Speaker Profile

Pablo Torre, who joined ESPN in 2012, is a multi-platform commentator, appearing on TV shows, writing and, since August 2020, hosting the ESPN Daily podcast each weekday.

Torre regularly appears on Around the Horn, Highly Questionable and ESPN Radio’s Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz, as well as a guest on other programming across the network.  Torre hosted a daily studio show, High Noon alongside Bomani Jones from 2018-20. Torre has also been a senior writer for ESPN.com. Torre previously worked at Sports Illustrated from 2007-12 where he was a staff writer.

Torre wrote and produced his first 30 for 30 short film, Friedman’s Shoes (2016), while contributing to other ESPN Films projects. In 2012, he appeared in Broke, a 30 for 30 feature documentary, which was based on his own reporting on athletes and financial health. Those stories also led the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sue the firm Triton Financial for defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar scam. A federal jury would find Triton’s CEO guilty on 39 charges.

Features written by Torre have been honored by GLAAD; the Society of Professional Journalists; the Best American Sports Writing (Notable); the U.S. Basketball Writers Association; the Boxing Writers Association of America; Mental Health America; the Association of Health Care Journalists; the Society of American Business Editors and Writers; and the Associated Collegiate Press and ASNE. He was included on lists of Sports Media’s 13 Rising Stars of 2013 (by Awful Announcing) and the Top 30 Sportscasters Under 30.

Torre has spoken at Harvard Law, Stanford Business School, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Columbia Journalism School, the Tribeca Film Festival, Williams College and the Asia Society.

Born and raised in Manhattan, Torre graduated from Harvard University in 2007. There, he wrote a thesis about child homicide and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, with highest honors.