Mina Kimes | |
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 Kimes on NFL Live in 2021 | |
| Born | Mina Mugil Kimes [1] September 8, 1985 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Employer | ESPN |
| Spouse | Nick Sylvester (m. 2015) |
| Children | 1 |
Mina Mugil Kimes (born September 8, 1985) is an American journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. She has written for Fortune , Bloomberg News , and ESPN . [2] [3] [4] She is a senior writer at ESPN and an analyst on NFL Live . [5]
Kimes was born September 8, 1985, in Omaha, Nebraska. [6] Her father served in the United States Air Force as a captain. [7] Kimes is of Korean descent on her mother's side. [8] [9] [10]
Kimes moved to Arizona with her family during her teenage years. She attended Mesquite High School in Gilbert, Arizona and was valedictorian. [11] She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English. [2] [12]
Kimes's first position after college was at Fortune Small Business Magazine in 2007. [2] As a business journalist, she won awards from the New York Press Club, the National Press Club, and the Asian American Journalists Association, amongst other places. [13] [14] Her 2012 investigation entitled Bad to the Bone exposed the unauthorized use of cement to repair bone tissue, with lethal consequences, for which she won the Henry R. Luce Award. [2] [15] The Columbia Journalism Review included her exposés among its business must-reads for 2012. [16] In 2014, she received the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Prize from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. [2]
She joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an investigative reporter. [2] Her profiles of business executives Doug Oberhelman of Caterpillar, in a piece titled King Kat, and Sears executive Eddie Lampert, in a piece titled The Sun Tzu at Sears, won her the Front Page Award for business reporting. [17]
Kimes was offered a position by ESPN editors in 2014 after she wrote an essay on Tumblr about a "bond between herself and her dad and the Seattle Seahawks." [2] [18] At ESPN, she has written about young sports superstars, [19] such as University of Houston basketball player Devonta Pollard. [20] She has written profiles of NFL players Aaron Rodgers, Darrelle Revis, Tyrod Taylor, Antonio Brown, Baker Mayfield, and Michael and Martellus Bennett, and wrote a feature on Korean League of Legends star Faker. [8] [21] [22] She co-wrote with Jeff Passan a piece on sexual harassment claims against former New York Mets GM Jared Porter. [23]
Kimes is an active panelist on Around The Horn and has appeared on First Take , Highly Questionable , The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz , Pardon the Interruption , Debateable, and High Noon. [24] [25] She hosts an NFL-focused podcast entitled The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, a reference to her dog. [5] She signed with Omaha Productions in 2022 to be producers of her podcast. [26]
From October 2019 until July 2020, Kimes hosted ESPN Daily, a daily news podcast. [27] [28] [24] On June 30, 2020, Kimes was announced as an NFL analyst for ESPN's relaunch of NFL Live for the 2020 NFL season. [29]
In 2019, Kimes was hired by the Los Angeles Rams to be a color commentator for their preseason football games. [30]
Kimes was a co-host, along with Amanda Dobbins, of The Ringer's Big Little Live after-show about the HBO series Big Little Lies . [31] She co-hosts Love is Kimes with Davis Dennis Jr, a show about the Netflix series Love is Blind . [32]
On November 29, 2020, Kimes helped celebrity chef David Chang become the first celebrity to win the $1,000,000 top prize for his charity, Southern Smoke Foundation, and the fourteenth overall million dollar winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire , along with Alan Yang as his supporter, via the phone-a-friend lifeline on the million-dollar question. [33]
Kimes married music executive Nick Sylvester in 2015. They live in Los Angeles with their dog Lenny. [34] In 2023, Kimes had her first child, a boy. [35] [36]
She has expressed her support for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners, in part due to her father being from Seattle. [18]
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