David Aldridge Biography
David Aldridge is a sports journalist with The Athletic in the United States. He formerly worked as a reporter for Turner Sports, where he contributed to their NBA and MLB coverage. Aldridge has also written and contributed to ESPN, NBA TV, NBA.com, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and TBD.
How old is David Aldridge?- Age
He is 59 years old as of February 2023. David was born on 10 February 1965, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
David Aldridge Education
He is a graduate of DeMatha Catholic High School and American University
David Aldridge Height
He stands at a height of 6′ (1.83 m) tall.
David Aldridge Career
He spent nine years working as a writer for The Washington Post. During that period, Aldridge worked as a beat writer for the Georgetown basketball team, the Washington Bullets, and the Washington Redskins. He also covered the Summer Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, national college basketball and football, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup playoffs, the World Series, the Indianapolis 500, and the United States Open tennis tournaments. He enjoys watching American University men’s basketball.Before joining TNT in 2004, Aldridge worked for ESPN for eight years, largely covering the NBA but also doing some NFL coverage. He contributed to ESPN Radio and wrote for ESPN.com. Aldridge featured frequently on SportsCenter, NBA 2 Night (now NBA Fastbreak), and NBA Today.
Aldridge did “Sunday Conversations” conversations with LeBron James, Allen Iverson, Shaquille O’Neal, Karl Malone, and many more for SportsCenter. In 2003 and 2004, he worked as an NBA sideline reporter for both ABC and ESPN. From 2004 until 2008, Aldridge was a reporter and columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he covered the National Football League and the National Basketball Association. He was a member of the Inquirer team that got a second-place prize from the Society of Professional Journalists, Greater Philadelphia Chapter for the series “The Future of Pro Sports” in 2005. He was supposed to be one of dozens of people laid off at the paper in January 2007, but he was kept.
During the regular season, All-Star Weekend, and the NBA playoffs, he worked as a “Insider” for TNT’s Inside the NBA and provided sideline reporting. He was also a co-host of NBA TV’s weekly show The Beat and a pundit for other NBA on TNT events. He has served as a sideline reporter for college football games and Major League Baseball divisional series broadcasts on television. Aldridge co-hosted The Tony Kornheiser Show on Washington Post Radio and afterwards WWWT in Washington, D.C. from February 2007 to June 2008. In September 2009, he reappeared as a part-time co-host of WTEM’s current incarnation. He is a frequent co-host on the show as of 2016.
David Aldridge Net Worth
David has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.