Pablo S. Torre

Pablo S. Torre
Torre in 2018
Born (1985-09-27) September 27, 1985
New York, New York, United States
EducationHarvard College (AB)
Occupation(s)Television host
Sportswriter
SpouseElizabeth Doherty (m. 2016)

Pablo Sison Torre[1] (born September 27, 1985) is an American sportswriter, podcaster, and television host.[2][3] He hosts Pablo Torre Finds Out with Meadowlark Media. He previously hosted and contributed to various programs at ESPN, including the television program High Noon with Bomani Jones and the podcast ESPN Daily.[4]

Education

Torre attended Regis High School in New York City.[5] His parents are immigrants from the Philippines, and worked as a urologist and a dermatologist.[4][5] He once humorously referred to his father as "the LeBron James of Filipino urologists."[6]

Torre graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with highest honors in sociology in 2007, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa society.[7][8] There, he wrote a 114-page thesis entitled Sympathy for the Devil? Child Homicide, Victim Characteristics, and the Sentencing Preferences of the American Conscience,[9] which won the Albert M. Fulton Prize for best thesis in the field of sociology.[10] At Harvard, he wrote for The Harvard Crimson, where he was an executive editor.[11]

Career

Sports Illustrated

Upon graduating from Harvard, Torre joined Sports Illustrated as a staff writer, where his focuses included sports investigations, boxing, and basketball.

His 2009 award-winning article, "How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke",[12] along with two follow-up reports, spurred an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the investment firm Triton Financial for defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar scam. A federal jury would later find Triton's CEO Kurt Barton guilty of criminal charges. Broke, an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, prominently featured Torre, and was based on his research.

ESPN

On October 10, 2012, Torre joined ESPN as a senior writer for both its website and magazine.

On March 12, 2014, Torre first filled in as host on TV talk show Around the Horn in the absence of Tony Reali. In August of that year, Torre covered for Reali when he took time off for the birth of his daughter. In 2015, Torre was the first person to report that Tony Wroten had begun using the term "Trust the Process" when talking to the Philadelphia 76ers during their rebuilding phase.[13]

In 2016, Torre produced his first 30 for 30 entitled Friedman's Shoes, which was directed by Danny Lee.

In 2018, Torre and Bomani Jones debuted High Noon, a daily show from the new ESPN Studios in New York City's South Street Seaport. The show was cancelled in March 2020.[14]

In 2020, Torre began hosting the ESPN Daily podcast.[15]

At ESPN, Torre was a frequent guest on various ESPN shows such as Around the Horn and The Sports Reporters. Torre also frequently served as an alternate host for Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, and Highly Questionable. He has also appeared on Outside the Lines, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, and TrueHoop.[16]

Meadowlark Media

In March 2023, Torre joined Meadowlark Media, a new company founded by former colleague Dan Le Batard. Torre continued making contributions to the ESPN programs Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn (until its cancellation in 2025).[17][18][4]

In September 2023, Torre launched a new podcast and webseries called Pablo Torre Finds Out.[19] The show has a staff of about a dozen producers and editors, and combines both original reporting and conversational content.[4] In an interview with Intelligencer, he described his motto in making the show as "take stupid things seriously."[3] Frequent guests on the show have included Le Batard, Mina Kimes, Katie Nolan, and John Skipper.[4] The show was initially sponsored by DraftKings, but the relationship ended in 2025 as part of what Torre described as a "conscious uncoupling" due to the reputation of sports gambling companies.[3][20]

Personal life

Torre is of Filipino descent.[21] In 2016, Torre married Elizabeth Doherty. They have a daughter.[22]

Filmography

Year Title Credit
2016 Friedman's Shoes Producer
2022 38 at the Garden[23] Cast

References

  1. ^ "Pablo Sison Torre". Gold House. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  2. ^ "Pablo Torre is Your New ESPN Daily Voice". August 3, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Stieb, Matt (June 17, 2025). "Pablo Torre Won't Stop Talking". Intelligencer. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d e Keefer, Zak (May 30, 2025). "Jordon Hudson, Kash Patel and MJ's fax machine: Pablo Torre's 'terminal content brain' battles the algorithm". The Athletic. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  5. ^ a b Torre, Pablo S. (July 28, 2006). "Growing Up Beyond Kips Bay". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  6. ^ HIGHNOONonESPN [@HIGHNOONonESPN] (October 17, 2018). ""As the son of the LeBron James of Filipino urologists, I went and inquired and said Dad, how serious is a smashed testicle?" @pablotorre after learning what New Zealand rugby player Jona Nareki played 30 minutes withpic.twitter.com/3pIxWVgJ6F" (Tweet). Retrieved February 9, 2020 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ "No Longer Playing Doctor | Magazine". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  8. ^ "Pablo S. Torre Joins ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com as Senior Writer - ESPN Press Room U.S."
  9. ^ Torre, Pablo S. (March 23, 2007). "Sympathy for the Devil? Child Homicide, Victim Characteristics, and the Sentencing Preferences of the American Conscience". doi:10.2139/ssrn.1310916. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "Undergraduate News | Department of Sociology". sociology.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  11. ^ Kreiswirth, Carrie (October 2, 2012). "Pablo S. Torre Joins ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com as Senior Writer". espnpressroom.com. ESPN.com.
  12. ^ Torre, Pablo S. (March 23, 2009). "How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  13. ^ MAX RAPPAPORT (August 23, 2017). "The Definitive History of 'Trust the Process'". Bleacher Report.
  14. ^ "ESPN's Pablo Torre learns his show is canceled while attending birth of first child". Foxnews. February 25, 2020.
  15. ^ "The ESPN Daily podcast: How to listen, episode guide and more". ESPN. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  16. ^ Finn, Chad (November 21, 2020). "Pablo Torre, Harvard grad, on hosting the 'best-kept secret at ESPN'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  17. ^ Steinberg, Brian (March 14, 2023). "ESPN's Pablo Torre Will Join Meadowlark Media (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  18. ^ Koons, Zach (March 14, 2023). "ESPN Losing Popular Host, Journalist to Dan Le Batard's Meadowlark Media". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  19. ^ Torre, Pablo. "EPISODE 1: Our Trump Tapes, Revealed". www.pablo.show. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  20. ^ Kleen, Brendon (March 11, 2024). "Pablo Torre describes his approach to doing journalism in partnership with a sports gambling company". Awful Announcing. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  21. ^ "A Monument to My Roots | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson".
  22. ^ "ESPN's Pablo Torre learns his show is canceled while attending birth of first child". Foxnews. February 25, 2020.
  23. ^ "38 at the Garden (2022)". Imdb. Retrieved February 27, 2023.

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