About Marty Marty Smith is one of ESPN’s most popular and recognized reporters and hosts who currently covers a variety of sports including college football, basketball, golf, motorsports and others. Smith’s features and reporting are often seen on ESPN networks including College GameDay Built by the Home Depot, SportsCenter and ESPN.com. In 2026, Smith signed a multi-year extension with ESPN. Prior to joining ESPN, Smith was a senior writer for NASCAR.com, an analyst and host on the former SPEED Channel and a NASCAR analyst on Fox Sports Net. A Radford University graduate, Smith covered sports for daily newspapers in Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va., before joining NASCAR.com. About Ryan A senior writer for ESPN.com, Ryan McGee is the co-host of Marty and McGee Presented by Old Trapper, which airs on SEC Network and ESPN Radio. McGee co-hosts Marty & McGee alongside his close friend Marty Smith, while contributing across high-profile studio programming, including SportsCenter, SEC Nation, SEC Now, College Football Live, College GameDay and more. McGee signed a multi-year contract extension with ESPN in the fall of 2021. McGee started with ESPN in 1994, working on the production staff of the show rpm2night, during which time he also began contributing to ESPN The Magazine. From 2001-03, he produced Totally NASCAR on FOX Sports Net and for five years served as editor in chief at NASCAR Media Group, winning two Sports Emmys and penning the script for the documentary film Dale. He has seven Sports Emmys in all, been named National Motorsports Press Association’s Writer of the Year eight times, and is a member of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), National Collegiate Baseball Writers (NCBWA) and national board member of the National Sports Media Association (NSMA).