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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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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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Now that Michelle Beadle is leaving ESPN, and Charissa Thompson is replacing her as the host of “SportsNation,” the question is…who replaces Charissa at “Numbers Don’t Lie?” I’m sure both the people who watch that show are very interested to find out.
No seriously, the real question is what will become of Erin Andrews? Her star power isn’t what it once was, so is she gonna stay at ESPN when her contract expires? Check out this tweet exchange between EA and Hot Clicks proprietor Jimmy Traina from a couple hours ago:
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It appears ESPN sideline princess Erin Andrews, the ultra-famous reporter rumored to be dating Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, will renew her contract at ESPN.
According to the USA Today
•Erin Andrews and ESPN have tentatively agreed to a new deal to replace her current one, which expires this week. ESPN executive Norby Williamson, declining to say how Andrews’ on-air roles might change, says, “We hope to have a deal signed soon.”
Read the whole piece here
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Apparently, there’s a new heiress to the supposed “Sideline Princess” throne. Watch tonight with the Thursday night college football game of the week.
ESPN’s Jenn Brown is a former bikini model (which obviously gave her more journalistic credentials than even Medill graduates) and gymnast (again making her clearly more qualified in news reporting than the thousands of experienced j-school grads dying for her job). She also attended the same school (University of Florida) as the reigning Media Princess Erin Andrews.
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Feel old? You will now: Britney Spears turned 30 yesterday. (Popwatch) I remember back in junior year of college when she burst onto the scene as Little Ms. Jailbait. And some dude in the school paper wrote an op-ed saying something to the extent of “Spears is making Lolita Complexes fashionable right now, but chill out. By the time she’s 25, she’ll be a really fat, divorced single mom.” (It wasn’t me- I swear!)
Damn, he nailed that one. The only part he didn’t prophesize was her second divorce and comeback/weight loss.
-The Erin Andrews peephole video saga is very far from over
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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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Fans of the Florida Gators will understand this piece.
Actually non college football fans will probably understand it even.
It feels like we publish this column every season. Last year, we did the “Did Ron Zook’s play-calling cost Illinois a win?” story after the Illini had a chance to upset then #2 Ohio State at home in the Big Ten conference opener. Go here to brush up on that.
And then there’s the 2006 loss to the Indiana Hoosiers, in which Zook inexplicably went for 2-pt conversions not once, but twice (both attempts failed) with the game tied early in the second quarter of what ended up being a 1-pt loss. The Zooker told the media afterward that the decisions didn’t matter.
Even though it was a ONE point loss (32-31), but yeah…
..the Zook terrible decision making season got started earlier in 2011. This time it happened in the pre-conference, and the questionable play-calls didn’t actually cost them a victory, as the Illini held on to beat Western Michigan 23-20.
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