Schaap was born in
New York City in 1969. He is a regular contributor to
Nightline and
ABC World News Tonight and has been published in
Sports Illustrated,
ESPN The Magazine,
Time,
Parade,
The Wall Street Journal, and
The New York Times. Schaap has worked four major soccer events for
ESPN as the network's lead reporter, including: the
2010 FIFA World Cup,
Euro 2012, the
2014 FIFA World Cup, and
Euro 2016. A native and resident of New York City, Schaap is the author of
Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History (Houghton Mifflin, ), a
New York Times best-seller, and ''Triumph: The Untold Story of
Jesse Owens and
Hitler's Olympics''. Schaap is the son of the late journalist and broadcaster
Dick Schaap. Like his father, Schaap is an alumnus of
Cornell University and a former editor at
The Cornell Daily Sun. Schaap was also a member of the
Quill and Dagger society. He won the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Writing at the 2005 Emmys, an award named after his father, for an
Outside the Lines feature titled "Finding
Bobby Fischer." Schaap and his wife Joclyn live in Connecticut and are parents of three children. ==References==