Kate Longworth is a reporter for

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covering the

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since April 2015.

Career

After graduating from college, Longworth served from 2001 to 2002 as the media relations director for Major League Baseball's

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. She was a sideline reporter for college football for the

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(The Mtn.) and the

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. From 2003 to 2005, Longworth worked for Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic. She worked as a producer and associate producer, covering sports news in the

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area. Longworth contributed to both ''O’s All Access'', a program focused on the

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, and ''SportsNite'', a nightly sports show. Longworth was the first female sports anchor/reporter at

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(CBS) in

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. From 2008 to 2015 Longworth was a game reporter for the

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, host of ''All A’s'', and a reporter for ''Raiders Postgame Live'', at

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in San Francisco. She was also an anchor/reporter for ''SportsNet Central'', and a game reporter for the

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and

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. She joined the network in June 2008.

Education and personal life

Longworth received her B.A. in Journalism from the

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, where she was an assistant sports editor and writer for the school's student newspaper, the

Arizona Daily Wildcat The ''Arizona Daily Wildcat'' is a student newspaper serving the University of Arizona. It was founded in 1899 as the ''Sage Green and Silver.'' Previous names include ''Arizona Weekly Life'', ''University Life'', ''Arizona Life'' and ''Arizona ...

.Longworth, Kate
"Wildcat Online Sports: The man behind the noise"
17 February 2000, Retrieved 7 April 2019 She lives with her husband Brian.

References

External links

CSN Bay Area Bio

Kate Longworth’s Blog Archive
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