Jason Jackson (born May 12, 1972) is an American sportscaster and writer. He worked for

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th ...

from 1995 until 2002 for sending inappropriate messages to a female co-worker. best known as the host of ''

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''. Jason is currently the TV Host/Courtside Reporter for the

Miami Heat The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami. The Heat compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The club plays its home games at FT ...

on FOX Sports Florida/Sun Sports and is a talk show co-host/analyst on

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. In 2003, he hosted his own

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show in Hartford, Connecticut, called ''The Jax Show'', and in September 2007, he returned to hosting The Jax Show weekday afternoons on WQAM in Miami. He currently works as a broadcaster for the

. From January through October 2012, ''The Jax Show'' reappeared in the afternoons from 1-3 PM on the Miami Heat's flagship station WAXY. Kelly Dwyer of SI.com wrote in his 2006 "NBA Announcers Report Card" that Jason Jackson might be the best side-line reporter in the business. Jackson graduated from

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in 1994, where he had served as a resident advisor at Bromfield Hall and as President of the Undergraduate Student Government.

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