Jennifer Hale

Jennifer Hale (born February 28, 1978) is an American journalist working for Fox Sports as an NFL sideline reporter where she is currently paired with Chris Myers and Robert Smith. She also covers NBA's New Orleans Pelicans for Bally Sports New Orleans and also covers college football for Fox Sports. She was a substitute host on the Fox Sports 1 shows Skip and Shannon: Undisputed and Lock It In before becoming the full-time moderator for Undisputed in 2022 to 2023. She has covered The Basketball Tournament for ESPN as well as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. She also worked as a sideline reporter for TNT's coverage of the first round of the 2017 NBA playoffs. Early life and education Hale is a native of New Orleans, and was raised in Alabama. She graduated from Louisiana State University with honors where she was captain of the cheerleading squad, homecoming queen, and Miss LSU. Hale interned for CNN in their Washington D.C. bureau. She also got her Master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and spent time in Germany on a fellowship to study the US–Germany relationship after the fall of Communism. Career Hale started her journalism career covering politics for KNOE-TV, a station in Monroe, Louisiana, which sent her to Baton Rouge as their capitol correspondent, then she went to WAFB, also in Baton Rouge. When she was a weekend anchor and reporter for WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote a book called Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt in 2009. She also was a fill-in correspondent for MSNBC during her time in Birmingham. Prior to her Fox Sports career, she was an anchor on WVUE-DT's morning show in New Orleans. She received a call from some friends from LSU to interview former athletes and special guests at LSU football games to put on their website. This and her work with the New Orleans Saints led to people in the Saints organization to recommend Hale to Fox Sports. She added the Pelicans job a year later. She worked as a sideline reporter for TNT's coverage of the first round of the 2017 NBA Playoffs. During the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Hale filled in for Jenny Taft as moderator for Skip and Shannon: Undisputed. She took over as moderator after Taft left the show in February 2022 and was officially named to the position in August 2022. When Undisputed was retooled in August 2023, Hale wasn't a part of the new format.