By the time UW alumna Thuc Nhi Nguyen was in middle school, she had a regular afterschool routine. She would rush home to watch three sports-talk programs on TV: first Sports Center, then Around the Horn, and finally Pardon the Interruption. And as she watched, she thought, “That’s what I want to do. I want to work in sports media.”
She has never wavered from that goal.
Nguyen (BA, Communication, Mathematics, 2015) is now a sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times, covering the LA Lakers basketball team and the Olympics. Remembering her introduction to sports media as a middle schooler, she marvels at how far she’s come.
“One of the central figures on Around the Horn — an iconic ESPN show that just stopped airing last year — was Bill Plaschke, who’s a columnist with me at the LA Times,” Nguyen says. “For my money, he’s the best sports columnist in the whole country. I started watching him on TV when I was 12 or 13, and now I actually work with him every day. That’s very, very cool.”
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