Gary Parrish

{{Short description|American journalist}}

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Gary Parrish is a sports columnist for CBSSports.com, a host, studio analyst and sideline reporter for the CBS Sports Network, the host of the CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball podcast, and the host of "The Gary Parrish Show" on Grind City Media in Memphis.{{cite news |title=Gary Parrish leaving 92.9 FM |url=https://dailymemphian.com/article/33074/memphis-radio-sports-gary-parrish-leaving-929-fm |access-date=10 July 2024 |work=The Daily Memphian |date=23 December 2022}}

Parrish has been covering college basketball since 2002,{{cite web |title=Gary Parrish - CBSSports.com |url=https://www.cbssports.com/writers/gary-parrish/ |website=cbssports.com |publisher=CBS Sports |access-date=10 July 2024}} been with CBS Sports since 2006 and Grind City Media since 2023.{{Cite web |url=https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/memphis-sports-talkin/Content?oid=5114191 |title=Memphis: Sports Talkin' |access-date=2019-08-25 |archive-date=2018-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812214005/https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/memphis-sports-talkin/Content?oid=5114191 |url-status=dead }}

He previously worked at The Commercial Appeal and 92.9 FM ESPN in Memphis. As a young reporter for The Commercial Appeal in 2001, Parrish broke the story of the college football recruiting scandal surrounding standout Alabama Crimson Tide defensive tackle Albert Means, which would be regarded as one of the biggest scandals in the sport's history.{{cite news |last1=Higgins |first1=Ron |title=Once upon a time, Alabama dodged the NCAA's biggest bullet |url=https://www.nola.com/sports/once-upon-a-time-alabama-dodged-the-ncaas-biggest-bullet-ron-higgins/article_fee54007-5eda-51c8-bd2b-2fd893005c55.html |access-date=10 July 2024 |work=NOLA.com |date=25 June 2015}}