Clinton Yates will bring his unique take on sports in a fun, entertaining way, and will keep the audience up to date on all the breaking news as it happens. He'll be joined by many of his ESPN friends as they cover all the angles of the sports world.

About Clinton Yates

Clinton Yates is a columnist, television commentator and host for ESPN. He joined the company in February 2016 as a member of the editorial team that launched Andscape, the Black multimedia content studio formerly known as The Undefeated.

Yates has done a variety of critically acclaimed multiplatform storytelling at ESPN. In 2018, he hosted “Rickey Won’t Quit,” a 30 for 30 podcast about Rickey Henderson’s attempt at a comeback in Major League Baseball. In 2022, he launched the YouTube series Threads, which breaks down the histories of sports uniforms. In 2024, his story about the University of Virginia football team’s return to normalcy following a shooting tragedy was an APSE finalist for long feature.

Prior to ESPN, Yates worked for The Washington Post for nine years where he covered local news, sports, politics, pop culture and more. He started as a local news editor in May 2007 for “Express,” the free daily focused on dining, music, movies, arts, fitness, shopping and more in the Washington D.C. area. He eventually moved to Metro, and finally Sports where he wrote for The Post’s popular “DC Sports Bog”. Yates also worked at WTOP News Radio as a commentator on an array of topics about the Washington, D.C., metro area from politics to pop culture. His weekday morning commentaries – “My Take” on WTOP News – made him one of the unique voices of his generation in the District.