stephen bardo
Stephen Bardo is a college basketball analyst and sports broadcaster with Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network. He also covers the NBA for Yahoo! and is the color analyst for the Chicago Sky of the WNBA. Bardo received an Emmy award as a reporter with CBS 2 Chicago for his coverage of the Chicago Marathon sporting event. He has worked with ESPN covering college sports basketball and was a frequent contributor to the highly rated show “First Take.”
Bardo was the starting point guard on the legendary Flying Illini of the University of Illinois 1989 team that qualified for the NCAA Men’s Final Four game. That same year, Bardo was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Bardo's 10-year professional career in the United States included stops in the NBA (Dallas, Detroit, and San Antonio) and overseas (France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Venezuela).
In 2018, Bardo’s production company, Windo Productions, developed his own show television, “America Loves Food and Sports,” where he interviews sports guests while reviewing restaurants in Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Miami.
America loves
food & sports
Host Stephen Bardo takes you and some of Basketball’s elite on a culinary adventure throughout America and around the world.
Catch up on old episodes here.
CREATOR AND HOST
BARDO’S BREAKDOWN PODCAST
PRESIDENT OF THE CHICAGO CHAPTER
NATIONAL BASKETBALL RETIRED PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
CREATOR AND HOST
AMERICA LOVES FOOD AND SPORTS
career highlights
BASKETBALL COMMENTATOR
Fox Sports (College Basketball)
Big Ten Network (College Basketball)
Basketball Africa League (NBA)
DIGITAL SHOW HOST
America Loves Food and Sports (Restaurant Review Show)
Bardo’s Breakdown (Interviews around the NBA and NCAA)
BASKETBALL BUSINESSMAN
Courses to launch your Own Digital Sports Network
Basketball clinics around the world (Colombia, Ghana, Hawaii, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Spain, Senegal, and the US)
Basketball ambassador