He worked the nightly sports desk at WICS, in Springfield, Illinois, where Fred Hickman his future co-anchor at CNN began his career.
He co-hosted CNN Sports Tonight with Fred Hickman, and later hosted his own program, Page One with Nick Charles until leaving the network in 2001.
Nick Charles and former heavyweight contender George Chuvalo shared the Bill Crawford Award for perseverance in overcoming adversity in 2009 from the Boxing Writer's Association.
It was reported in USA Today[4] that Nick Charles was taking a leave of absence from Showtime in 2009 to battle stage 4 bladder cancer.
[5] As documented on the June 19, 2011 edition of CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD he was in the final stages of the disease.
She is a cum laude graduate of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, which she attended on a four-year NCAA softball scholarship.
Mrs. Charles has a master's degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has attended UCLA.
He spoke openly to CNN's Sanjay Gupta and other reporters about his failures in life, and about how he finally got it right in his last marriage.
In 2009, Charles was diagnosed with metastatic bladder cancer, as documented on the June 19, 2011 edition of CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD.