Sage Steele

Sage Steele
Steele at the 10th Annual CoachArt Gala Fundraiser on October 16, 2014
Born	Sage Marie Steele (1972-11-28) November 28, 1972 (age 44) Panama Canal Zone
Education	Indiana University-Bloomington
Occupation	Sportscaster
Notable credit(s)	SportsCenter
Title	Host, reporter
Spouse(s)	Jonathan Bailey (m.1999)
Children	3

Sage Marie Steele (born November 28, 1972) is an American television anchor who is the lead host of SportsCenter On The Road. She formerly hosted the Saturday and Sunday editions of NBA Countdown on ABC for four seasons, ending in 2017. For five years prior to the NBA assignment, Steele was a full-time host of SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship show, and had previously contributed to ESPN First Take, Mike & Mike in the Morning, and SportsNation. Steele hosted SportsCenter's daytime coverage of the NBA Finals in 2012 and 2013.

Sage Steele was born in 1972, of African-American and Irish/Italian descent into an American Army family living in the Panama Canal Zone. The Army stationed Steele's family in several different states and countries, including Greece and Belgium, before moving back stateside to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1984 for her seventh grade year. After attending Thomas B. Doherty High School in Colorado Springs for two years, she moved to Carmel, Indiana, and attended Carmel High School as a senior, graduating in 1990.

She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sports communication. Exactly 20 years later, she was the commencement speaker at the 2015 Indiana University undergraduate commencement, which she considers the greatest honor of her career.