J.A. Adande
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[edit] Biography
Joshua Ade Adande (born October 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA) is a sports columnist for The Los Angeles Times and a panelist for ESPN's Around The Horn. He is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Adande received his bachelor of science degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Adande first started work at The Los Angeles Times as an intern with the Westside edition in 1990. He continued his internships at The San Bernardino Sun and The Washington Post in 1991 and The Miami Herald in 1992.
He became a full-time staff writer for The Chicago Sun-Times, where he covered Illinois football and basketball and the Chicago Bulls. In 1994, he returned to The Washington Post as a staff writer where he covered college football, college basketball and the Washington Bullets (as they were known then).
In 1997, he returned to The Los Angeles Times to become a sports columnist for the paper's Orange County edition. In 1998 his column began running in all editions.
Adande's assignments at The Los Angeles Times have included the Olympic Games, Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, the NBA, Major League Baseball and World Cup 2006.
As a panelist for Around The Horn, Adande is sometimes known as "Top Cat Killer" for his numerous Showdown victories over Tim Cowlishaw of The Dallas Morning News. (Cowlishaw is sometimes nicknamed "Top Cat" based off of his initials.) Adande is also known for the "J.A. Adande Lounge", which he mentions any time during his "Face Time", which is his 20 to 30 second speech after a victory on the show.
Adande left Around the Horn for a short time in June and July 2006 to cover the World Cup in Germany, amid concern from other sportswriters due to ongoing European racism and remaining Fascist sentiments in Germany.
