About Rashad Milligan

Jeffrey Rashad Milligan was born on January 19, 1995 in Marietta, Georgia. Growing up, he developed a passion for sports, specifically basketball after spending years of watching "Space Jam" and attending Atlanta Hawks games with his father. 

While emerging into a little league baseball star and a mediocre recreational league basketball player, Milligan decided at the age of 10 that he wanted to be a sports analyst. Now in his 10th season of covering the NBA and being the senior audience editor-sports for nola.com, his childhood dreams have been realized.

Milligan received his first official start as a contributor on NBA.com for the 2007 and 2008 NBA Mock Drafts, where he selected Al Horford No. 3 overall to the Atlanta Hawks and Marreese Speights No. 15 overall to the Phoenix Suns. Also around the period of 2007-2010, he created Atlanta Hawks highlight mixes he later uploaded to YouTube, which received thousands of views and even the No. 1 spot for Atlanta Hawks mixes from the blog "NBA 'From The Bench'."

As a freshman at Valdosta State University, Milligan placed only second to the University's senior sports editor in the school's Jim Murray Memorial Foundation scholarship competition for sports writing. After his contest submission, he was recruited by The Spectator to become the beat reporter for the Lady Blazer softball team, which went to the 2014 NCAA Divisional II National Championship Game.

In the fall of 2014, Milligan transferred to Georgia State University and became a reporter for "GSU Primetime Sportz." At Primetime, he learned to write, shoot and edit packages weekly. In July 2015, Milligan became the sports editor of The Signal, where he managed staffs ranging from one to six reporters.

In 2016, Milligan joined the Action Sports and News team to contribute as a sports writer. In 2017, he placed first in the Sports Reporting Onsite Competition at the Southeastern Journalism Conference at the University of Mississippi, where 45 member colleges and universities from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee represented the colleges present at the conference. Less than a week after his competition win, Milligan began an internship at rolling out, a Black-owned media company with over 287,000 followers on Facebook.

His first full-time job after college was being the city of Douglasville and crime beat reporter at the Douglas County Sentinel. Ten months later, he made history in a new position as the sports editor of The Valley Times-News in Lanett, Alabama. Milligan is the first-ever Black editor at the newspaper. At The Valley Times-News, Milligan placed first in the Alabama Press Association awards for in-depth sports coverage with his work on Chambers Academy’s first football state championship in school history in 2018. In Lanett, he covered Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jamari Thrash, Kentucky safety Kristian Story, Florida safety Trikweze Bridges and Wisconsin cornerback Jay Harper while they were in middle and high school. He also covered the 2019 Dixie World Series champion Valley 9 and 10-year-old all-star baseball team.

In November 2019, Milligan joined the USA Today Network at the Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. In Jackson, he has worked as a sports planner, trending reporter and general assignment reporter where he has covered Jackson State, Southern Miss, high school sports, Mississippi State and Ole Miss. Milligan was the primary reporter covering Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders’ first season as the head football coach at Jackson State. At the Clarion Ledger, Milligan won first place sports feature for his story on Ameshya Williams-Holliday re-emerging in basketball at Jackson State after vanishing from the Mississippi State women’s basketball program. After national attention from public run-ins with Sanders, Milligan then returned to rolling out for three years as a full-time staff member, covering events like the BET Awards and NAACP Image Awards. In October 2024, he joined nola.com to become the senior audience editor- sports, the largest newspaper in Louisiana.

In 2020, Milligan produced print and video content on the Atlanta Falcons for Sports Illustrated as the quality editor for the Falcon Report. Milligan was also a contributor for Peachtree Hoops, the Atlanta Hawks community for SB Nation.

As a hip-hop journalist, Milligan covered the 2015 and 2016 A3C hip-hop festival's in addition to the profile pieces of Larry League and Daylan Gideon. He has also featured Gucci Mane, T.I., Jeezy, 21 Savage, Lil Yachty, Rae Sremmurd, DDG, TyTheGuy, Yung Charc, RobOlu and 645AR, SwaVay, DJMarcB, Danger Incorporated, Sid Worthy and Jason Steele on the series.

Nowadays, Milligan is recognized for being one of the first journalists to profile prominent members of Atlanta’s underground hip-hop scene, specifically KARRAHBOOO and Anycia. LSU basketball and rap star Flau’jae also said Milligan was one of the first reporters to cover her back when she was a senior at Sprayberry High School.

He was also an on-air personality for The A League Show, which can be streamed on Soundcloud and iTunes. The A League also airs on the Dash Radio channel on Sirus Radio and can be viewed on the Swish channel on YouTube.

A Theatre minor in college, Milligan enjoys creating, writing, starring and directing online sketches, creating the "Primetime is All The Time" campaign at Georgia State. His acting credits include Donald Glover's "Atlanta" on FX, "Devious Maids" on LifeTime, Netflix’s Step Sisters, the 2018 film The Pact, Blockers starring John Cena and Katie Carpenter's "Maid to Order" online series. Milligan also enjoys experimenting with music, as he released the mixtape Deans List in 2015. The project featured the singles “Trip,” which was featured on West Coast Keish’s blog, and “Stardom,” with an official music video premiering on VEVO.