Maria Taylor (sportscaster)

thumb Suzette Maria Taylor (born May 12, 1987) is an American sportscaster for NBC Sports. She has worked for ESPN and the SEC Network. Quotes I love that about music. When I listen to some of those first Elliott Smith records, I just go right back to that car, that Toyota Corolla I was driving, and the smell of it. It’s like, better than a picture, really. It’s more that Elliott Smith record as a whole. I don’t know why, it’s weird, but Either/Or is one that brings me back to Athens and to the Dunkin’ Donuts right next to my house. I can smell it. I remember when I first got this big cell phone, and I could plug it in in my car, and I just remember… everything about listening to that record incessantly, around that time. That was Athens, Georgia. I don’t even know what year, I think I was 23, so, forever ago. I love Southern people, and it drives me nuts when someone born and raised in LA suddenly has an accent and is writing country songs because they live in Nashville now. I’m proud to be a Southerner. But I love living here. A lot of my friends moved here around the same time, and that’s important to me. And I love being so close to the ocean and the desert and the mountains, all the possibilities. There’s still some kind of magic in big cities like LA and New York, and I like being near it. I’m so thankful for it, because I really did get to take that space and come back to these songs and make changes that I wouldn’t have otherwise. I feel like the record is so much stronger because of that. But also, I’m just not good at forcing things. These songs had to be finished until they were finished. I realized there was a lot of stress and unhappiness, just a lot of shit going on, and I think the music just wasn’t ready to fully come out yet. It was bottled up inside. But playing the drums felt great, because I was getting it all out in another way. Interview: Maria Taylor;By Chip Midnight on 9 April 2026 I definitely feel that when one story ends, a new one will begin. Just like the storybooks we read to our kids… none of them last forever. The beauty and the anxiety lies in the fact that there’s no way to know what the new story will look like. I think I needed to make something beautiful as things fell apart around me. I also feel like spending so much time playing drums and really getting into songs that were not my own helped me to gain new perspectives that I could put into these songs. “I Needed to Make Something Beautiful as Things Fell Apart”: Maria Taylor Finds Renewal in the Ruins on ‘Story’s End’;By Aileen Goos on April 1, 2026 External links Category:Women journalists from the United States Category:Sports journalists Category:Sports announcers Category:Living people Category:1987 births Category:African Americans Category:Women born in the 1980s