Bob Holtzman

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Bob Holtzman (born 1971) is a television bureau-reporter for ESPN located in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. He contributes to stories on ESPN shows such as SportsCenter , [1] Outside the Lines , [2] Sunday NFL Countdown , [3] and Baseball Tonight . [4]

Before joining ESPN in November 2000, he was a reporter at WCPO in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1996 to 2000. [5] [4] Prior to that, he served in a similar role at KCRA in Sacramento, California and KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [4]

Holtzman is a 1993 graduate of the University of Kansas with a degrees in journalism and psychology. [4] He is also a certified meteorologist.

Holtzman was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but grew up in San Diego, California. He currently resides near Florence, Kentucky.

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