Tim Kurkjian is a famous American author, journalist, and media personality who currently works for ESPN as a sports analyst. He is part of ESPN’s Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter shows and is a regular face on the Dan LeBatard Show with Dan Le Batard and Tony Kornheiser show with Tony Kornheiser.
He ventured into journalism as far back as his university days and because of his passion and dedication to the game of baseball, he joined ESPN at the age of 40 in 1998.
Tim Kurkjian Biography
Tim Kurkjian was born Timothy Bell Kurkjian on the 10th day of December 1956 in Bethesda, Maryland, US, to his father Badrig Jeff Kurkjian, a mathematician, and his mother Joyce Joy Kurkjian.
Tim’s father is a lover of sports, especially baseball; no wonder he instilled in him his love for both the game of baseball and statistics at a very tender age.
He attended Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda where he played both basketball and baseball for the school’s team.
Tim graduated from high school in1974 and was admitted into the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism in the same year. This is where Tim’s journalism career began. He covered high school sports for his hometown newspaper “The Montgomery Journal.”
In 1978, he graduated with a BA in journalism and took up writing with the Washington Post as a starter, and by 1981 he was promoted to a staff writer.
Is Tim Kurkjian Still Married?
Tim Kurkjian is happily married to his heartthrob Kathleen Patrick. The couple tied the knot on the 26th of November 1983.
Kathleen works as a lawyer. Their union is blessed with a daughter Kelly who is an artist and a son Jeff who just like his father is also a journalist. Both Jelly and Jeff are graduates of Syracuse University.
Similarly, the family lives together in Bethesda, Maryland. He shares a great life with his beautiful wife Kathy and their children Kelly and Jeff.
Tim Kurkjian has been married for 41 years now.
See Also: Rodney Peete Net Worth Biography Wife, Family, Career, Height, Weight, Other facts
Salary/Net worth
Credible financial and accounting internet sources have estimated Tim Kurkjian’s net worth to be $2 million as of July 2021. However, he is a senior correspondent and analyst and as such he receives an annual salary of $400,000 and $56,000 monthly from ESPN.
Besides, he also receives extra cash as a TV and radio sports pundit. And don’t forget he could be receiving royalties accruable from the sales and distribution of his authored books.
Here are 10 facts about Tim Kurkjian
1. He was raised in a family that love sports, especially baseball
Both of Tim’s older brothers were imbibed with the spirit of the same legacy by their father that they both played collegiate baseball for the Catholic University Cardinals and because of their successes and dedication to the game, they were both inducted into the school’s athletics hall of fame.
Tim started to build and nurture his love for the game when he began to play baseball, collecting baseball cards, playing tabletop baseball games, and reading anything that is related to the game of baseball at a very young age.
2. He is also a writer
Through the influence of his basketball coach who saw his talent in writing, Tim became a writer for the student newspaper “The Pitch” and the school’s yearbook “The Wind-up.” He was made the sports editor of The Pitch.
Tim Kurkjian was not just a regular journalist who covers and reports, he is also into book publishing. He has authored 3 different books already.
His first book release was in 2000, titled “America’s Game; his second is “Is This a Great Game, or what?: From A-Rod’s Heart to Zim’s Head- My 25 years in Baseball” (2007); and in 2016 he released “I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love.”
3. His wife is a lawyer
Kurkjian’s wife Kathleen is a lawyer. His cousin Stephen Kurkjian and Bob Kurkjian are both Pulitzer prize-winning journalists.
4. Kurkjian’s son is also a talk show host
Tim Kurkjian’s son Jeff worked as a host on a radio show titled Jeff & Aimee in the morning on KYCE radio in Las Vegas. His daughter Kelly is said to be a creative director at a marketing agency.
5. Tim Kurkjian cut MLB box score for over 20 seasons
It was reported that Kurkjian started the routine of cutting every Major League Baseball box score out of a newspaper and taped them into a spiral notebook daily on every day of the major baseball season from 1990 to 2010.
he spent 15 minutes per day for over 20 seasons. he stopped this task due to a lack of newspapers printing box scores.
6. Age
Tim Kurkjian is currently 68 years old.
7. Height, weight, and other body measurements
The veteran analyst and journalist stand 5 feet 4 inches tall. He is yet to reveal his exact weight and other body measurements
8. Tim Kurkjian is a grandfather
His daughter Kelly had her first child Carson Timothy on January 12, 2021. Kelly made her brother Jeff the godfather of her son. Jeff is also engaged to Emily Rios. Kurkjian will definitely be welcoming more grandchildren soon.
9. His older brothers were inducted into the hall of fame
Tim Kurkjian older brothers were baseball players for the Catholic university cardinals. They were both inducted into the school’s athletics hall of fame.
10. Career
Tim came to the realization that journalism would be the surest way to fulfill his childhood dream of making a living out of professional sports.
From 1981 to 1997, he worked with Baltimore News-American, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Sun, and Sports Illustrated. Subsequently, he accepted a job offer with ESPN in 1998 to work as a TV journalist and baseball writer.
He currently works as a writer for ESPN the magazine as well as the MLB analyst for ESPN “Baseball Tonight” and “Sports Center”.
Discussion about this post