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Katherine Beth Nolan (born January 28, 1987)[1] is an American sports media personality and host. She formerly hosted a weekly ESPNpodcast called Sports? With Katie Nolan, Always Late with Katie Nolan on ESPN2, and Garbage Time with Katie Nolan on Fox Sports. She won a Sports Emmy Award in 2016 for Garbage Time and was nominated for another in 2019 and 2020 for Always Late.[2][3] She has been a commentator for Apple TV+'s Friday Night Baseball and created short-form content at NBC Sports.
In 2011, while bartending in Boston at the White Horse Tavern, Nolan started a blog called Bitches Can't Hang, which focused on pop culture and news.[10] At that time, Nolan also began working with Guyism, part of the Fox SportsYardbarker network, where she produced and hosted the YouTube series Guyism Speed Round. In her videos, she delivered a monologue of comedic and sarcastic one-liners in the style of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.[5] In an interview with GQ in 2018, Nolan expressed regret for how Bitches Can't Hang and her "being mean about women" jump-started her career.[5]
Nolan was formerly the host of the weekly Fox Sports 1 show Garbage Time with Katie Nolan, which premiered on March 15, 2015.[17]Deadspin praised Nolan's April 12, 2015 episode where she criticized the blog posting titled "How to land a husband at the Masters", which had appeared on a fellow Fox reporter's blog.[18]Garbage Time won a Sports Emmy for 'Outstanding Social TV Experience' on May 10, 2016.[19]
In September 2016, Nolan began hosting NFL Films Presents, airing on Fox Sports 1. NFL and Fox Sports 1 made a joint decision to choose Nolan as the new host.[20] She was the social media reporter for Super Bowl LI.
On February 23, 2017, it was announced that Garbage Time would either be retooled from its current format, or Fox Sports would find a new hosting vehicle for Nolan.[21] After seven months without a show, Nolan left Fox Sports in September 2017.[22]
ESPN
On October 4, 2017, ESPN announced the hiring of Nolan, who would appear across ESPN studio programming and have a digital presence.[23] She made her debut as a guest panelist on ESPN's Highly Questionable on October 19, 2017; she has since guest-hosted that show several times, and appeared on the sister radio show The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz.[24] She has said she likes going on Highly Questionable.[25]
In early November 2017, it was announced that Nolan would be doing a podcast with ESPN beginning in January in addition to a digital show later.[26] In November, she began as one of the hosts of SportsCenter on Snapchat.[27]
In 2018, Nolan began hosting a weekly ESPN podcast, Sports? with Katie Nolan and in 2020 was shifted into a biweekly show.[28] In September 2018, her ESPN+ series Always Late with Katie Nolan launched; a 'best of the year' episode aired on the main ABC network on December 30, 2018.[5][29] In 2019, the show moved to ESPN2 and the ESPN app, with Nolan citing that she and her staff could post more show clips to social media, as being confined to ESPN+ restricted the amount of the program which could be posted to free venues.[30]
Always Late was canceled in 2020.[31] On September 29, 2021, Nolan announced her departure from ESPN.[32]
Other work
In December 2015, Nolan teamed up with United Airlines for a new web-based series of videos titled "Big Metal Bird",[33] which explains some of the inner workings of various facets of United Airlines. The premiere episode debuted on December 15, 2015, and explained how United's baggage handling system operates. Future episodes are intended to address customer feedback that United has received.[34][needs update]
Nolan is also the former Guinness World Record holder for most donuts stacked in a tower while blindfolded (seven), doing so on the November 7, 2018 episode of Always Late.[37]
In December 2022, Nolan announced her engagement to comedian Dan Soder.[40][41] In 2025, she said they parent a dog, have not started planning their wedding but may in the near future, and do not see themselves having children.[42]