By Matt Hladik For the last seven-plus years, Michael Eaves has been a mainstay at ESPN. Eaves hosts a number of core ESPN programs, including SportsCenter and NBA Countdown. He has also anchored the Masters and reported from both the Summer and Winter Olympics. A native of rural Kentucky, Eaves took an atypical path into broadcasting. Since he arrived in the field back in the mid 1990s, he’s worked at FOX Sports, Al-Jazeera America and several local stations before jumping to ESPN in 2015. We caught up with Eaves recently to discuss his background, charity work for veterans, what it was like …