Sports anchor Sherree Burruss Leaves WRC-TV for CBS Sports

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Burruss will do segments for CBS Sports HQ streaming outlet.

It didn’t take long for anchor and reporter Sherree Burruss to understand the psyche of the championship-starved D.C. sports fan after she arrived at WRC-TV (Channel 4) from Atlanta in December 2016. During one of her first days on set, Jim Vance voiced his frustration with his beloved Washington Redskins, who had blown an opportunity to clinch a playoff spot with a loss to the New York Giants in the final game of the regular season.

“Literally, the next day it was in The Washington Post,” Burruss, who went to high school outside of Chicago and graduated from Wisconsin, said of Vance’s comments. “And I was like, ‘Oh my goodness; this is wild.’ There were these instances where [fans] were like, ‘Ugh, this is so D.C.’ You could just sense the pain because people were so scarred from years past.”

Vance died of cancer seven months later, and while the Redskins still haven’t won anything of consequence since their 1992 Super Bowl triumph, Burruss would cover multiple titles by D.C. teams over the next three years. In December, she said goodbye to her WRC family and the District of Champions after covering one more Redskins loss. On Monday, she started a new chapter of her career in Connecticut as an anchor and reporter for CBS Sports HQ, CBS’s 24-hour streaming sports news network.