David Aldridge (born February 10, 1965 in Washington, D.C.) is a reporter for the Turner television networks TNT and TBS.
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Biography
Education and early career
Aldridge is a graduate of DeMatha Catholic High School and American University and worked as a writer for The Washington Post, where he spent nine years. During that time Aldridge was a beat writer covering Georgetown University basketball, the Washington Bullets and Washington Redskins. He also covered the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, national college basketball and football, the Super Bowl, Stanley Cup playoffs, the World Series, the Indianapolis 500 and the U.S. Open tennis championships.
ESPN
Before joining TNT in 2004, Aldridge reported for ESPN for eight years, primarily covering the NBA while occasionally doing National Football League pieces. He wrote for ESPN.com and contributed to ESPN Radio. Aldridge frequently appeared on SportsCenter as well as "NBA 2 Night" (now NBA Fastbreak) and "NBA Today." Aldridge did "Sunday Conversations" with LeBron James, Allen Iverson, Shaquille O'Neal, Karl Malone and many others. He worked as an NBA sideline reporter both for ABC and ESPN in 2003 and 2004.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Aldridge worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2004 to 2008, covering the National Football League and National Basketball Association as a reporter and columnist. He was part of the Inquirer team that received a second-place award for the series "The Future of Pro Sports" in 2005 from the Society of Professional Journalists, Greater Philadelphia Chapter. He was initially scheduled to be one of dozens laid off at the paper in January 2007[1], but was retained with a handful of others.
Turner Sports
He works as the "Insider" for TNT's Inside the NBA and does sideline reporting work during the regular season, All-Star Weekend and the NBA Playoffs. He is also co-host of the weekly show "The Beat" on NBA-TV, and is a commentator for other NBA on TNT features. Aldridge also writes for NBA.com. He worked the University of Arizona-Brigham Young college football game on Sept. 2, 2006, and the Washington-Oregon game on Nov. 4, 2006 for TBS as a sideline reporter with play-by-play man Chip Caray and analyst Tom Ramsey. He has worked as a sideline reporter during the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Major League Baseball Division Series for TBS.
The Tony Kornheiser Show
From February 2007 through June 2008, he appeared on The Tony Kornheiser Show on Washington Post Radio and later WWWT in Washington D.C. as co-host. He has since returned as co-host of the new incarnation on WTEM in September 2009.
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External links
Template:NBA on TNT
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