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Kara Henderson (born June 27, 1973) is an American sports media personality, most recently for the
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. At NFLN, Henderson provided in-depth interviews, pregame and postgame reports and sideline reports for a variety of shows across the network including '' NFL Total Access'', ''Around the League'', ''NFL GameDay Morning'' and ''NFL GameDay Final''. For the 2010 season, Henderson contributed on-site reports for both NFL Network and NFL.com for coverage of '' Thursday Night Football''. Henderson last appeared on NFLN in March 2012, with no explanation given on her absence. On Sunday, September 9, she confirmed that she had left broadcasting to get married and raise her son. She was replaced by Amber Theoharis. Kara graduated
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from
Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...
, where she majored in
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. Kara was formerly an anchor and
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for Fox Sports Net New England. She began her career as a production assistant at
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and later
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. Her on-air career began at
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in 1998 as the co-host of NESN's "Front Row". From 2000 to 2003, she worked at
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as a reporter. In the fall of 2012, Henderson married
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general manager Les Snead. She has a son Tate from a previous marriage along with a stepson, Logan, and stepdaughter, Cannon.


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