About Kate Fagan

By Adam Zielonka

Fagan played basketball at the University of Colorado,where She majored in communication at Colorado and interned at “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” during the summer of 2003.

After a brief professional career playing in Ireland and the United States’ now-defunct National Women’s Basketball League, Fagan began stringing for the Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera as a sports reporter.

She spent 10 months at the Ellensburg (Wash.) Daily Record and almost two years at the Glens Falls (N.Y.) Post-Star before she was hired by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Fagan wrote an article for ESPN the Magazine in 2011 called “Unhealthy Climate,” and began regularly contributing to ESPN in 2012, from appearing on “Around the Horn” to working on the company’s Title IX 40th anniversary project.

Fagan still appears on “Around the Horn” as well as “Outside the Lines” and other ESPN programs.