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After Erin Andrews completed her third place finish on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” I posed the question where will she land next? And on June 15th, 2010 I wrote right here in this spot “Erin Andrews should replace Brooke Burke as host of DWTS.” It looks like ABC/Disney is listening to me because today that exact move was announced.
What follows isn’t a ranking or rating of any kind, but a list. I’ll let you decide for yourself which NFC North QB, the leader of the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, or Detroit Lions, landed the best arm-candy.
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Fox Sports’ Erin Andrews, looking bangin’ and demoing the CrossFit workout.
Wanna know how EA keeps that rockin’ bod in shape? Pick up an issue of Self magazine. When you’re in the media spotlight as much as she is, you gotta look your best. The video, and more pics after the jump.
Check out these workout programs here, you can totally get the same figure as EA with just some discipline and the right exercise.
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You have seen the last of Erin Andrews at ESPN, and she is now officially headed to Fox Sports instead. She officially became done with the WWL Friday as they let it be known today via tweet from their PR department. As you would expect for anything involving “Erin Pageviews” that tweeted was RTd thousands of times.
And now Fox Sports itself has let the new home of EA be known.
“Opportunities to add someone of Erin Andrews’ caliber don’t come along often and we’re thrilled to welcome her back to the FOX Sports family,” said Eric Shanks, executive producer, co-president and COO, FOX Sports Media Group. “Erin is one of the hardest-working, most-respected individuals in sports television and we expect her to have an immediate impact. In addition to having her anchor our new college football show and studio coverage, we expect her to be a big contributor to our MLB and NFL coverage as well as other major events.”
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So Erin Andrews, sideline reporter of sideline reporters, has a sister who’s also in show business. Kendra Andrews is a very obscure actress-model-dancer who got a degree in dance at Florida State. (Yes, I guess you can actually major in such a thing at schools in the sunshine state, but anyway, given how EA was a member of the Gators dance team in college, I’m sure the UF-FSU rivalry is always fun in the Andrews household.)
Yesterday Andrews tweeted:
Woohoo!! So proud of my sis..RT @KendraAndrews1: Here is footage from my guest star on HOUSE M.D.!!
Therefore, we present to you after the jump: Kendra Andrews as “Dina” in Season 7 Episode 22 of House M.D.
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You look at the pic above and think “what does a celebration from the Illinois Fighting Illini 2004-05 college basketball season have to do with this?” The long overdue firing of the school’s college football coach Ron Zook.
Well, when I searched for google images of “Illini celebration,” it was all hoops images. (which says something about why the Zooker is being jettisoned. And, I needed an orange and blue celebration pic for a news like this.
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In 2009, a very underachieving Illini football team finished 3-9. Picked as high as third by some Big Ten and college football pundits, the horrible record was nothing short of a catastrophe for the resume of Ron Zook and the Illinois program.
Or so I thought.
Logic dictated then Illinois Athletic Director Ron Guenther can Zook then and there. Unfortunately, Guenther had FOOLISHLY given Zook a big, expensive contract extension before that season, and buying him out would have been just about financially impossible.
So what did Guenther/Illinois do? They doubled down on a losing hand. Sort of.
They brought in two flashy, expensive coordinators to take as much responsibility off of Zook’s plate as possible. Vic Koenning for the defense, Paul Petrino for the offense.
So which one gets the gig now?
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After the unranked Baylor Bears knocked off the BCS #5 Oklahoma Sooners, the party was on. After covering the Oklahoma-Baylor game, a marquee contest during an insane weekend of college football.
That weekend included media superstar Erin Andrews getting her first Gatorade bath. Yes, nothing more be said. Watch her reaction after the jump.
And here’s our Sideline Reporter Greatest Hits by the way
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Congrats to the Minnesota Vikings Jared Allen.
He is one of 8 finalists in ESPN SportsNation’s first ever “Baddest Dude In the NFL Award,” an online vote that will allow fans to pick their favorite defensive player in the league.
You can vote after the jump
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Two years after the infamous peephole video, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews still can’t escape it – even though she put her stalker behind bars. As Andrews gears up for college football season, and her increased media presence that always accompanies it, she sat down with Marie Claire to discuss the public and private battles she’s still waging. Below you will find an excerpt from the story, “The Haunting of Erin Andrews,” which appears in the August issue of the magazine as well as the magazine cover image.
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This is going to be a fun media sensation once it gets going. Maybe not as much fun as the fall of 2005 when two Carolina Panther cheerleaders were kicked out of a nightclub for getting it on with each other in the bathroom, but still fun nonetheless.
It appears two of the Evil Empire’s most prominent eye candy –Erin Andrews and Michelle Beadle– are at odds with each other. And a new tell all book about life inside the ESPN Mothership could fan the flames.
According to Deadspin:
Michelle Beadle freely admits that she’s not a fan of Erin Andrews. “Everyone who knows me knows that,” she tells me. It hasn’t affected any of the hierarchy at ESPN at this point, but Beadle’s admission in the new ESPN oral history that she watched Erin’s peephole vid could put the WWL in the precarious position of having to side with one of their premier talents over another.
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So what happens when you mix in Erin Andrews, the Mad Hatter of LSU Les Miles, and an 86 year old college football reporter who asks questions that make him seem like the perfect Cialis pitchman?
Ted Castillo, senior citizen and LSU afficianado, worked for The Advocate from 1948-91, and put in a few years after that as a freelance writer. In the waning minutes of Miles’ postgame presser, Ted Castillo asked LSU football head coach Les Miles about being interviewed by ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews.
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