Neil Everett

Neil Everett (born c. 1962 as Neil Everett Morfitt) is a sportscaster for ESPN. He is the co-anchor of the West Coast edition of SportsCenter alongside Stan Verrett.

Early years

Born in Portland, Oregon, Everett was raised in Spokane, Washington and graduated from its Lewis and Clark High School in 1980. He was a two-sport varsity starter for the Tigers in football and basketball, named to the all-city team in football at guard, and played on the defensive line as well. Undersized in the late 1970s, he admits that he was "king of the cut-back block."

While in high school, Everett wrote a letter to the editor criticizing a Spokane music critic's review of a Ted Nugent concert.

After high school in eastern Washington, Everett attended college in Oregon. He started at Willamette University in Salem, then transferred to the University of Oregon in Eugene and graduated in 1984. He was initiated as a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Willamette and continued that membership at Oregon. While he was a student in Eugene in 1983, his mother Jackie, a high school teacher, died from cancer at age 45. The use of his middle name as a professional surname is a tribute to his mother, a UO alumna and Astoria native, who would call him by his first and middle name when his behavior was less than optimal.