Advice to ESPN after the UNC-Wake game......
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Wouldn't necessarily say it's PC at work here.
Most men who watch sports like looking at pretty women, be it sideline reporters or cheerleaders.
Most men are horn dogs.
The networks know this.
Some women....like men....are good reporters or announcers or analysts. Some are not. Either way, they (women) are mainly judged solely on looks.
So in your world Holly Rowe should be prevented from employment because she's unattractive.
I guess it's hard for some women to be seen as unworthy in the eyes of men as good looking as us.
Straw argument. Never said any such thing. I'm sure there's other jobs that she'd be good at, but sideline reporter is not one of them. She's probably not suitable as a Victoria Secrets model either. She does have a great face for radio, though.
If 53 year old Rowe looked like a 25 year old bombshell, I doubt if anyone here would care if she spewed bile on her microphone as a sideline reporter.
That being said, and contrary to the Tom Cruises here, I think Rowe does a decent job.
I will agree to this... big time. Actually if any 53 year old woman looked like a 25 year old bombshell it'd be pretty amazing. Just saying.
If Holly Rowe lost 15 or 20 lbs she would be hot for a woman in her 50’s. From a 71 year old’s opinion.
PS: You old farts shouldn't be ogling 53-year-olds. Y'all should have your eyes on 65-year-olds.
I don't care what Billy Joel says about her. She gets a thumbs up from me
There have been many male sideline reporters during the years. Dean Blevins, Tim Fowler, Tim Lampley, etc. But, in the last 10-15 years, many of those males made the move to the broadcast booth or the studio and have been replaced on the sidelines with eye candy. If memory serves me correctly, Erin Andrews started out as a sideline reporter and now she's one of the top-paid college football taking heads on TV. I'm sure her good looks had nothing to do with her climbing the ladder in a male-dominated profession.
If you had asked me to name some sideline reporters prior to Erin Andrews, I would have drawn a blank, but I do remember thinking Dean Blevins was goofy on the sidelines at some point.
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Are you shitting me. Who really gives a crap who (man or woman) does the sideline interview?
Leslie Visser <----- one of my favs. Not only hot but man that voice
Suzy Kolber <----- no doubt the cutest female of the NFL
Phylis George <---- former Miss America but I'm not sure if she ever did sideline reporting.
BTW... Hannah Storm. Some of you may remember her early days. This is one female sports report/anchor that paid her dues. She's from Houston and back in the day (her very early days) she was a sports reporter for 97.5 fm. She had to work w/ the likes of Moby in the Morning. (think Houston's Howard Stern) Anyway, she stuck with it and made it to TV as reporter, then Anchor. She definitely paid her dues.
Actually, I think the sideline interviews are a complete waste of time, regardless of the gender of the reporter. Hearing some former player/coach rambling on about some game memory or "how the guys are doing" is distracting and in most cases, adds little or nothing of any real interest.
Let us know about a player's condition or get the coach's thoughts at halftime as he's leaving the field, but if I never see another sideline interview, that's okay with me. Unless I'm the one being interviewed, then I want all of America to see it!
I remember sports commentator Anita Martini on the radio in Houston on KPRC during the 1970's. This was a job she held for 14 years. She worked hard and did her homework.
She raised all kinds of hell when she reported that the NCAA had "satellite schools" (with preferential treatment) to help detect recruiting violations and she mentioned Texas as one such school. Horns fans were pissed...guess the truth hurts sometimes.....but she really just revealed something that was common knowledge. Houston and Oklahoma fans knew this. A sign at a Houston-Texas game during the late 1970's said of Texas, "Texas, if you can't beat 'em, probate 'em".
Finally, I have seen/heard a lot of announcers, sideline reporters, talking heads as we all have. Some are very good, some are so-so and some just suck....and some are men and some are women.
She raised all kinds of hell when she reported that the NCAA had "satellite schools" (with preferential treatment) to help detect recruiting violations and she mentioned Texas as one such school. Horns fans were pissed...guess the truth hurts sometimes.....but she really just revealed something that was common knowledge. Houston and Oklahoma fans knew this. A sign at a Houston-Texas game during the late 1970's said of Texas, "Texas, if you can't beat 'em, probate 'em".
Finally, I have seen/heard a lot of announcers, sideline reporters, talking heads as we all have. Some are very good, some are so-so and some just suck....and some are men and some are women.
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Yep... she was pretty good. If I recall correctly she died sometime in the late 80's or early 90's. She was fairly young too.... mid 50's or so. She was a strong radio reporter for sure. She was the first female journalist to enter a men's locker room too. I had forgotten all about her.
Its not just sideline reporting lots of local tv news have female sports anchors and reporters as well, some are usually hot some so so. I have yet to see an ugly one, go figure.
Rowe was interviewed in ESPN's "150 Years of College Football" documentary and talked about how the Big Ten was more of a running game league due to the colder climate in games in November and how the Big Ten is still more of a running game league than conferences in warmer climates.
She also mentioned how coaches of small college teams have to be more creative with their personnel because of the lesser talent on hand. I thought of Switzer's hire of Mack Brown from Appalachian State to be OU's offensive coordinator before the 1984 season. Brown put in a few wrinkles that season with Danny Bradley at QB and Sewell, Tillman and Carr in the starting backfield, with Keith Jackson at TE and Derrick Shepard at WR.
She also mentioned how coaches of small college teams have to be more creative with their personnel because of the lesser talent on hand. I thought of Switzer's hire of Mack Brown from Appalachian State to be OU's offensive coordinator before the 1984 season. Brown put in a few wrinkles that season with Danny Bradley at QB and Sewell, Tillman and Carr in the starting backfield, with Keith Jackson at TE and Derrick Shepard at WR.
It's pointless when they cut to the sideline reporter just to justify their job. I think there are occasions where they serve a purpose (injuries, fights, over-hearing comments), but if none of that is going on, it's a distraction.
I liked the way Siragusa was involved in sideline reporting where he's more of a 3rd commentator that's down on the sidelines and can bring the value of the aforementioned scenarios as necessary.
I liked the way Siragusa was involved in sideline reporting where he's more of a 3rd commentator that's down on the sidelines and can bring the value of the aforementioned scenarios as necessary.
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