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Basketball Analyst & Reporter
Doris Burke joined the ABC WNBA Broadcast team in 2004 as a basketball analyst on the network's coverage of the WNBA. A versatile basketball commentator who calls both men's and women's college and pro contests, she has also worked on ESPN basketball since March 1991. Currently she works a variety of ESPN assignments, including regular-season (since 1994) and NCAA Tournament (since 1995) women's basketball, regular-season (since 1999) and "Championship Week" (since 2001) men's basketball, ESPN Regional Television men's BIG EAST basketball contests (since 1996), WNBA games (since 1998), plus WNBA Draft and more. In 2003 she added sideline reporting duties on a select number of NBA telecasts.
In addition Burke serves as a WNBA analyst for the New York Liberty on MSG Network (since 1998), and as a women's college basketball analyst for CBS Sports (since 1998) and Westwood One Radio (since 2000).
Previously she worked as an analyst on regional coverage of BIG EAST and Atlantic 10 women's basketball on the New England Sports Network (NESN), Prime or SportsChannel (1990-2000). She also worked for the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Network (1999-2001), the MAAC Women's Basketball Network (1997-99) and ECAC men's and women's weekly telecasts (1995-97). She served as a play-by-play and color commentator for Providence College women's basketball (1990-97) and Providence College men's basketball with WPRO Radio (1992-95), and spent three years as a women's basketball analyst with the Penn State Television Network (1993-95). The first woman to do a Knicks radio/television broadcast (2000), she has been a frequent columnist for Basketball Times Magazine and Eastern Basketball Magazine.
In 2003 Burke was honored by USA Today with a Rudy Award as the Best New Face in Sports Television, and later by MultiChannel Magazine as a 'Wonder Woman' for 2004. In the spring of 2004, she was honored with induction into the Institute for International Sport Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame; in 2002 she'd been named a Sports Ethics Fellow by the Institute. Burke is an Advisory Board Member and contributing writer for the Center for Sports Parenting, a member of the Bob Cousy Humanitarian Fund Board of Directors, and serves on the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Directors.
A former basketball standout at Providence College who finished her career as the school and conference all-time assist leader (602), Burke also served as an assistant coach for her Alma mater for two years (1988-90) and in 2000 was inducted into the Providence College Hall of Fame.
Raised in Manasquan, NJ, Burke graduated from Providence College with a degree in Health Service Administration/Social Work and also earned her masters in Education at Providence. She is married with two children.