Rhonda Glenn, who became the first woman to serve as a fulltime sportscaster for a national network when she worked as an anchor for Espn in 1981, has died. She was 68. Glenn had been battling cancer and died Thursday night in a hospital in Gainesville, Fla., the Associated Press reported. After Espn, she spent 17 years as a golf historian and manager of media operations for the U.S. Golf Association before retiring in May 2013. See more Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 “In addition to her many accomplishments, what we will miss most about Rhonda is her generosity
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- 2/14/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This story first appeared in the Aug. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. It has been nearly 40 years since the first female reporter was allowed into a professional sports locker room. Today, every major cable and broadcast sports division has multiple female reporters and anchors on its roster. But if they have cracked sports TV's glass ceiling -- Rhonda Glenn was the first woman to anchor Espn's iconic SportsCenter franchise in 1981, and CBS Sports anchor Lesley Visser is the only woman enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame -- they still are a minority of the voices covering big-ticket TV sports:
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- 8/14/2013
- by Marisa Guthrie
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Villages, Fla. -- Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who performed with the Rat Pack and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," has died at a central Florida hospital. She was 79.
Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday at the Villages Hospital north of Orlando following a battle with breast cancer and blood clots.
Stevens, a longtime South Florida resident, performed with Rat Pack members including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop. She also sang solo at venues like Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room in New York City.
During the Vietnam War era, Stevens performed for American soldiers in the war zone with Bob Hope's Uso tour.
According to a handout from friend Rhonda Glenn, Stevens was born Catherine Louise Stephens in Pittsburgh. Her family eventually moved to Cleveland, where a teenage...
Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday at the Villages Hospital north of Orlando following a battle with breast cancer and blood clots.
Stevens, a longtime South Florida resident, performed with Rat Pack members including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop. She also sang solo at venues like Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room in New York City.
During the Vietnam War era, Stevens performed for American soldiers in the war zone with Bob Hope's Uso tour.
According to a handout from friend Rhonda Glenn, Stevens was born Catherine Louise Stephens in Pittsburgh. Her family eventually moved to Cleveland, where a teenage...
- 12/30/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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