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Armen Keteyian
Armen Keteyian (born March 6, 1953) is an American television journalist and author of 13 non-fiction books, including six New York Times bestsellers. Most recently he was the anchor and an executive producer for The Athletic. Previously he spent 12 years as a network television correspondent for CBS News where he also served as a contributing correspondent to 60 Minutes. Keteyian is an 11-time Emmy award winner.
Keteyian was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is of Armenian descent. Keteyian is a 1971 graduate of Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and graduated cum laude from San Diego State University with a BA degree in journalism in 1976.
Keteyian began his journalism career as a sports and feature writer in San Diego, freelancing for The San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Magazine (1980–1982) after spending two years at the Times-Advocate in Escondido (1978–1980). In June 1982 he was hired as a reporter for Sports Illustrated in New York (1982–1989), where he specialized in investigations. While there, he reported on subjects including corruption in college football and basketball, sports gambling in America, point-shaving scandals and the widening use of steroids in professional and amateur sports.
Keteyian was named a full-time correspondent for Showtime's 60 Minutes Sports, a monthly sports magazine show beginning in January 2013. The show completed a four-year run in March 2017 after more than 50 episodes. Prior to that he was CBS News' chief investigative correspondent for seven years (began March 2006), after spending nine years as a sportscaster for HBO and CBS Sports.
Prior to joining ABC, discussed below, Keteyian served as a reporter and producer for NBC Sports. He can be seen giving notable interviews at the 1988 Summer Olympic games in Seoul, notably following the Women's 4x100 Meter Freestyle Relay interviewing the American bronze medalists regarding their very competitive race against the gold medal East German (GDR) team, Holland silver.
He joined ABC News in New York City as a network correspondent in September 1989 and for eight years reported on hard-edged and issue-related sports stories for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. He has written or co-written 13 books, including New York Times best sellers, "Tiger Woods," "The System", an inside look at big-time college football and Why You Crying?, the autobiography of actor/comedian George Lopez; Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA, a critically acclaimed account of the rise of the NBA under Commissioner David Stern; and the New York Times best seller Raw Recruits.
Keteyian won a Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Award for a 1993 ABC News report on the landmark Title IX battle at Brown University. He also won 1993 and 1994 Emmy Awards in Sports Journalism and Overall Achievement for his reporting for ESPN’s Outside the Lines series.
Keteyian joined CBS Sports as a special-features reporter in December 1997. Keteyian was a sideline reporter for the Network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship from 1998 to 2005 and annually contributed reports on key NCAA issues and features on teams and players during CBS Sports' Final Four broadcasts.
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Armen Keteyian
Armen Keteyian (born March 6, 1953) is an American television journalist and author of 13 non-fiction books, including six New York Times bestsellers. Most recently he was the anchor and an executive producer for The Athletic. Previously he spent 12 years as a network television correspondent for CBS News where he also served as a contributing correspondent to 60 Minutes. Keteyian is an 11-time Emmy award winner.
Keteyian was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is of Armenian descent. Keteyian is a 1971 graduate of Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and graduated cum laude from San Diego State University with a BA degree in journalism in 1976.
Keteyian began his journalism career as a sports and feature writer in San Diego, freelancing for The San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Magazine (1980–1982) after spending two years at the Times-Advocate in Escondido (1978–1980). In June 1982 he was hired as a reporter for Sports Illustrated in New York (1982–1989), where he specialized in investigations. While there, he reported on subjects including corruption in college football and basketball, sports gambling in America, point-shaving scandals and the widening use of steroids in professional and amateur sports.
Keteyian was named a full-time correspondent for Showtime's 60 Minutes Sports, a monthly sports magazine show beginning in January 2013. The show completed a four-year run in March 2017 after more than 50 episodes. Prior to that he was CBS News' chief investigative correspondent for seven years (began March 2006), after spending nine years as a sportscaster for HBO and CBS Sports.
Prior to joining ABC, discussed below, Keteyian served as a reporter and producer for NBC Sports. He can be seen giving notable interviews at the 1988 Summer Olympic games in Seoul, notably following the Women's 4x100 Meter Freestyle Relay interviewing the American bronze medalists regarding their very competitive race against the gold medal East German (GDR) team, Holland silver.
He joined ABC News in New York City as a network correspondent in September 1989 and for eight years reported on hard-edged and issue-related sports stories for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. He has written or co-written 13 books, including New York Times best sellers, "Tiger Woods," "The System", an inside look at big-time college football and Why You Crying?, the autobiography of actor/comedian George Lopez; Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA, a critically acclaimed account of the rise of the NBA under Commissioner David Stern; and the New York Times best seller Raw Recruits.
Keteyian won a Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Award for a 1993 ABC News report on the landmark Title IX battle at Brown University. He also won 1993 and 1994 Emmy Awards in Sports Journalism and Overall Achievement for his reporting for ESPN’s Outside the Lines series.
Keteyian joined CBS Sports as a special-features reporter in December 1997. Keteyian was a sideline reporter for the Network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship from 1998 to 2005 and annually contributed reports on key NCAA issues and features on teams and players during CBS Sports' Final Four broadcasts.