Armen Keteyian is an Armenian American television journalist and author. Most recently he was the anchor and an executive producer for The Athletic. Previously he spent 12 years as a network television correspondent for CBS News where he also served as a contributing correspondent to 60 Minutes. Keteyian is an 11-time Emmy award winner.
Early life and career
Keteyian was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is of Armenian descent. Keteyian is a 1971 graduate of Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and graduated cum laude from San Diego State University with a BA degree in journalism in 1976. Keteyian began his journalism career as a sports and feature writer in San Diego, freelancing for The San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Magazine after spending two years at the Times-Advocate in Escondido. In June 1982 he was hired as a reporter for Sports Illustrated in New York, where he specialized in investigations. While there, he reported on subjects including corruption in college football and basketball, sports gambling in America, point-shaving scandals and the widening use of steroids in professional and amateur sports. Keteyian was named a full-time correspondent for Showtime's 60 Minutes Sports, a monthly sports magazine show beginning in January 2013. The show completed a four-year run in March 2017 after more than 50 episodes. Prior to that he was CBS News' chief investigative correspondent for seven years, after spending nine years as a sportscaster for HBO and CBS Sports.
He joined ABC News in New York City as a network correspondent in September 1989 and for eight years reported on hard-edged and issue-related sports stories for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. He has written or co-written 11 books, including New York Timesbest sellers, "Tiger Woods," "The System, an inside look at big-time college football and Why You Crying?, the autobiography of actor/comedian George Lopez; Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA, a critically acclaimed account of the rise of the NBA under Commissioner David Stern; and the New York Times best seller Raw Recruits. Keteyian won a Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Award for a 1993 ABC News report on the landmark Title IX battle at Brown University. He also won 1993 and 1994 Emmy Awards in Sports Journalism and Overall Achievement for his reporting for ESPN’s Outside the LinesItalic text''series.
CBS Sports and CBS News
Keteyian joined CBS Sports as a special-features reporter in December 1997. Keteyian has been a sideline reporter for the Network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship since 1998 and annually contributes reports on key NCAA issues and features on teams and players during CBS Sports' Final Four broadcasts. For the 2005 and the 2006 NFL seasons he served as the sideline reporter with the NFL broadcast team of Dick Enberg and Dan Dierdorf after spending six years as the lead sideline reporter with Greg Gumbel and Phil Simms. He also contributed reports for the NFL Pre-Game show The NFL Today and served as a reporter for the CBS Television Network's coverage of Super Bowl XXXV in February 2001 and Super Bowl XXXVIII February 2004. He served as a reporter for CBS's coverage of the 1998 FedEx Orange Bowl, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and has been the host and co-writer of the Tour de France. He was also the sideline reporter for the infamous Snow Bowl between the Patriots and Raiders on January 19, 2002. Keteyian served as a contributor for the Super Bowl XLI in February 2007, and appeared on The NFL Today on Sunday December 23, 2007 with a one-on-one interview with New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick. Of Keteyian's 11 Emmys, three were for CBS News, including most recently Photocopiers: Hidden Dangers and Rape in America: Justice Denied, a two-part investigation into the shocking backlog of rape kits across the country. Four were for CBS Sports, including three for coverage of the Tour de France and one for a Super Bowl pre-game piece about NFL quarterbacks and their sons. He also has two Sports Journalism Emmys for Real Sports - a report on the financing of the Bank One Ballpark in Arizona and a story on high school basketball star Amare Stoudemire. According to Sharyl Attkisson in her book Stonewalled, CBS News became so hostile to any investigative reporting into the Obama Administration that "She notes that , which under previous hosts Dan Rather, Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer largely gave her free rein, became so hostile to real reporting that investigative journalist Armen Keteyian and his producer Keith Summa asked for their unit to be taken off the program’s budget, then Summa left the network entirely."
HBO Sports
He also was a featured correspondent for HBO Sports' Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, from 1998–2006 and returned to the show from April 2010-December 2012. He has twice won Emmy Awards for RS in Sports Journalism and a story on high school basketball star Amare Stoudemire ). The topics on which he has reported over the years include point shaving on the North Carolina State University basketball team; the lack of black quarterbacks in the NFL; the killing of show horses for insurance profit; the premature deaths of many professional wrestlers; the rise of unscrupulous player agents in college sports; and the risks and realities of AIDS in sports. Additionally, Keteyian co-produced and co-wrote "A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers," a 2002 documentary aired as part of HBO Sports' "Sports of the 20th Century" series.
Personal life
Keteyian is the co-author of "The System," a detailed look inside major college football published by Doubleday in the fall of 2013. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, with his wife, Dede. His most recent book about Tiger Woods, co-authored with Jeff Benedict, published by Simon & Schuster in March 2018, became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller and the basis of a forthcoming documentary on HBO.
