TAMPA — Before she came to Tampa this weekend to serve as ESPN’s studio host, she worried.Before she rose to prominence as a college football analyst and reporter for the network, she wondered.Before she started making regular appearances as a co-host on the morning show Get Up, and before she earned roles in national commercials for Pizza Hut, Mercedes Benz and Home Depot, Maria Taylor actually considered a career correction.While living in her parents’ Atlanta home as a 24-year-old — on their insurance — and doing freelance volleyball and basketball for Comcast and Fox Sports South, doubt crept into her thinking..“I went back to school to get my Masters in Business because I really didn’t think it was going to work out,” said Taylor, now 31. “I didn’t have a full-time job and I was like this isn’t going to work. At some point, I’m going to turn 26 and my parents will not be giving me insurance anymore. “So that was really a gut check moment like, ‘Are you really going to dive into this or are you gonna change where you want you to go with your life?’ So I stuck with it and it all worked out,… Read full this story
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