Rachel Nichols (journalist)

Rachel Michele Nichols (née Alexander, born October 18, 1973) is a Turner Sports and CNN reporter. She was a regular part of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown shows, as well as a regular on ESPN's NBA coverage, Nichols was also a correspondent for E:60. She worked for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (1995–1996) and Washington Post (1996–2004).

Personal
Rachel Michele Alexander was born in Potomac, Maryland. Nichols is a 1991 graduate of Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland and graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1995. She married music executive Max Nichols, son of film and stage director Mike Nichols, in 2001.

She was named one of Esquire's "Women We Love" in 2005.