Armen Keteyian

Armen Keteyian

Keteyian is now in his third year as a reporter for CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

The two-time Emmy Award winner joined CBS Sports as a special features reporter in December 1997. At that time he also joined HBO Sports as a correspondent for Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. In addition, he writes a monthly column for Sport magazine. He works with the Network's No. 1 NFL broadcast team of Greg Gumbel and Phil Simms.

After working for two newspapers in California, Keteyian joined Sports Illustrated in 1982. He then joined NBC Sports as a reporter and producer, working on a wide range of programming, including the 1988 Olympic Summer Games. He joined ABC News in September 1989 and for eight years reported on hard-edged and issue-related sports stories for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts.

Keteyian has written or co-written eight books, including most recently Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA, a critically acclaimed account of the rise of the NBA under Commissioner David Stern. He also wrote the New York Times bestseller Raw Recruits.

Keteyian was graduated cum laude from San Diego State University in 1976. He was born March 6, 1953, in Detroit and resides in New Canaan, Conn., with his wife, Dede, and two daughters.