Most one and all seems to commiserate with Andrews having her surreptitiousness violated, but after that, contest goes off in many directions. The website Deadspin has every so often published cupcake photos of Andrews, but its past stumble is now wearing the hairshirt. Will Leitch wrote, "I'm not confident I could face her in the eye. I'm not established anybody could.
" USA Today columnist Christine Brennan was more sanguine, writing, "Women sports journalists insufficiency to be au fait and not action to the frat house." (A note that set off a stream of commentary on the Web.) On The Fan 590, Rogers Sportsnet legion Mike Toth suggested that girlish women including Sportsnet co-workers Martine Gaillard and Evanka Osmak get by with less than unrivalled knowing of sports. "This is wealthy to echo harsh," Toth said.
"But be that as it may, here it comes: There are no female sportscasters that I can dream of that have more grasp than their c spear counterparts." Toth also suggested that women at his network get more promotional outings and publicity because of their looks: "From a social relations standpoint, do you want Mike Toth to MC your golf tournament? …; The females within the confines of Sportsnet's newsroom get more of an opening to do that species of thing." To which Usual Suspects says, we will be exultant to crowd a reputation Jeopardy sports-trivia confront between Toth and the female co-worker of his choice. Name the age and place, Mike.
Meantime, Andrews is now off the feeling till college football begins in September. Off the air, too, are several New York Post reporters who all things considered present to ESPN. The Post published photos of Andrews from the disputatious video made by unsung parties using a peephole in her room. The Post fired back at ESPN yesterday, saying the network itself outed Andrews on the grainy video, thereby causing the summary to explode.
Had they not made disreputable their displeasure, no one could have identified Andrews on the inexpert video, claimed the Post. The website Rumours & Rants did on Andrews and took the, er …; minor road: "While they are and barrel creepy in every way, I have to for instance that notwithstanding the grainy quality, it is entirely Erin Andrews. And she looks incredible. She looks better than any of us could have ever hoped. She has really nothing flaws.
So while I belief they round up this creep, Erin Andrews has nothing to be sheepish of." Radio Static So there we were, in our other pretence as transmit talking head, waiting for a telephone to go on the breath at 4:05 PT with David Pratt & Don Taylor, the top-rated afternoon hosts on the Team 1040 in Vancouver. But the phone did not eyelet at 4:05. Nor at 4:10, 4:15, 4:20. Finally we called the studio and were told that there'd been "technical difficulties".
Finally we made it to display at 4:30, but only David Pratt was on air. How bizarre. As Vancouver listeners knew better, "technical difficulties" was a deliberate on-air and off-air uproar between the hosts, one that resulted in the marry being off the expose the following day. ("Hurricane Katrina" as Pratt later described the flurry to us.) The genesis of the dispute was tender enough: Pratt's contention that Tom Watson's near-miss at the British Open could be compared to the exploits of poker geezer Doyle Brunson, who's still taking tournaments in his 70s. Taylor strenuously disagreed.
Next thing, Taylor was announcing that Pratt had Heraldry sinister the studio. Explains Pratt, "I've played tight Vegas poker tournaments, and I've never been so humbled both physically and mentally. I though Brunson, a great poker player, made a fab analogy with Watson. When Don disagreed I said, 'Have you ever played at that level?' And the gas was out of tank, the lighted cigar was thrown on the thing.
" What followed on-air was about 20 minutes of recorded interviews, PSAs, commercials and then, at 4:30, Pratt re-appeared unassisted to question period you-know-who (us) about guess-who (Watson). In slightly awkward fashion. Off-air there was a skilful deal of shouting and disharmony between the two hosts. Chat sites instantly picked up the thread, speculating on the fallout. "Don't they on the whole sit tight until ratings for these stunts?" mused one bard.
Rob Grey, the program commander for the Team 1040, summoned the up for a intersection the next prime and let B.C. Lions bingo caller Rick Ball sub for the disputatious duo. "We talked about it, and the guys declared their commitment to the show," Grey told Usual Suspects Thursday. "It was one of those things, but now it's behind us and we're working forward.
We meditate we have a great confederation in David and Don."" Says Pratt, "We've been 'married' for six years, and this is out from the start spat. These things can happen when you get two rather elephantine egos in a confined space.
Anyone who's been married knows that some of the biggest fights you don't conscious what you're fighting about. So Rob Gray had us fasten upon a heyday off to referee what's happening. And we looked at a 15 apportion and the TV show, and we said, 'What's to action about?' We're convincing friends and we'll deferment that way." Double defect If you disposed to Primetime Sports, you'll have twice as much Bob McCown to passion come the fall.
In its Ontario and East regions, Rogers Sportsnet is succeeding to show both hours of McCown's show with inserts from Sportsnet Connected. According to David Akande, vice-president of programming at Rogers, the network was looking to enlarge the vogue of McCown's show, not delete Connected. Sportsnet Connected will only be seen in total at the dinner hour by the two Western regions of the sports provider, with Pratt & Taylor continuing their palaver show on Pacific.
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