John Saunders
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John Peterson Saunders (February 2, 1955 – August 10, 2016) was a Canadian-American sports journalist.
From 1986 to his death in 2016, he worked for ESPN and ABC.
Personal life
Since his then-girlfriend dragged him to the hospital to get tested, John was an advocate for juvenile diabetes research. He was also a founder board member of the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research, a non-profit that has raised $200 million with 100% of the funds going to cancer research. Saunders and his family lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, with their wife and children. Bernie Saunders, the brother of former National Hockey League player Bernie Saunders, was the brother of the player.
Early life and career
Saunders attended high school in Châteaux. Saunders, a former player in the Montreal junior leagues, received a scholarship and played hockey at Western Michigan University from 1974 to 1976, with his brother Bernie. He attended Ryerson University in Toronto and played for the Rams from 1976 to 1978. Saunders was named to the Ontario University Athletic Association All-Star team during the 1977-78 season.
He was the news director of CKNS Radio (Espanola, Ontario, 1978), and a sports anchor at CKNY-TV (North Bay, Ontario, 1978-1980). He also served as the main sports anchor for CITY-TV (Toronto, 1980–1982). He then went to the United States to work as a sports anchor at WMAR-TV (Baltimore, 1982–1986).
Career at ESPN and ABC Sports
Saunders joined ESPN in 1986 and became the host of ESPN's The Sports Reporters, beginning with Dick Schaap's illness and subsequent death in September 2001. From 1987 to 1989, he co-hosted NFL Primetime. He served as the secondary studio host for the network's NHL broadcasts from 1986-88, assassinating lead host Tom Mees when necessary. He was the lead studio host from 1992-93 until 2004, and then from 1994 to 2004 and then on ABC from 1992 to 2004, and most recently on ABC from 1992 to 2005. He has also hosted ABC's coverage of baseball under the Baseball Night in America banner, and has been involved in ESPN's coverage earlier in his career. He also appeared on ABC's 1995 World Series.
Playing Hurt: My Journey From Despair to Hope, Saunders' book, which spans his three-decade work at ESPN and ABC, was released posthumously in 2017.
Saunders played by play for ESPN's NBA coverage from 2002 to 2004, and occasionally during the 2007 season, mainly on Sunday nights. From 2004 to 2006, he was the studio host of ESPN's NBA Shootaround.
Saunders has also worked as a back-up play-by-play man for NBA on ABC. On ESPN, he referred to the majority of the Team U.S.A. games for the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship.
With Chris Berman and analyst Tom Jackson, he began hosting the Sunday SportsCenter at 7 p.m. ET during the NFL season in 2008.
He was the Toronto Raptors' television play-by-play announcer from 1995 to 2001, before being replaced by Chuck Swirsky.