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Exclusive | Adam Amin, rising ESPN star, bolts for Fox Sports
One of the up-and-coming play-by-players in sportscasting, Adam Amin, is leaving ESPN for Fox Sports, The Post has learned. Sources said Amin and Fox are finalizing a deal that will have him call N…
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Sources said Amin and Fox are finalizing a deal that will have him call NFL or college football, as well as Major League Baseball. Amin, 33, could also do some college basketball.
Amin had moved up the ESPN ranks after joining it as a play-by-player at 24 in 2011. He was on Thursday Night college football, the women’s Final Four and also called NBA and MLB games. In 2016, just shy of his 30th birthday, ESPN said he was the youngest ever to call a New Year’s Day Big Six game when he did the radio call of the Fiesta Bowl.
Fox feels it has added young depth behind Joe Buck, Kevin Burkhardt and Gus Johnson with Amin joining 32-year-old Joe Davis in its stable.
Fox Sports declined comment.
On the NFL, the network is still figuring out its No. 2 analyst position after Charles Davis left for the same spot with CBS.
First Things First: Another ESPNer is leaving for Fox Sports, according to sources. Emmanuel Acho, 29, will be a part of the newly repackaged FS1 morning show, “First Things First.” Acho, who played college ball at Texas and had a stint in the NFL, will join Jenna Wolfe, Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes.
Will Cain, an ESPN talk show host, is also expected to exit for Fox, but Cain is going to Fox Nation and Fox News. The website Outkick said a deal was close with Acho and FS1.
