Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator for CNN, ABC News, PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio, a New York Times bestselling author and a nationally-known speaker. Named one of the country's top sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors multiple times, she has covered the last 21 Olympic Games, summer and winter.
Brennan was the first woman sports writer at The Miami Herald in 1981 and the first woman to cover the Washington Football Team as a staff writer at The Washington Post in 1985. She was the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) and started an internship-scholarship program that has supported more than 200 female students over the past two decades. In 2020, Brennan won the prestigious Red Smith Award, presented annually to a person who has made "major contributions to sports journalism."
Brennan is the author of eight books. Her newest book, On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports, debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list in July
2025. Her 2006 sports memoir, Best Seat in the House, is the only father-daughter memoir written by a sports journalist. Her 1996 national bestseller, Inside Edge, was named one of the top 100 sports books of all-time by Sports Illustrated.
Brennan earned undergraduate and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. She is a member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement, Northwestern's Athletic Hall of Fame and the Washington, D.C., Sports Hall of Fame.
