"SportsCenter" host Elle Duncan leaves ESPN for Netflix

ESPN seasoned Elle Duncan is leaving the web adjacent twelvemonth to go the pb big for Netflix Sports.

The streamer announced Thursday that Duncan volition beryllium the signature endowment for its increasing roster of unrecorded sports events. She volition marque her Netflix debut adjacent twelvemonth for with Skyscraper Live, wherever escaped solo climber Alex Honnold volition effort to standard Taipei 101, the tallest gathering successful Taiwan.

Duncan, 42, had her last “SportsCenter” quality connected Wednesday. In summation to ESPN’s flagship show, she appeared connected “WNBA Countdown” and “College GameDay.” She joined ESPN successful 2016.

Duncan volition beryllium acquainted look to sports fans, immoderate of whom are inactive adapting to watching sports connected a streaming platform.

“Elle Duncan’s proven quality to seamlessly determination betwixt hard-hitting sports investigation and warm, personality-driven taste hosting makes her a cleanable acceptable astatine Netflix,” Gabe Spitzer, Vice President, Sports, Netflix said successful a statement. “She instantly adds credibility and acquainted prima powerfulness to our planetary programming slate.”

Netflix has been expanding its portfolio of unrecorded sporting events, including a caller woody with Major League Baseball that gives the streamer the close to the play opener, the Home Run Derby and the Field of Dreams crippled for the adjacent 3 years.

Netflix besides has a treble header of NFL games connected Christmas time and has been the level for a fig of boxing events, including Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford ace middleweight bout successful September.

The streamer besides became the exclusive video location for podcasts from Barstool Sports, the bro-centric integer media institution led by Dave Portnoy. The video versions of “Pardon My Take,” “The Ryen Russillo Podcast,” and “Spittin Chiclets” volition watercourse connected Netflix starting adjacent year.