Michelle Beadle

Help me understand something.

Is the majority of the noise around her seriously about a couple throwaway comments re: Erin Andrews and some rumor that she got slithered after the ESPYs? Or is she, you know, doing good work on Sportsnation?

I saw her work, I dunno, two years ago. Seemed good, but Sportsnation (and Colin Cowherd) isn't someone I have a real passion to watch. I figured she would have moved on to something more substantial by now.

 

I find her very likeable. Never met her. But she's very likeable on TV.

 

Deadspin has run some stuff about her banging (or trying to bang) Clay Matthews at the ESPYs, I think.

 

Know a college age male who loves Beadle. That's her crowd, even if she is in her what late 30s?

 

Does anyone really consider her a journalists?

 

She's a dead ringer from the woman from Reno 911.

 

In the shorts? Um, that's not a woman.

 

Her appeal is that, as IJAG said, she's likeable, and as Second Thoughts almost said, she's attractive.

She seems approachable. She seems like the type of person who realistically could walk up to a guy and say "I just want to get fucked," which is, of course, every 20-something-year-old man's fantasy. And she seems knowledgeable about sports, especially next to Colin Cowherd.

 

Agree on all of this. She just has an airiness about her that translates really well to television. If anything, I'd say she's miscast at ESPN, except that she genuinely seems to love sports. She seems like she would be a natural for the Hannah Storm career path.

 

I'm wondering if leaving the WWL might be in her best interest if this is the path she's following? In the early days, ESPN had quite a few female anchors (Gayle Gardner and Robin Roberts are at the top of the class, of course), but, beyond Storm, Doris Burke and Pam Oliver (who they keep force-feeding us), few seem to rise beyond the ranks of reporters or sideline reporters (is Michelle Tafoya still on the payroll?).

 

It was Aaron Rodgers:

http://deadspin.com/5827414/did-michelle-beadle-tell-aaron-rodgers-i-just-wanna-get-fucked-after-the-espys-espn-wants-to-know