Veteran ESPN SportsCenter anchor John Anderson mentioned at present that he’ll retire from the present on the finish of June.
Anderson introduced his choice on his podcast, Inside Wisconsin, which he co-hosts with Trevor Thomas.
“My contract runs out at ESPN on the finish of June and I’ve determined that would be the finish. I’m going to go away the corporate. I’m going to, type of, retire from SportsCenter. I’m going to get to do a couple of monitor & subject issues, I’m going to proceed to do the Boston Marathon, and the New York Marathon which I really like, and a few NCAA monitor meets, and a few SEC stuff, and I’m, like, unbelievable enthusiastic about that”, Anderson mentioned.
Anderson’s been with ESPN since 1999 and has been on ESPN’s late-night programming for the final 20 years.
“I really feel prefer it’s been a very good run and the operation has modified, I don’t know if it has handed me by however, it’s taken its toll and I nonetheless need to have the ability to do the perfect exhibits that I can and I don’t know in years [2026, 2027] that I’ve the stamina to undergo it once more,” Anderson mentioned.
Earlier than touchdown at ESPN, Anderson was a sports activities anchor in Phoenix, Arizona, and had stops in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Columbia, Missouri earlier than that. Anderson graduated from the College of Missouri’s College of Journalism with a bachelor’s diploma in 1987.
“I’m performed and the place I am going subsequent, I don’t know that I’ll be again to Wisconsin or Missouri or Arkansas or Phoenix or South Carolina. I don’t know what’s fairly subsequent, I’ve some issues within the hearth, however SportsCenter is not going to be it anymore”, Anderson mentioned.
