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Spandan "Spoon" Daftary (born April 13, 1981 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a three-time Emmy Award–winning producer of television sports shows.
Spandan worked on ESPN's Sportscenter in 2003 [1] and 2004 when the show won consecutive Sports Emmy awards for "Outstanding Daily Studio Show". [2] He worked on ESPN2's Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, which was cancelled by the network in January 2007. He moved to Foxsports, where he worked on the NFL Kickoff show. [2]
Spandan started at forward for Sewickley Academy's 1999 Section Championship squad. The head coach of the team, Victor Gianatta, gave Spandan the nickname, "Spoon".
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Spandan "Spoon" Daftary (born April 13, 1981 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a three-time Emmy Award–winning producer of television sports shows.
Spandan worked on ESPN's Sportscenter in 2003 [1] and 2004 when the show won consecutive Sports Emmy awards for "Outstanding Daily Studio Show". [2] He worked on ESPN2's Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, which was cancelled by the network in January 2007. He moved to Foxsports, where he worked on the NFL Kickoff show. [2]
Spandan started at forward for Sewickley Academy's 1999 Section Championship squad. The head coach of the team, Victor Gianatta, gave Spandan the nickname, "Spoon".