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Date of Birth: 1980 , August-26
Birth Nation: United States
Name Bomani Jones
Birth Name Bomani Babatunde Jones
Father Mack Jones
Mother Barbara Ann Posey
Nationality Afro-American
Birth Place/City Atlanta
Ethnicity African-American
Profession Host, Sports Journalist
Working For ESPN
Net Worth $5 million
Salary $500K
Famous for ESPN Sports Reporting
Affair with N/A
Married N/A
Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Online Presence Twitter
TV Show Around the Horn, Highly Questionable
Siblings Tayari Jones, Patrice Jones

Quick Timeline of Bomani Jones

1980 Born in Atlanta, Georgia
2001 Graduated from Clark Atlanta University
2004 Became a sports writer
2008 Became the host of Raleigh: The Three Hour Lunch Break
2011 Hosted his own show The Evening Jones
2014 Appeared on ESPN's Around the Horn

Detail Timeline of Bomani Jones

August 26 , 1980

Born in Atlanta, Georgia

Tall and talented, Bomani Jones was born as Bomani Babatunde Jones in the early 1980s in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America to Mack Jones. He has one sister named Tayari Jones who is a talented writer and an author.

2001

Graduated from Clark Atlanta University

After his high school graduation, he joined Clark Atlanta University with a major in economics. He finally earned his bachelor's degree from there in 2001. He also attended Claremont Graduate University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2004

Became a sports writer

He began his career as a music and pop culture critic. He worked as a writer for AOL and ESPN.com. For several years and then he began working as a sports writer since 2004. He worked as a sports writer for several years. 

2008

Became the host of Raleigh: The Three Hour Lunch Break

In the early 2008, he was named the host of Raleigh: The Three Hour Lunch Break and Sports Saturday with Bomani Jones. He hosted these shows till the end of 2009. He hosted the Raleigh: The Three Hour Lunch Break on 620 the Bull. 

2011

Hosted his own show The Evening Jones

In the early 2010, he launched his own show The Morning Jones and this show ran till the end of August 2011. Later on he began hosting the show The Evening Jones. He also hosted the show Bomani & Jones on SB Nation's YouTube channel.

October 30 , 2014

Appeared on ESPN's Around the Horn

He has been working in ESPN since 2010. At the end of 2014, it was announced that he appeared in about 104 episodes on ESPN’s Around the Horn. His own show The Right Time With Bomani Jones was aired in the early 2015. 

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Bomani Jones is a sports journalist, show host, and writer from the United States. He is famous for being the co-host of Highly Questionable with Dan Le Batard on ESPN. He is also known for being the former writer of SB Nation, Salon, and Page 2 at ESPN.com.

The tall and talented, Bomani Jones was born as Bomani Babatunde Jones in the early 1980s in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States of America to father Mack Jones and mother Barbara Ann Posey. He has one sister named Tayari Jones who is a talented writer and an author. 

It's been over a decade since Bomani Jones has been active in the TV world but he is still maintaining his profile low and secret. To date, there is no information about his love affairs, married life, and spouse in the media.

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Though Bomani Jones was born in Atlanta, Georgia, he spent his childhood days in Houston, Texas. There he got enrolled at some high school. After his high school graduation, he joined Clark Atlanta University with a major in economics. He finally earned his bachelor's degree from there in 2001.

Bomani Jones also attended Claremont Graduate University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He began his career as a music and pop culture critic. He worked as a writer for AOL and ESPN.com. For several years, he worked as a writer, and then he began working as a sports writer in 2004.

In early 2008, he was named as the host of Raleigh: The Three Hour Lunch Break and Sports Saturday with Bomani Jones. He hosted these shows till the end of 2009. In early 2010, he came out as the host of the radio show, The Morning Jones. He has been working in ESPN since 2010.

On the 4th of June, 2018, Bomani Jones was the co-leading host of the series, High Noon with Pablo Torre on ESPN.

Besides that, Bomani has also been serving as an adjunct professor at the Duke University and Elon University

The actual figure about his net worth and salary is unknown. However, speculations have it that Bomani Jones has around $5 million as his total net worth with his salary being over $500K per year.