David Aldridge (born )
Biography
Education and early career
Aldridge was born in Washington, D.C.
He 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 the Washington Redskins. He also covered the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, national college basketball and
college football, the
Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup playoffs, the
World Series, the Indianapolis 500, and the U.S. Open tennis championships. He is a fan of American University men's basketball.
ESPN
Before joining TNT in 2004, Aldridge reported for ESPN for eight years, primarily covering the NBA while occasionally doing NFL 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 conducted interviews for the
SportsCenter "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,
[ blogs.philly.com ] but was retained.
Turner Sports
He worked as the "Insider" for TNT's
Inside the NBA and did sideline reporting work during the regular season, All-Star Weekend and the
NBA playoffs. He was also co-host of the weekly show
The Beat on
NBA TV, and was a commentator for other
NBA on TNT features. He also worked as a sideline reporter for television broadcasts of college football games and the Major League Baseball divisional series.
The Tony Kornheiser Show
From February 2007 through June 2008, Aldridge appeared on
The Tony Kornheiser Show on Washington Post Radio and later
WWWT in Washington, D.C. as co-host. He returned as sometime co-host of the latest incarnation on
WTEM in September 2009. As of 2016, he is a regular co-host on the show.
The Athletic
In late 2018, Aldridge left Turner Sports to join the staff of
The Athletic as a writer.
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