a report by Michael McCarthy in Front Office Sports<\/a>. Her first assignment will be as a sideline reporter at the Nebraska Red-White spring game on Saturday.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m going to be contributing in-studio across their studio shows and other programming,\u201d Steele told Front Office Sports of her new role. \u201cI will be anchoring in-studio across daytime shows and nighttime shows. This is a contributor role. I\u2019ll be filling in for people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steele has taken on a number of various roles since, both in and out of television, since leaving ESPN last summer. She\u2019s hosting podcasts and working for Stocktwits, contributing at National Public Radio, and serving as a fill-in anchor for Nexstar-owned WGN-TV in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Big Ten Network should prove a good fit for Steele, a University of Illinois grad who has spent much of her career based in the Midwest.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is something really special for me about getting to cover a conference that you literally grew up with and graduated from\u2013while staying here in Chicago which is my hometown. So it\u2019s great. This checks a lot of boxes for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former ESPN anchor Michele Steele is returning to sports media. After 14 years at the Worldwide Leader, Steele…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16512,88,244142,92],"class_list":["post-547591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-big-ten-network","tag-entertainment","tag-michele-steele","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}