Ruthie Polinsky
About the speaker
Ruthie Polinsky is currently the host of the Big Pro Football Show on the Chicago Sports Network (CHSN). In addition, she occasionally hosts other programs for the network like Chicago Bulls and White Sox Pre/Post-Game Shows, The Chicago Lead, and hosts a Chicago Bears focused... More
Ruthie Polinsky is currently the host of the Big Pro Football Show on the Chicago Sports Network (CHSN). In addition, she occasionally hosts other programs for the network like Chicago Bulls and White Sox Pre/Post-Game Shows, The Chicago Lead, and hosts a Chicago Bears focused podcast called The Charter. She also serves as a reporter for CHSN going on site for various Chicago Bears key moments and is a reporter on select Bulls games.
Previously, Ruthie was a host and reporter for NBC Sports Chicago working a variety of roles including as the host of the Chicago Bears post-game show called Football Aftershow, Football Night in Chicago, and Sports Sunday. She also served as the sports anchor on the local newscasts, and was an assignment reporter.
Prior to NBC Chicago, she was the lead sports anchor at NBC 6 Miami, where she was recognized as an Emmy® Award Winning sportscaster, having won the Suncoast Regional Emmy for Best Sports Talent in 2021. Before joining NBC 6, Polinsky worked as a Sports Anchor and Reporter at WPRI in Providence, Rhode Island for three years. In 2019, Polinsky received the National Sports Media Association’s “Rhode Island Sportscaster of the Year” award. That same year, she also received a National Academy of Television Arts and Science nomination for her feature story about a 15-year-old female boxer named Sierra Martinez.
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Polinsky graduated from the University of Michigan in 2015 and received a dual degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Drama. It was there that she realized she could combine her love of performance and storytelling with her love of sports. That realization led her to pursue a career in sports broadcasting.
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