{"id":21266,"date":"2019-04-04T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=21266"},"modified":"2019-04-04T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:20:23","slug":"nbc-sports-chicagos-leila-rahimi-harvard-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/04\/04\/nbc-sports-chicagos-leila-rahimi-harvard-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Sports Chicago's Leila Rahimi joins Harvard panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Leila Rahimi<\/p><\/div>\n

Leila Rahimi, the anchor, host and reporter for NBC Sports Chicago,<\/a> is heading to Harvard University this weekend to participate in a global conference <\/a>on Iranian culture and its impact on the arts, science and business.<\/p>\n

Rahimi will be among panelists discussing \u201cIranian Americans Shaping the Game\u201d<\/a> at Harvard's fourth annual summit of influential Iranians. With her will be attorney\/author Cyrus Mehri, who created the \u201cNFL Rooney Rule\u201d to promote diversity for head coaching jobs, NBA agent Mayar Zokaei, and entrepreneur Shar Pourdanesh, who was the first Iranian-American player in the NFL.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a huge honor for me, not just to represent as an Iranian-American woman in sports, but also to represent NBC Sports Chicago,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Rahimi joined Comcast SportsNet Chicago (forerunner of NBC Sports Chicago) in 2015 from MLB Network where she had been a host and anchor. She previously worked for regional sports networks in Philadelphia, Houston and San Diego.<\/p>\n

She was born and raised in Denton, Texas, and graduated magna cum laude<\/em> from the University of North Texas with a degree in journalism.<\/p>\n

Rahimi was to have hosted \u201cWhite Sox Pregame Live\u201d on NBC Sports Chicago for the team\u2019s home opener today. But with the weather-related postponement of the game to Friday, she\u2019ll miss the opener to attend the event at Harvard. Chuck Garfien will handle hosting duties in her place.<\/p>\n

Wednesday's comment of the day: <\/a>Carol Hughes:<\/strong> For election night news junkies, WGN delivered.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leila Rahimi, the anchor, host and reporter for NBC Sports Chicago, is heading to Harvard University this weekend to participate in a global conference on Iranian culture and its impact on the arts, science and business. Rahimi will be among panelists discussing \u201cIranian Americans Shaping the Game\u201d at Harvard's fourth annual summit of influential Iranians.... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21266"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21274,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21266\/revisions\/21274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}