As a teenager, Cohn, a New Yorker, demonstrated talent at ice hockey, joining her high school's boys team for eight games.
Cohn graduated with a bachelors degree in arts and communications from the SUNY at Oswego.
In 1981, she debuted as a sports anchor for the Patchogue, New York-based radio station WALK-AM (also WALK-FM). After leaving that station in 1984 and until 1987, she worked as a sports anchor for four other New York area radio stations.
In 1987, she made sportscasting history by becoming the first full-time U.S. female sports anchor, when she was hired by ABC to anchor their radio sports news show. In 1988, she got her first television break, after being hired by what was at the time one of ESPN's top competitors, the SportsChannel America Network. In 1989, she hosted a call-in radio sports show back home in New York.
Cohn moved to Seattle, Washington, after her stint at the Sports Channel America Network, being hired by KIRO-TV to work as a sports anchor there.
She returned to the East Coast in 1992, when she was hired by ESPN to work at SportsCenter. She has become a familiar face among SportsCenter viewers ever since, and she is one of a small group of women that have worked at the show. She has also been featured in many of the show's comical This is SportsCenter commercials.
In 2005, Cohn signed a contract extension with ESPN, which adds doing play-by-play for WNBA telecasts to her duties.
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