Mina Kimes

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mina Kimes

• Her father belongs to Seattle. She grew up in Nebraska, U.S.

  

• Mina Kimes began playing soccer when she was five years old.

• As a child, she liked watching sports and not playing them. She liked the SuperSonics because she loved the color green.

• Mina Kimes watched the Mariners play many times at the old King County Stadium in Seattle, Washington.

• When she was small, she used to watch Seahawks games with her father. She learnt his opinions and followed her father’s idols, Largent, Kennedy, and Jones.

• Mina Kimes is of Korean descent on her mother’s side. She moved to Arizona with her family during her teenage years.

• Upon graduation, she earned Latin honours from Yale University in 2007.

• After completing her formal education, Mina Kimes started working as a reporter at Fortune Small Business. She served in the position till August 2008.

• She worked as a writer at Fortune Magazine from August 2008 to February 2013.

• In 2012, Mina Kimes investigated the illegal use of cement to fix bones, named Bad to the Bone, that led to many deaths. This investigation won her the Henry R. Luce Award.

• Her articles on business leaders Doug Oberhelman (King Kat) and Eddie Lampert (The Sun Tzu at Sears) earned her the Front Page Award for business reporting.

  

• In March 2013, Mina Kimes joined Bloomberg News as an investigative reporter. She served in the position till April 2014.

• In May 2014, she was appointed as a senior writer and columnist at ESPN The Magazine.

• The ESPN editors offered her the job after she wrote a Tumblr essay about her bond with her father and the Seattle Seahawks.

• At ESPN, Mina Kimes has written many articles about young sports stars such as basketball player Devonta Pollard.

  

• She once made headlines after co-wroting an article with Jeff Passan on sexual harassment claims against former Mets GM Jared Porter.

• Mina Kimes is a regular panelist on the television sports show Around The Horn and has appeared on many ESPN shows, including First Take, Highly Questionable, and Pardon the Interruption.

  

• In January 2017, she co-hosted The Morning Roast, a national ESPN Radio weekend show, with Domonique Foxworth and Clinton Yates.

• Mina Kimes has contributed to special ESPN live Twitter shows.

• In 2017, she co-hosted Big Little Live, a Big Little Lies after-show, with Amanda Dobbins on The Ringer.

  

• In 2018, Mina Kimes began working on ESPN’s digital NFL Draft coverage.

• Once, in a media interview, she talked about her favourite football player. She said,
  

  My favorite player on the Seahawks is the running back Marshawn Lynch, who’s sort of notoriously reticent with the media but is an intriguing person. And he’s from Oakland, so I would go to whatever his favorite restaurant is there.”

• Mina Kimes hosted ESPN Daily, a news podcast, from October 2019 to July 2020.

• In October 2019, she wrote the first ESPN Cover Story about NFL player DeAndre Hopkins and his mother’s survival story.

• After this, ESPN The Magazine changed to a digital format.

• In 2019, Mina Kimes worked as a color analyst for the Los Angeles Rams’ preseason games.

  

• In June 2020, she became an NFL analyst for NFL Live.

• On 29 November 2020, Mina Kimes appeared on the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and helped chef David Chang win $1,000,000 for charity by assisting with the final question.

• After that, she wrote short articles on various NFL players, including Aaron Rodgers, Von Miller, Darrelle Revis, Tyrod Taylor, Antonio Brown, Baker Mayfield, and Michael and Martellus Bennett.

• Mina Kimes then wrote about Korean esports celebrity Faker.

  

• She has provided football analysis on various American daily sports news television programs, such as Get Up, SportsCenter, and First Take.

• Mina Kimes has written many notable characteristics for ESPN.

• She has traveled to many countries to cover major stories on esports, NBA prospect Luka Dončić, and Korean bat flips.

  

• Mina Kimes is a fan of the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners because her father is from Seattle.

• In 2022, she signed with Omaha Productions to produce her podcast, The Mina Kimes Show, an NFL podcast, which was named after her dog, Lenny.

  

• In 2024, Mina Kimes co-hosted the television show Love Is Kimes with Davis Dennis Jr. She covered the Netflix show Love Is Blind.

  

• She is an animal lover and has a pet dog named Lenny. She often shares pictures of her pet on social media.

  

• Mina Kimes likes travelling to distant places in her free time.

  

• She is often spotted enjoying alcoholic beverages on various occasions.

  

• Once, during a media conversation, Mina Kimes said that she wanted to be a writer when she was young. She said,
  

  Before I was a sports writer, I was a business journalist. That was not something I dreamed of doing either when I was a kid. But I just knew I liked writing and reading and communicating.”