Dari Nowkhah joined ESPN in June 2004 as an ESPNEWS anchor. He has since added SportsCenter anchor to his duties and is the host of ESPNEWS’ College Football Overdrive. In 2010, Nowkhah will host the SEC Studio show for the SEC Network, the regionally syndicated college sports package and part of the landmark 15-year agreement between ESPN, Inc., and the SEC.

Before joining ESPN, Nowkhah worked from 2002-04 as a sports anchor and reporter at KOTV, a CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Okla. Previously he served two years as sports anchor and reporter at KLKN-TB in Lincoln, Neb.

Nowkhah began his career in Kalispell, Mont., where he was sports director at KCFW-TV for two years. While there, he received a First Place in Sports Reporting in the Pacific Northwest from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Nowkhah graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1998 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.