Kevin Negandhi will not be probably the most controversial sports activities analyst at ESPN — nobody’s heard him slam executives on air or recommend he wants a better wage — however he’s making a reputation for himself as one of many show-iest. There could also be no format or program that Negandhi can’t deal with.

Sure, he’s finest identified for co-anchoring the 6 p.m. version of “Sports activities Middle,” however Negandhi has additionally develop into an anticipated face throughout ESPN’s protection of the Rose Bowl parade; the Particular Olympics; the NBA Draft,; and faculty soccer video games on Disney sibling ABC.

He could get the possibility to attempt his hand at a couple of extra issues in months to return. ESPN has prolonged Negandhi’s contract in order that he’ll have a good time greater than 20 years on the Disney sports-media big beneath his subsequent time period. “We’re very completely satisfied to have Kevin remaining with ESPN for years to return,” mentioned Norby Williamson, government editor and head of occasion and studio manufacturing at ESPN, in a press release. “He has contributed to our success in so many areas — ‘Sports activities Middle,’ faculty soccer, NBA Draft, and extra — and he’s a consummate skilled in every part he touches.”

Negandhi says he’s at all times been open to making an attempt new issues, citing “that concern of by no means saying ‘what if’ once you look again at life. Once I was in faculty, I mentioned ‘sure’” to each provide that got here his manner, whether or not it meant working on the college paper or promoting sportswear at retail. Over time at ESPN, he has additionally participated in “Baseball Tonight,” “Exterior the Traces,” “School Soccer Dwell” and the Little League World Collection. His new contract comes just a little greater than two years after ESPN prolonged that of his “Sports activities Middle” anchor, Elle Duncan.

He takes his Particular Olympics gig significantly severely, realizing that “we will share unimaginable tales of people that have been missed and denied the chance to principally have the possibility to compete,” Negandhi says in an interview. “That’s what all of us need. All we wish is to be included.”

It’s a subject he’s significantly delicate to, being one of many few nationwide sportscasters of Indian-American descent. Negandhi has hosted the occasion on ESPN since 2015.

Earlier than becoming a member of ESPN, Negandhi labored as a sports activities director at WWSB in Sarasota, Fla. A local of Phoenixville, Pa., Negandhi graduated from Temple College in 1997, and in 2013 was inducted into Temple’s College of Media and Communications Corridor of Fame.

He’s curious about seeing how the rise of streaming will have an effect on the medium. “Streaming is broad open,”: he says. “I feel we’re within the early half fo seeing what sort of affect we will have.”

Regardless of the task, Neghandi says he needs to do his finest, significantly now that’s his deal has been renewed. “The place I’m at, I simply wish to proceed to get higher day by day, make good TV, give followers one thing to recollect and be ok with, and inform them and be ok with it.”