’s NBA Nation (formerly NBA Fastbreak Tuesday), the unique weekly 90-minute program featuring NBA highlights and analysis along with live cut-ins to games, and he contributes to ESPN2’s NBA Fastbreak, a five-night-per-week recap of the NBA generally aired at midnight, as well as SportsCenter and other studio shows and ESPN Radio.
Smith has been a sports writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1994. After first serving as a general sports writer, he has covered the 76ers and has been the paper’s NBA columnist before becoming a general sports columnist in 2003.
Previously, he covered news and sports at the New York Daily News (1993 – 1994) and worked at the Greensboro News and Record (1992 – 1993) and the Winston-Salem Journal (1991 – 1992).
Since 1999, he has also been active in television and radio, primarily in Philadelphia, but also on Fox Sports Net, Fox News Channel, Fox Sports Radio and CNN/SI, in addition to appearances on ESPN Radio.
