UFL beer snake leader interview features on-the-spot pivot from ESPN’s Kayla Burton
"I was shirtless holding the beer snake before Birmingham and their shirtless boys, all right?"
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Holly Rowe had a perfect interview with Flau’jae Johnson on rap and basketball
"She does rap, her new single is 'It Ain't My Fault,' but today, this win was your fault." "It is our fault!"
The 2023 Awfulies: Best and worst sports media moments of the year
In both instances, entire swaths of media members swarmed to the issue to make their voices heard.
Suzy Shuster talks ‘What The Football,’ Amy Trask, Real Sports, and ‘overlooked and underestimated’ female sports fans
Steve Kerr on Richard Jefferson in sideline interview: ‘Never heard of him.’
"I'm sorry, who was this guy you're talking about? Richard who?"
Erin Andrews’ spokesperson responds to past comments about making up reports
"For her entire career, Erin Andrews has worked very closely with coaches, players, and P.R. staffs to ensure accuracy in her reporting."
Andrea Kremer: Charissa Thompson comments ‘made a mockery’ of sideline reporting
Charissa Thompson lost touch with the context, history, and privilege involved in sideline reporting
Sports media world shocked by Charissa Thompson admitting to fabricating sideline reports
"This is not normal or ethical."
CFL gets Castellanosed, with sideline feature on plant sculpture weddings interrupted by touchdown
Kenzie Lalonde's sculpture wedding feature was interrupted by a 64-yard catch and run TD from Hamilton's Tyreik McAllister.
The XFL’s focus on access provides opportunities for players, as well as sideline reporters
XFL coach Terrell Buckley calls out his own team during in-game interview
"I got guys out there that are not competing, that are not making plays."
NLL goalie Alex Buque lives up to ‘Have the censor button close by!’ billing
"There is nothing like an Alex Buque post-game interview. Have the censor button close by!"
Michele Tafoya has ‘hesitations’ about whether Lisa Guerrero had a ‘devastating’ miscarriage
"I don’t know why you would wait to publish a book 15 years after the fact to reveal this to your best friends. And so, I have my hesitation about, was this truly a devastating miscarriage?"
Pam Oliver returning to Fox sidelines for 29th NFL season
"I’ve kind of been assured for as long as I want to do this job, I can."
Lisa Guerrero reveals she suffered a miscarriage during a Monday Night Football broadcast: ‘I felt such shame and embarrassment’
"When I felt a dampness between my legs, I thought, ‘Oh, I got my period.’ And then I remembered I was pregnant. I was having a miscarriage."
Looking back at five memorable Mike Leach media moments
From mascot fights to dinosaur arms to inner pirates, Leach certainly had some memorable quips.
Former ESPN sideline reporter Allison Williams joins Fox Sports
"Having to step away from the sport and profession I love this past year has re-affirmed and reinvigorated the passion I have for this job."
Charissa Thompson and Erin Andrews discuss how NFL coaches have often told them nothing, leading to interesting “reports”
"I was like 'Oh f*ck, this isn’t gonna work.'"
Pam Oliver on chronic migraines: ‘I’ve fought through it more than I’ve failed getting through it during a football game’
"I feel like they've gotten better, just from the standpoint of having fewer. But...they continue to plague me."
Allison Williams is leaving ESPN over COVID-19 vaccine mandate, says “I am so morally and ethically not aligned with this.”
"In addition to the medical apprehensions regarding my desire to have another child in regards to receiving this injection¹, I am also so morally and ethically not aligned with this. And I've had to really dig deep and analyze my values and my morals, and ultimately I need to put them first."
AJ Ross talks her first March Madness sideline reporting role, taking her playing experience into sports media: “It’s a dream come true.”
"I couldn't be more elated and excited."
Lisa Guerrero recounts her traumatic experience as Monday Night Football sideline reporter
“I considered killing myself,” Guerrero told the New York Post's Andrew Marchand.
ESPN’s Shelley Smith shared a story of her niece getting hit in the head with ice at a past Oregon-Oregon State game
"Once I was here with my niece Vanessa, who was wearing a Ducks' jacket, and she got hit on the head with a chunk of ice. It didn't knock her out, but it knocked her silly."
Report: NBC Sports Regional Networks to move away from in-game reporting outside broadcast booth
As per Kevin Kinkead of Crossing Broad, "the NBC Sports Regional Networks are completely doing away with sideline reporters at the end of the season."
