Marly Rivera is a
sportswriter
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and
reporter
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who currently works for
ESPN
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and
ESPN Deportes
ESPN Deportes (, ''ESPN Sports'') is an American multinational Spanish-language pay television sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (whi ...
, and is also a contributor to
ESPN Radio
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and
ESPN Deportes Radio
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.
Career
Rivera was a general assignment sportswriter and reporter at
ESPN Deportes
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Digital before being named a
New York Yankees
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beat writer. She is the second woman of color to have covered the Yankees as a beat, following in the footsteps of her mentor,
Claire Smith.
Prior to working at ESPN, Rivera was an editorial producer and writer at
Major League Baseball Advanced Media
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Robert Bowman, former president and CEO of MLBAM, indicated in ...
and a reporter and editor at
Univision
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Communications. She is currently the only Latina national baseball writer and commentator for
ESPN
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and ESPN Deportes and the only woman to have been a color commentator for ESPN Deportes Radio for
MLB
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's All Star Game, postseason, and
World Series
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broadcasts.
Rivera has been a guest contributor on Béisbol Esta Noche and
Sunday Night Baseball
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The games are preceded most weeks by the studio show ''Baseball Tonight: ...
in Spanish and English, in addition to
Outside the Lines
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The primary host of the show is ...
. She is also a frequent contributor to ESPN's flagship program,
SportsCenter
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, and was a guest panelist on the July 21–22, 2016 edition of ''
ESPN First Take
''First Take'' is an American sports talk television show on ESPN. Episodes air daily Monday through Friday, with the live episode airing from 10am ET until noon, with reruns from noon to 2pm ET on ESPN2 and from 2 to 4pm ET on ESPNews.
The sho ...
''. She was the host of the ''Max y Marly'' podcast alongside SportsCenter anchor
Max Bretos
Maximiliano Bretos is an American sports reporter and sports announcer, who is currently the play-by-play announcer for MLS broadcasts on Apple TV. He formerly hosted ESPN Major League Soccer and SportsCenter for ESPN as well as being the lead a ...
. She was also the lead reporter on the ESPN initiative known as “Béisbol Experience”, the most extensive cross-platform project ever done by the network on Latino MLB players living in the United States.
Rivera currently co-hosts the debate show ''Nación ESPN'' on
ESPN2
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ESPN2 was initially fo ...
alongside NBA Analyst and ESPN Los Angeles Radio host
Jorge Sedano
Jorge Sedano is an American sports broadcaster and talk show host. He began his career in 1999 and is currently a radio and television personality at ESPN.
Background
Jorge was born in New York and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Monsigno ...
.
On October 13, 2017, Rivera was named one of “The 30 Most Influential Hispanics in Sports” by
Sports Illustrated
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.
Personal life
Rivera is bilingual.
She was born and raised in
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
,
Puerto Rico
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, but moved to mainland United States as a teenager. Her parents, Ray and Elba, are from the small town of
Coamo
Coamo (, ) is a town and municipality founded in 1579 in the south-central region of Puerto Rico, located north of Santa Isabel; south of Orocovis and Barranquitas; east of Villalba and Juana Díaz; and west of Aibonito and Salinas. Coamo ...
.
Rivera has done philanthropic work to support her island of Puerto Rico after the impact of
Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Saffir–Simpson scale#Category 5, Category 5 Tropical cyclone, hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly Dominica, Saint Croix, and Puerto Rico. It is regarded as the wo ...
on September 20, 2017.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American sportswriters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
People from San Juan, Puerto Rico
Women sportswriters
American women sportswriters