Education
Medill School of Journalism.
Medill School of Journalism.
Nichols also appears on National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament broadcasts on Columbia Broadcasting System, sometimes paired with Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery. Nichols has hosted Unguarded with Rachel Nichols on Cable News Network since October 2013. The program was changed from a regular series to occasional special in October 2014.
Sports Illustrated has called Nichols "the country"s most impactful and prominent female sports journalist." She earned widespread praise for her tough questioning of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in the wake of the Ray Rice scandal and for confronting boxer Floyd Mayweather on his history of domestic violence.
Nichols previously worked for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and was a regular part of SportsCenter, Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown, as well as a regular on the network"s NFL and National Basketball Association coverage. Nichols was also a correspondent for East:60 and worked as the sideline reporter on a number of Monday Night Football broadcasts.
Prior to her time at Entertainment and Sports Programming Network she worked for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (1995–1996) and Washington Post (1996–2004), where she covered the National Hockey League"s Capitals. Nichols was born Rachel Michele Alexander.
She is a 1991 graduate of Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland and graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1995.
She has been named one of Esquire"s "Women We Love" and one of The Hollywood Reporter"s "10 Most Powerful Voices in Sports Media." She was also named to Sports Illustrated"s "Twitter 100" in 2013 and 2014 and to Sports Illustrated "MMQB 100.".