I didn’t know ESPN had it’s own unprofessionally dressed, flirty sports babe/sidelines reporter. I don’t think I’ve watched an ESPN Sunday Night baseball game all year and I think that’s her regular gig. Evidently, I’m one of the few people around that wasn’t aware of her.
One of the many people aware of who Erin Andrews is and what she does is columnist Mike Nadel. In a recent column he wrote:
Erin Andrews, the ESPN “it” babe who clearly isn’t afraid to flaunt it, sauntered around the visiting clubhouse, flitting from one Cubs player to another. Her skimpy outfit — designed to accentuate her, um, positives — had players leering at her. Some made lewd comments under their breath. Others giggled like 12-year-olds.
I imagine being a female reporter in a male dominated field is hard enough without having to guess if your skirt is short enough or if you have any unsightly panty lines.
It seems she’s dressing to attract male attention and that’s too bad. She might actually be good at what she does, but if she continues to dress in a certain way, that’s what she will be known for.
A very similar problem once plagued Chris Berman. Word has it early in his career he would often wear assless leather chaps and nipple clamps while walking the sidelines of sporting events. He quickly realized that if he continued flaunting his sex appeal for the sake of getting a story, people would only look at him as a boy-toy and not a respected sports journalist.
Evidently Washington Post columnist and ESPN PTI co-host Michael Wilbon hates wearing long paints in the summer time. Knowing first hand just how hot it is right now in the Washington DC area, I really can’t blame him. In fact, I’m wearing shorts right now too.
This reminds me of when I had my high school senior portrait taken. I too was wearing a jacket and tie above the waist and OP corduroy shorts and Vans slip-on shoes below it. Good times!
The Yankees play Boston tonight on the ESPN. I can’t ever figure out which team I hate the most. The Yankees are the Yankees. The Red Sox are kind of like the Yankees version 2.0. Just like the Yankees, they rely on high priced free agents to win championships.
Boston fans are even more obnoxious then Yankees fans. That’s something I didn’t even know was possible.
The game tonight will be called by Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. These two men are as complete polar opposites as two people can be. Miller is one of the best play by play men in baseball while Joe Morgan is semi-mentally retarded. You know that guy at work that is constantly saying things and telling stories that are just not true?
It looks as though the all-time leader in interceptions thrown has second thoughts about being retired. Perhaps he found out that nowhere else other then in the training rooms of the NFL do they hand out Vicodin pills like Pez candy. The four letter network is reporting that Favre sent a letter via overnight mail to the Green Bay Packers asking for his unconditional contractual release.
The hilarity that will ensue as a result of this is mind boggling. If Favre were to sign with the Minnesota Vikings or the Chicago Bears, fat guys all across Wisconsin that wear a big chunk of foam rubber cheese on their head and name their first born son “Lombardi” will likely have strokes.
Looks like Dan Patrick has got himself a new job. From the New York Times:
Dan Patrick, who left ESPN last year to create his own syndicated radio program and write a column for Sports Illustrated, will join NBC Sports where he will be reunited with Keith Olbermann to call the NFL highlights on “Football Night in America.” NBC is scheduled to make the announcement at 2 p.m. Eastern.
NBC is looking to recreate the chemistry and quirky humor that Patrick and Olbermann demonstrated when they were co-anchors on ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” which they dubbed “The Big Show.” Olbermann joined “Football Night” last year, but is best known now as the host of MSNBC’s nightly “Countdown” program.
Recreate the chemistry? I’d argue that any chemistry the two co-hosts had was before people realized Olbermann could be such a narcissistic, misogynistic douche bag. He didn’t have any of his politically polarizing “Special Comments” back when he was on ESPN. I’m not sure adding Patrick to the mix is going to help. Olbermann is clearly not the same person he was in during this stint at ESPN.
Not that I really understand the attraction of NFL football on Sunday night. I don’t get to watch NFL football on Sunday night. I live on the east coast and I work for a living. I can’t stay up till midnight on a Sunday night to watch football.
It turns out I’m not the only one getting into the Euro 2008 football (soccer) championships. An internationally wanted Nazi war criminal has been spotted supporting his national team at the Euro 2008 football championships in Austria.
Milivoj Asner is wanted by Interpol for alleged genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during his service as a police chief in Croatia during the Second World War, when the country was ruled by a Nazi puppet regime.
But Mr Asner, 95, who now lives a quiet and undisturbed life in Klagenfurt, Austria, has been seen taking leisurely walks, sipping wine with his wife Edeltrat and mingling with Croatian football fans prior to the matches of his country’s national team.
He is the number four on the most wanted list of the Nazi-hunters and Croatia has demanded his extradition.
You’d think being #4 on the Nazi-hunter most wanted list would make a person stay at home and watch the games on ESPN. Do they have ESPN in Austria?
Poland faces Germany in the first round action of the 2008 European Championship. This photo ran in a major Polish newspaper. It shows the Polish manager holding the severed heads of German footballers Michael Ballack and Joachim Loew.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say somebody in Poland has a score to settle with Germany.
The games will be shown live on ESPN. The schedule can be found here.
Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison is under investigation in his hometown of Philadelphia in a shooting that took place earlier this week. From ESPN:
The source said the alleged victim came into the bar, Playmakers, around 5 p.m. and engaged in an argument with Harrison, who was at the bar. The victim then left the bar, heading to his car, with Harrison following. Gunfire broke out, the victim was hit in the hand, and a young girl was slightly injured by flying glass from a car that apparently was hit by a bullet.
Police came to scene, but the victim did not identify a shooter. On Wednesday, according to the source, ballistic tests showed that the gun that had fired the shots was a custom-made Belgian weapon, and police determined that Harrison owned such a gun. A source told ESPN.com’s John Clayton that the gun is registered.
Police then went to a Philadelphia car wash owned by Harrison to question him about the gun. Harrison admitted owning such a weapon, but claimed it never left his suburban Philadelphia home.
However, the source said the gun was discovered in a bucket at the car wash, and tests showed that it had fired seven bullets that matched those found at the scene.
What an idiot. I don’t know what’s more dumb - shooting a guy with lots and lots of people around to witness the event or shooting a guy with an expensive and exotic handgun that almost nobody else other then a spoiled professional athlete could afford.
Why does he even feel the need to shoot somebody? Hasn’t he read coach Tony Dungy’s book, “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life.” I haven’t gotten around to reading it myself, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t recommend shooting people with your custom-made Belgian handgun.
It turns out that when Miguel Tejada signed his first professional baseball contract in the Dominican Republic, he was 19 and not 17 as he claimed. He’s been lying about his age ever since.
At least to Major League Baseball. According to the Houston Astros — the team he plays for now — his green card, his driver’s license, and everything else that he uses in his personal life shows that he was born in 1974. Everything in baseball shows that he was born in 1976.
The thing I don’t understand is how his correct date of birth appears on his green card, yet none of the teams he has played for knew his correct age. Not only do they have to look at his green card, I believe they have to retain a copy of his green card.
Why didn’t anyone look at it?
If he has been lying about his age, what else could he be lying about? In 2005 Rafael Palmeiro was suspended for ten days after testing positive for steroids. Acording to ESPN, Palmeiro implicated Miguel Tejada to baseball’s arbitration panel saying that Tejada was responsible for his positive test. Palmeiro claimed the only thing he had ever injected himself with was vitamin B12 supplied by Tejada.
Could the B12 have really been the potent anabolic steroid stanozolol?
I’ll be totally honest and admit that I never liked Miguel Tejada. He always seemed too fat to be a shortstop. I thought he swung at the first pitch too much. He had decent numbers. I guess. I don’t think he was worth what the Orioles were paying him, but what else is new? I was glad when they traded him to the Astros.
I normally try not to post too many YouTube videos, but that rule goes out the window if it’s something that makes ESPN’s resident blow hard Chris Berman look like the douche that I know he is.In this clip, we see Chris Berman get kind of creepy with a female named Rebeca on the set for Berman’s Monday Night Football half-time segment. He gave her a bottle of wine for Christmas and he is asking if she enjoyed it. “Did you think of me when you drank it? Did you squirm a little bit?” He asks while gyrating in his chair.
Squirm? I know I winced while watching this video.
I’m not sure, but I think Berman is trying to do an offensive Asian impersonation. Rebeca told Berman that she drank the bottle in a Japanese restaurant. Pay close attention to the video at the 35 second mark. I think that is Berman trying to do an offensive Asian impersonation.
It’s obvious Berman knows just a little too much about wine and it’s a miracle that he has never been the focus of a sexual harassment lawsuit. It’s also obvious with the way these videos are being leaked that someone over at ABC hates Berman more then I do.
I didn’t know ESPN had it’s own unprofessionally dressed, flirty sports babe/sidelines reporter. I don’t think I’ve watched an ESPN Sunday Night baseball game all year and I think that’s her regular gig. Evidently, I’m one of the few people around that wasn’t aware of her.
Evidently Washington Post columnist and ESPN PTI co-host Michael Wilbon hates wearing long paints in the summer time. Knowing first hand just how hot it is right now in the Washington DC area, I really can’t blame him. In fact, I’m wearing shorts right now too.
It looks as though the all-time leader in interceptions thrown has second thoughts about being retired. Perhaps he found out that nowhere else other then in the training rooms of the NFL do they hand out Vicodin pills like Pez candy. The 
