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Dana Jacobson is the anchor on the 6 p.m. edition of SportsCenter. She is the co-host of ESPN2's live national morning show First Take, which airs weekdays at 10 a.m. She also takes part in the "1st and 10" segments, featuring veteran sports journalist Skip Bayless and other noted columnists attacking the ten biggest sports stories of the day in multiple segments throughout ESPN.[CR-LF][CR-LF]After several years as a Northern California broadcast journalist, she joined ESPN in December 2002. She landed her first television job in Traverse City, Mich., at WPBN/WTOM-TV, where she spent two years as a fill-in news anchor, producer and editor. During her career, she has worked as a sports anchor at KXTV-TV in Sacramento, Calif., where she was also the host for Red Zone. She has served as a sports reporter for the station?s post -Monday Night Football Show and as co-host of NBA Insiders, a weekly two-hour radio show for the Sacramento Kings flagship station, KHTK-AM.[CR-LF][CR-LF]While at KXTV-TV, she won two regional awards including the Edward R. Murrow Award (2000) and the National Headliner Award (1998) for sports reporting. She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a B.A. in English and communication. She has served as XCenter host for both the Summer X Games in Los Angeles and the Winter X Games in Aspen. In addition, she hosted the first ESPY Awards Red Carpet Show on ESPN360.com. Other duties have included sideline reporting for ESPN?s coverage of NBA Sunday night games and guest hosting for ?The Dan Patrick Show? on ESPN Radio.

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