Education
Michigan State University.
Michigan State University.
In June 2013, she replaced Jalen Rose on ESPN2"s Numbers Never Lie. Hill began her career as general assignment sports writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. From 1999 to 2005, she served as a sports writer with the Detroit Free Press, mainly covering Michigan State football and basketball.
While at the Free Press, she also covered the 2004 Summer Olympics and the National Basketball Association Playoffs.
Hill worked as a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel from 2005 to 2006. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
Hill joined Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in November 2006 as a national columnist on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com.
Hill also makes regular appearances on television, including SportsCenter and several Entertainment and Sports Programming Network programs, including Entertainment and Sports Programming Network First Take, Outside the Lincolnshire and The Sports Reporters. Starting the 2012 college football season, Hill can be seen on Friday nights as a sideline reporter with Carter Blackburn and Rod Gilmore.
She is now on the show His and Hers with co-host Michael Smith.
She received an honorable mention in the 2007 edition of The Best American Sports Writing. In 2014, she served as the grand marshal for the Michigan State University homecoming parade. Controversy
In an editorial describing why she could not support the Celtics, Hill wrote: "Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim.
lieutenant"s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.
Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics." The comments immediately generated a negative response from readers and that portion of the editorial was taken out shortly after the column was published. Hill was subsequently suspended for one week and she issued an apology through Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Later in 2009, Hill once again was reprimanded for her comments after comparing University of Kentucky Wildcats men"s basketball coach John Calipari to Charles Manson.
She later apologized to the university. In 2009, she also accused baseball player Sammy Sosa of being a racist for using skin creme that made his complexion lighter in an effort to hide his vitiligo.
Hill has also been criticized for taking unpopular or extreme stances, leading many to accuse her of inflating her Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com page hits by creating controversy.
A native of Detroit, Hill attended Mumford High School and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in journalism and a minor in Spanish.