Monday during the College World Series game between Arkansas and LSU, ESPN2 had a bit of a snafu with their footage of America's sideline princess. For 10-15 seconds the network, according to a viewer who e-mailed the screen grab on the right, switched to a camera angle that featured a, how shall we put this delicately, derrière shot of Ms. Andrews.
Doubtless ESPN has an awful lot of cameras covering the on-field action, but this one ... not so much.
She's the sports world's sports girl, and she may be coming at you from a completely different perspective if Erin Andrews can somehow get her way. Andrews, the darling sideline reporter for ESPN, admitted that she is interesting in appearing on "Dancing With the Stars."
I think we all can agree she's cuter than Kenny Mayne.
Dan Steinberg over at The Sporting Blog caught with Andrews and got some great stuff from the 31-year-old, including her admission to wanting a seat on DWTS in the future.
The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.
Jeremy Schaap has had a busy past few days -- not only is he preparing for the upcoming E:60 episode (Tuesday at 7 PM ET) with a phenomenal story about a bar brawl at Binghamton University that became an international incident, but he also recently broke the news that Brett Favre would return to the Vikings if their medical team approves his X-rays. Of course, the latter part hasn't been completely confirmed yet, but it did spark a war between ESPN and Yahoo! (Yes, I would have added the exclamation point anyway.) And Schapp was kind enough to speak to me late last week about both reports.
The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.
Brett Favre is beyond played out at this point. We get it: he's probably going to the Vikings. And in doing so, he's tearing apart two fan bases and dividing the entire Midwest in half. What are we gonna do?
Call FanHouse writer, lifelong Packers fan and Minnesota resident Bruce Ciskie for answers, that's what. Besides Favre, somehow the miraculous happens and we ask him about hockey matches games. Bruce is so persuasive that I get talked into watching the Pens-Caps game on Versus. Awesomeness ensues. (Also: Subscribe via iTunes. Because you love us.)
Erin Andrews. Google her name and you'll get about 771,000 results, many of which are blogs that obsess over the ESPN sportscaster's every word. But meet her in person and you'll find a woman who may seem like you or I, stunning good looks aside. She loves sports, remembers old Nintendo games, and yes, does get her feelings hurt from time to time.
FanHouse recently had a chance to chat with the most popular female sports reporter at the NCAA Football 10 premiere party to find out what drives her, what gets under her skin, and whether she'd drop her career to be a backup dancer for Britney Spears. Our full interview with Andrews is below.
The above video, and more than 100 like it, appears at the official ESPN channel on YouTube, a channel that hardly anyone knows about right now but is undoubtedly going to be a huge step forward for sports content on the web.
However, my colleague and podcast partner Ryan Wilson pointed out to me that during Andrews' recent interview with FanHouse, she was flashing some serious bling. Bling that just happened to be placed on her left ring finger (close-up after the jump) while she was telling Ariel Helwani that she wasn't interested in him.
The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.
Day 5 of a long podcasting week arrives and we're pleased to bring on ESPN's own Qadry Ismael -- an especially relevant guest considering all the news about wide receivers in this year's draft (ahem, Percy Harvin) and Qadry's own first-hand knowledge and ensuing analysis of the draft process.
After the jump, we talk to Qadry about Harvin's chances, Darrius Heyward-Bey's draft stock, who the Giants need to fill Plaxico Burress' shoes (and whether it could be Braylon Edwards) and how Qadry would feel if he came back to campus at Syracuse for his senior season to find out Greg Paulus was throwing balls his way.
An English teacher in China got a rather brilliant idea for how to get his students to practice speaking conversationally: Recite the conversations that Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon have on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption.
The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.
Kathleen Hessert, the President of Sports Media Challenge, had a vision in 2004 of a technologically superior method of determining the "buzz" surrounding a particular athlete, organization or team. It finally came to full-on fruition this past week when ESPN began running their "Blog Buzz" segments during the morning SportsCenter.
Perhaps even more impressively, Kathleen is also responsible for bringing Shaquille O'Nealinto the world of Twitter. And she was kind enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to talk with Ryan Wilson and me about the changing world of sports media, athletes on Twitter (and why Wilson should sign up; I'm already there as is FanHouse), the vision and history behind the "Buzz Manager," and the importance of fan-driven media in today's sports world.
If you care about the emergence of blogs and their co-existence with mainstream media, you'd be doing yourself a disservice not to listen.
She's the sports world's sports girl, and she may be coming at you from a completely different perspective if Erin Andrews can somehow get her way. Andrews, the darling sideline reporter for ESPN, admitted that she is interesting in appearing on "Dancing With the Stars."
Jeremy Schaap has had a busy past few days -- not only is he preparing for the upcoming E:60 episode (Tuesday at 7 PM ET) with a phenomenal story about a bar brawl at Binghamton University that became an international incident, but he also recently broke the news that Brett Favre would return to the Vikings if their medical team approves his X-rays. Of course, the latter part hasn't been completely confirmed yet, but it did spark a war between ESPN and Yahoo! (Yes, I would have added the exclamation point anyway.) And Schapp was kind enough to speak to me late last week about both reports.
The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.
Erin Andrews. Google her name and you'll get about 771,000 results, many of which are blogs that obsess over the ESPN sportscaster's every word. But meet her in person and you'll find a woman who may seem like you or I, stunning good looks aside. She loves sports, remembers old Nintendo games, and yes, does get her feelings hurt from time to time.
The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.
