Christine Brennan is an American sports columnist for USA Today and a commentator on ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and NPR. Her figure skating books, Edge of Glory on the race for Olympic gold and Inside Edge on the sport's inner world, are the work most readers know her for. In 1981 she became the first female sports reporter at the Miami Herald, and in 1985 the first woman on the Washington Post's Redskins beat. She was the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media in 1988 and won the 2020 Red Smith Award.
