Katherine Beth Nolan is an American sports television host known as Katie Nolan, most recently serving as a commentator for

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's ''

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'' and recently created short-form content at

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. She formerly hosted a weekly

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called ''Sports? With Katie Nolan'', ''Always Late with Katie Nolan'' on

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, and ''Garbage Time with Katie Nolan'' on

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. She won a

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in 2016 for ''Garbage Time'' and was nominated for another in 2019 and 2020 for ''Always Late''.

Early life

Nolan was raised in

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. In 1997, at age 10, Nolan won the gold medal in

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at the Junior Olympics. She graduated from Framingham High School in 2005, and earned a

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with a minor in

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from

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in 2009.

Career

In 2011, while bartending in Boston at the White Horse Tavern, Nolan started a blog called ''Bitches Can't Hang'', which focused on pop culture and news. At that time, Nolan also began working with '' Guyism'', part of the

Yardbarker network, where she produced and hosted the

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series ''Guyism Speed Round''. In her videos, she delivered a monologue of comedic and sarcastic one-liners in the style of ''

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''s ''

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''. In an interview with GQ in 2018, Nolan expressed regret for how ''Bitches Can't Hang'' and her "being mean about women" jump-started her career.

Fox Sports

In August 2013, Nolan joined

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as a digital correspondent for ''Crowd Goes Wild'', a sports/entertainment talk show hosted by

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. Nolan also hosted the FoxSports.com

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''No Filter with Katie Nolan''. A September 2014 video featuring commentary on the Ray Rice domestic violence incident was picked up by ''

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'' and received praise in multiple media outlets. Nolan appeared as a panelist on a January 2015 episode of '' The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore''. Nolan was formerly the host of the weekly Fox Sports 1 show ''Garbage Time with Katie Nolan'', which premiered on March 15, 2015. ''

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'' praised Nolan's April 12, 2015, piece, criticizing the blog posting called "How to land a husband at the Masters", which appeared on a fellow Fox reporter's blog. ''Garbage Time'' won a Sports Emmy for 'Outstanding Social TV Experience' on May 10, 2016. In September 2016, Nolan began hosting ''

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Presents'', airing on Fox Sports 1. NFL and Fox Sports 1 made a joint decision to choose Nolan as the new host. On February 23, 2017, it was announced that ''Garbage Time'' would either be retooled from its current format, or Fox Sports would find a new hosting vehicle for Nolan. After seven months without a show, Nolan left Fox Sports in September 2017.

ESPN

On October 4, 2017, ESPN announced the hiring of Nolan, who will appear across ESPN studio programming and have a digital presence. She made her debut as a guest panelist on ESPN's ''

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'' on October 19, 2017; she has since guest-hosted that show several times, and appeared on the sister radio show ''

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''. She has said she likes going on ''Highly Questionable''. In early November 2017, it was announced that Nolan would be doing a podcast with ESPN beginning in January in addition to a digital show later. In November, she began as one of the hosts of ''SportsCenter'' on Snapchat. In 2018, Nolan began hosting a weekly ESPN

, ''Sports? with Katie Nolan'' and in 2020 was shifted into a biweekly show. In September 2018, her

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series ''Always Late with Katie Nolan'' launched; a 'best of the year' episode aired on the main ABC network on December 30, 2018. In 2019, the show moved to

and the ESPN app, with Nolan citing that she and her staff could post more show clips to social media, as being confined to ESPN+ restricted the amount of the program which could be posted to free venues. ''Always Late'' was canceled in 2020. On September 29, 2021, Nolan announced her departure from ESPN.

Other work

In December 2015, Nolan teamed up with

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for a new web-based series of videos titled "Big Metal Bird", which explains some of the inner workings of various facets of United Airlines. The premiere episode debuted on December 15, 2015 and explained how United's

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operates. Future episodes are intended to address customer feedback that United has received. Nolan has appeared in three episodes of the Comedy Central program ''

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''. On October 18, 2016, she narrated the story of

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's campaign for rule changes in football due to the violence of the game in the early 1900s. On February 13, 2018, she narrated the story of feminist icon

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. On January 30, 2019, she talked about the

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involving the fixing of the

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. Nolan is also the former

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holder for most donuts stacked in a tower while blindfolded (seven), doing so on the November 7, 2018 episode of ''Always Late''. She joined

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in time for the

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, which began on February 3, 2022. Nolan joined the broadcast team for Apple TV's ''

'' starting in April 2022 in a one season experiment.

References

External links

*
Garbage Time with Katie Nolan Website
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