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A One on One with ESPN’s Clinton Yates
Join ESPN host Clinton Yates and Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Tony Moton for a conversation about how success in today's sports media market depends on versatility and a multitude of skill sets.
Yates is a columnist, television commentator, and host for ESPN. In March 2024, Yates was named host of the ESPN Daily podcast. He joined ESPN in February 2016 as a member of the editorial team that launched Andscape, the Black multimedia content studio formerly known as The Undefeated. Yates’ profile has grown steadily across ESPN’s multimedia platforms. In addition to writing, he appears on multiple television programs, ESPN Radio, and more.
Prior to ESPN, Yates worked for The Washington Post for nine years where he covered local news, sports, politics, pop culture, and more. He started as a local news editor in May 2007 for Express, the free daily focused on dining, music, movies, arts, fitness, shopping and more in the Washington D.C. area. He eventually moved to Metro, and finally Sports where he wrote for The Post’s popular “DC Sports Bog”.
Moton is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He has earned journalism honors for sports feature writing from the Nevada Press Association (twi
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Clinton Yates is a columnist, television commentator and host for ESPN. He joined the company in February 2016 as a member of the editorial team that launched Andscape, the Black multimedia content studio formerly known as The Undefeated. Yates’ profile has grown steadily across the company’s multimedia platforms. In addition to writing, he appears on multiple television programs, ESPN Radio and more.
In March 2024, Yates was named host of the ESPN Daily podcast.
Yates has done a variety of critically acclaimed multiplatform storytelling at ESPN. In 2018, he hosted “Rickey Won’t Quit,” a 30 for 30 podcast about Rickey Henderson’s attempt at a comeback in Major League Baseball. In 2022, he launched the YouTube series Threads, which breaks down the histories of sports uniforms. In 2024, his story about the University of Virginia football team’s return to normalcy following a shooting tragedy was an APSE finalist for long feature.
On television, Yates is a panelist on Around the Horn and served as a guest host on Outside The Lines. His first E:60 feature chronicled 2019 NBA Draft top-5 prospect Ja Morant.
Yates also appears on SportsCenter and ESPN Radio programs, and he previously co-hosted ESPN Radio’s The Morning Roast national weekend show with Do