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A familiar face on the sideline

Michele Tafoya is a well known sportscaster with ESPN.

She is currently the sideline reporter on Monday Night Football, and works on TV and the radio. She has recently moved to cover NASCAR for the TV station.

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Michele Tafoya of ESPN
  • Born 1964 in Manhattan Beach, CA
  • Received a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, and a masters in business administration from the University of Southern California in 1991
  • Worked for several years for CBS Sports, covering the Winter Olympics and various games in the NFL, college football and college basketball
  • Reported for radio station KFAN-AM in Minneapolis, covering the Minnesota Vikings and the University of Minnesota women's basketball team, as well as serving as a sports anchor for WCCO-TV
  • Married Mark Vandersall in 2000, and gave birth to her first child, a son named Tyler Bruce Vandersall, in 2005
  • Joined ABC sports/ESPN in 2000
  • Currently sideline reporter for a number of sports including Monday Night Football, plus she appears regularly on the radio

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"Live" Blogging Game 4 of NBA Finals (2008)
He tells Michelle Tafoya that he's about 89.555%. Kobe looks pensive on the sideline. I like that word for him, "pensive." Just sounds right. ...
What Woodland said about Jackson
Tino Tafoya, 21, works at Woodland Music and Guitar. "It's a sad day for pop music," he said. "(Jackson) contributed a lot of things to music that a lot of ...
UW announces president's honor roll
... Morganne Taylor Smyth, Deborah A. Sneed, Amanda M. Staples, Krista Tafoya, Jason James Terwilliger, Nicholas G. Vaughn, Aaron Ray Vosler, Sondra Wahl, ...
Woodland graduates list
... Navedita Sharma, Cesar Silva, Keri Ann Slaven, Amanda Christine Smith, Abraham Solorio, Shayla Dynae Stevenson, Andrej Tafoya, Whitney M. Tafoya, ...

Michele Tafoya's Bio 

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Michele Tafoya joined ESPN in 2000 and her profile has steadily risen through a variety of on-air roles. She was the sideline reporter for ABC Sports' Monday Night Football in 2004-05, and in the fall of 2006 moved to ESPN's Monday Night Football. Tafoya also serves as an NBA sideline reporter for ABC Sports and ESPN.

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Blog Posts About Michele 

Michele Tafoya comes home
Michele Tafoya, one of the preeminent sideline reporters in the sports broadcasting business, has stepped away from the bustle to spend more time with her young family. Tafoya, who has paced the sideline in the NBA and Monday Night ...
Awful Announcing: Michele Tafoya Gets A Local Minnesota Radio Show ...
Anyway, Michele Tafoya is getting her own radio show, but not on ESPN Radio. The once Mike Tirico Show fill-in is getting a spot on local Minnesota station, CCO Radio. Oh, and she just brought home an adopted baby from Colombia. ...
New Radio Show for Michele Tafoya
Monday Night Football reporter Michele Tayofa kicks off her new afternoon drive radio show in Minneapolis today, appropriately named The Michele Tafoya Show on WCCO Radio (3-6 pm CT, MF). The show will be a mix of sports, news, ...
Monday Night Football’s Michele Tafoya Adopts Baby
tafoya 042009 a Monday Night Footballs Michele Tafoya Adopts Baby Monday Night Football sideline contributor Michele Tafoya has adopted a newborn baby from Colombia. She announced the news this afternoon on WCCO radio in Minneapolis. ...

Michele Tafoya at a Glance 

Michele Tafoya (Vandersall) (born December 17, 1964, in Manhattan Beach, California) is an American sportscaster.

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