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January 7, 2011

Ricardo Puig Joins the Network’s Flagship News Program

ESPN Deportes announced Ricardo Puig as the latest anchor to join SportsCenter, the network’s flagship sports news program. He will be making his debut on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 11 p.m. EST.

“Ricardo’s vast knowledge and experience in sports will provide valuable insight to the show,” said Rodolfo Martínez, Vice President of Production for ESPN International and ESPN Deportes. “His great personality and passion for sports will sure resonate with our sport fans who will continue to be informed and entertained by a great group of anchors.  We look forward to Ricardo joining our team of ESPN Deportes, ESPN Dos and ESPN Latin America.”  

“I am very excited to return to the ESPN Deportes team. It has been great to reconnect with so many friends and colleagues,” said Puig. “SportsCenter offers viewers top-notch sports news coverage and it is great to be able to be part of the show. I am grateful for this new opportunity. I look forward to start working and connecting with the ESPN viewers.”

Puig was born in Mexico where he began his sports career in 2000 as editor in chief at CNI Canal 40 in Mexico. For the past decade he has worked in both television and print publications covering sports news and games. He was the soccer co-editor at the Milenio/La Afición newspaper from 2003-2006 and later was the sports coordinator at the Excelsior newspaper until 2010. In television, Puig worked for ESPN as a reporter for Fútbol Picante, hosted Cadena 3 Sports Newscast, and co-hosted HBO’s Destino Deporte which aired in all of Latin America. For the past four years, Puig has also been a sports collaborator for Grupo Imagen.

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About ESPN Deportes

ESPN Deportes is the leading multimedia, Spanish-language sports brand dedicated to providing the widest variety of sports to the U.S. Hispanic sports fan via television, online, print, radio and wireless. Sports media assets include ESPN Deportes television which offers unparalleled Spanish-language sports programming, featuring more than 1,400 live and/or original hours of sports programming presented annually; ESPN Deportes Radio, the only around-the-clock Spanish-language sports radio network in the U.S., and currently available in 10 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic radio markets and also distributed on SIRIUS Satellite Radio; ESPN Deportes La Revista, the first general sports Spanish-language magazine in the U.S.; ESPNdeportes.com, the #1 Spanish-language sports Web site among Spanish-preferred fans in the U.S.; and ESPN Deportes Wireless, the brand’s  emerging business which offers Spanish-language sports content to fans to text message enabled phones.