Sage Marie Steele (born November 28, 1972) is an American television anchor who is the former co-host of the 12 noon (ET) SportsCenter on ESPN.

She also hosted SportsCenter on the Road from various sporting events such as the Super Bowl and The Masters, and NBA Countdown on ESPN and ABC for four seasons, ending in 2017.

[1] He was inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 for his standout career on the Black Knights football and track & field teams.

[2] Sage Steele was born in 1972 into an American Army family living in the Panama Canal Zone.

[3] Steele has two brothers, Courtney and Chad (senior vice president of media relations for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens).

Steele's next stop was the ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa, Florida, from 1998 to 2001, where she was a sports reporter with former WFTS sports director and former SportsCenter host Jay Crawford and current "NFL RedZone" host Scott Hanson.

In an interview with Awful Announcing, she mentioned that she'd actually been offered a job with the network in 2004, but had turned it down as she was then pregnant with her second child.

During the pace laps at the beginning of the race, she was bumped in jest by then-five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson.

[14] On October 5, 2021, Steele was suspended with pay by ESPN for remarks she made on Jay Cutler's September 29 podcast about COVID-19 vaccine mandates, women who dress in a way she feels is provocative, and Barack Obama calling himself black even though he, like Steele, has a white mother.

"[17] Steele filed a lawsuit against ESPN in April 2022, alleging that the network had retaliated against her in the months following the suspension.

[22][23][24][25] In March 2021, Steele put her home in Avon, Connecticut, on the market for $1.6 million,[26] after doing extensive renovations.