Dari Nowkhah is a host and anchor on SEC Network, regularly appearing on SEC Now throughout the week, including Saturday evenings during the college football season. He also serves as the host for Saturday Football Final and is joined by Chris Doering and Benjamin Watson each Saturday evening during the football season. Additionally, he calls play-by-play for men’s basketball and baseball.

Dari Nowkhah joined ESPN in June 2004 as an ESPNEWS anchor, and in August 2011 was named the host of ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network previously based out of ESPN’s studios in Charlotte, N.C. He also served as a SportsCenter anchor and host of shows including Baseball Tonight and College Football Live.

Before joining ESPN, Nowkhah worked from 2002-04 as a sports anchor and reporter at KOTV, a CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Okla. Previously he served two years as sports anchor and reporter at KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Neb.

Nowkhah began his career in Kalispell, Mont., where he was sports director at KCFW-TV for two years. While there, he received a First Place in Sports Reporting in the Pacific Northwest from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Nowkhah, a native of Tulsa, Okla, graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1998 with a degree in broadcast journalism. In 2013 he was recognized by his alma mater and named Young Professional of the Year by the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is married with three children.

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