ESPN Anchor Sage Steele spoke yesterday at the Indiana University East’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration to share her personal experience in her talk titled “How diversity and challenges make us stronger and with our own foundational standards, we can make a difference and succeed.”
Steele had sports in her blood even before becoming a journalist. She is the daughter of Gary Steele ’70, the first African American to play football at West Point, and the sister of Chad Steele, the media relations director for the Ravens.
It was from a West Point Cadet prayer that Sage Steele learned one of the best lessons that she passes on to fans.
The prayer says, “Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half-truth when the whole can be won.”
“That part that I mentioned from the West Point Cadet prayer about choosing the harder right than the easier wrong, I think that’s something that we can apply to anything — even something as silly as breaking up with someone,” she said.
“It’s something that I was raised with and memorized as a child. I make my kids do it. My dad was right and it’s true.”