Doris Burke | |
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Born | January 4, 1965 Manasquan, New Jersey, U.S. |
Occupation | television sports reporter, color analyst |
Years active | 1988 - present |
Spouse | Gregg Burke |
Doris Burke (born January 4, 1965) is a sideline reporter and color analyst for ESPN college basketball as well as ESPN and NBA on ABC NBA games. She is also an analyst for WNBA games on MSG, and has worked on New York Knicks games, becoming the first female to be an analyst for NBA games.
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Biography
Born in West Islip, New York and raised in Manasquan, New Jersey, Burke reportedly was the first woman to be a color analyst for a New York Knicks game on radio and on television, the first woman to be an analyst for a Big East men's game, and the first woman to be the primary analyst on a men's college basketball conference package.
She is a former basketball player and graduate of Providence College where she was named College's Female Athlete of the Year, and was the fifth woman inducted into the Providence College Hall of Fame.
Broadcasting career
Her broadcasting career began in 1990 as an analyst for women's games for her alma mater on the radio. That same year, Burke began working the same role on Big East Women's games on television and, in 1996 she began again the same role as the Big East men's game. She has been the lead analyst for ESPN's coverage of the WNBA and since 1997 has been the primary radio and television voice of the New York Liberty. In 2003, Burke was named to ESPN's top men's basketball team working with Dick Vitale on the men's games and working the sidelines for ESPN and ABC for their coverage of the NBA. Also in 2003 she received from USA Today a Rudy Award as the Best New Face in Sports Television.
In the spring of 2004 Burke was honored with induction into the Institute for International Sport's Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame and in the spring of 2005 Providence College awarded her with an honorary degree. In October 2006 she was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. Also in 2006, she became a member of the North Providence Hall of Fame.
Doris is the youngest of eight children. She started playing basketball in the second grade. She attended Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. She was a coach there, where she met Gregg Burke, now her husband. Gregg is now the deputy athletic director at the University of Rhode Island.
Burke handles both men's and women's basketball at the college and pro level. She is an analyst on mostly Big East games for men's college basketball games, often teaming with Mike Patrick or Dave O'Brien. She is a sideline reporter for NBA games on ESPN and ABC, as well as being an analyst on selected games on ESPN for NBA games.
In 2009 and 2010, she served as a sideline reporter for the NBA Finals for ABC Sports.
In 2010 she was featured as the new sideline reporter for 2K Sports's NBA 2K11 video game. [1]