Career
Brennan received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. [3] After graduating, she worked for the Miami Herald , becoming the Herald's first female sports reporter in 1981. She covered the Miami Hurricanes during their trip to the 1984 Orange Bowl national championship game, after which she wrote her first book, The Miracle of Miami. [4] At the game, she connected with former classmate Michael Wilbon, who recommended her to his Washington Post editors; she joined the Post's sports staff shortly thereafter. [5] She covered the Washington Redskins beat for three years, [6] then moved on to covering the Olympic Games. She worked for the Post for 12 years before joining USA Today as its national sports columnist in 1997. [7]
She is an on-air commentator for ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour, and NPR. [1] She has covered every Olympic Games, summer and winter, since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
She has written seven books on sports, including best-selling Inside Edge, about Olympic figure skating, which was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated in 2002. [8] In 2025, Brennan wrote On Her Game for Scribner, an unauthorized biography of Caitlin Clark exploring the media phenomenon of the player's popularity. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
Advocacy
In 1988, Brennan was elected the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media. [2] A longtime advocate for women in sports journalism, she started AWSM's scholarship-internship program for female journalism students, which has now honored 200 students. She funds two of the scholarships, which are named after her late parents. [14] In 2023, she came back to AWSM's leadership as chair of the board.
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