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Armen Keteyian


Armen Keteyian (born March 6, 1953) is an American television journalist and author. He is currently the lead correspondent for 60 Minutes Sports on Showtime and a contributing correspondent to 60 Minutes. In that capacity he has delivered thought-provoking stories on the Baylor sexual assault scandal, the systematic, state-sponsored doping of Russian Olympic athletes and Alabama head football coach Nick Saban.

Keteyian was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is of Armenian descent. Keteyian is a 1971 graduate of Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and graduated cum laude from San Diego State University with a BA degree in journalism in 1976.

Keteyian began his journalism career as a sports and feature writer in San Diego, freelancing for the San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Magazine (1980–82) after spending two years at the Times-Advocate in Escondido (1978–80). In June of 1982 he was hired as a reporter for Sports Illustrated in New York (1982–89), where he specialized in investigations. While there, he reported on subjects including corruption in college football and basketball, sports gambling in America, point shaving scandals and the widening use of steroids in professional and amateur sports.

An 11-time Emmy award winner, Keteyian was named a full-time correspondent for Showtime's 60 Minutes Sports, a monthly sports magazine show beginning in January 2013. Prior to that he was CBS News' chief investigative correspondent for seven years (began March 2006), after spending nine years as a sportscaster for HBO and CBS Sports.


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