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Nick Mullins
Nick Mullins (born 31 January 1966) is a British journalist and sports commentator, primarily working on BT Sport's Premiership Rugby coverage. Early life Mullins began his career as a journalist with the ''Loughborough Trader'' and ''Loughborough Echo''. Commentary career Mullins joined the BBC in 1985 and moved to BBC Radio Sport in 1991. He was part of the ''Rugby Special'' team and covered Six Nations Championship, Premiership, Heineken Cup and Anglo-Welsh Cup rugby matches for the BBC. He also commentated at Wimbledon for Radio 5 Live. He has commentated at the Olympic Games since 1996. In 2010 Mullins left the BBC to commentate on ESPN's rugby coverage. Mullins was also ITV Sport's chief commentator at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand and 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he commentated on the final with Ben Kay and Lawrence Dallaglio. In 2013, Mullins moved to BT Sport following their acquisition of the Premiership Rugby rights and their subsequent takeover of ES ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Oldroyd
Eleanor Oldroyd (born in Bury, Lancashire, 2 June 1962) is a British sports broadcaster with BBC Radio. Early life Oldroyd was educated at Oxford High School and Girton College at Cambridge University. Broadcasting career Beginning her career in commercial radio, Oldroyd joined BBC Radio Shropshire as a Sports Producer in 1986 before moving to London in 1988. She worked at Newsbeat and then at BBC Sport, reporting and presenting on both Radio 5 and 5 Live. She first hosted the Sunday afternoon sports show in 1993. In 1995, she became the first female presenter of '' Sports Report'' (since it started in 1948) when she stood in for Ian Payne. She is a regular on 5 Live's ''Fighting Talk'' – known as the "First Lady of Fighting Talk" – and hosts several weekly 5 Live shows including Saturday Breakfast (with Chris Warburton), the evening 5 Live Sport programme and the Friday Sports Panel. She covers the Wimbledon tennis championships and was part of the ''Test Match Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |