Born in Italy in 1975, Beadle spent most of her childhood in Texas. She eventually attended and graduated from the state research university in San Antonio. With her father’s assistance, she became an intern for the San Antonio Spurs, after which she started her career as a reporter. At the beginning of her career, she had various hosting jobs before joining ESPN in 2009. Her most notably job before joining ESPN was working for the YES Network as a reporter for the New Jersey Nets. Even though she is best remembered as the co-host of SportsNation on ESPN2 with Colin Cowherd, and Winners Bracket on ABC with Marcellus Wiley, she has done several other shows including What You Missed Over the Weekend by People.com, I want your job by Fine Living Network, Animal Planet Report by the Animal Planet, Beach Week Series by Travel Channel, Inside Orlando’s Resort and Outrageous Room Service by the Discovery Channel. Beadle currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut. She was bought out of her ESPN contract in 2019, exiting the network after a decade. Michelle Beadle Salary What was Michelle Beadle’s ESPN salary? $5 million per year. Real Estate: In 2016, Michelle paid $3.75 million for a home in the LA suburb of Encino. She listed the home for sale in August 2020 for $4.4 million.