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Samantha Steele to Replace Erin Andrews as Host of Gameday on ESPNU; Heather Cox New Saturday Night Sideline Reporter

Samantha Steele to Replace Erin Andrews as Host of Gameday on ESPNU; Heather Cox New Saturday Night Sideline Reporter

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Samantha Steele to Replace Erin Andrews as Host of Gameday on ESPNU; Heather Cox New Saturday Night Sideline Reporter

Samantha Steele, a rising star at ESPN, has been tabbed as the replacement for Erin Andrews as co-host of ESPNU’s 9 am College Football Gameday Show on Saturdays this fall, sources tell The Big Lead. In addition, Steele will be featured on Gameday on ESPN at 10 am in the same capacity Andrews was.

Additionally, ESPN has selected Heather Cox as the replacement for Andrews on ABC’s Saturday night College Football game of the week. She’ll be paired with the network’s top announcing pair of Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit.

Both decisions were made this morning and are expected to be announced next week.

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  • njensen79

    What’s up with all these “reporters” having porn star names?

  • T-Bone: Bear Pounder

    Yes and Yes

  • https://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/10/12/ncaa-finds-no-major-violations-in-the-cam-newtonauburn-ca rittyrich

    Our long national nightmare is over. Rise up from the malaise, everyone.

  • geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate!

    Love disappearing posts.

  • A.P.

    two thumbs up. Good choices for the respective roles

  • A.P.

    what disappeared, geoffrey?

  • https://twitter.com/#!/GloriousMullet GloriousMullet

    I likes it

  • ms621

    This is a relief. I was worried that I’d never hear about any injury reports during games or coach interviews filled with empty platitudes like “We have to execute better”.

  • kaiserwilhelmreems

    the blonde looks like a young, chubby erin andrews. and the redhead looks like soft, warm lighting will be required for HD.

    yes and yes nonetheless.

  • kaiserwilhelmreems

    Love disappearing posts.

    was it the explanation as to why it was “SAD” PSU received a spike in donations?

  • A.P.

    the blonde looks like a young, chubby erin andrews

    nothin chubby about that lady

  • kaiserwilhelmreems

    nothin chubby about that lady

    her face at least. ESPN won’t hire fatties.

  • A.P.

    yes and yes nonetheless

    you guys are pigs, always saying which girls you’d bang

    /crackerjack, that one day

  • A.P.

    her face at least. ESPN won’t hire fatties.

    Shelley Smith

  • MP III

    her face at least. ESPN won’t hire fatties.

    Shelley Smith

    i see your shelly smith, and raise you a jemelle hill.

  • T-Bone: Bear Pounder

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    yes and yes nonetheless

    you guys are pigs, always saying which girls you’d bang

    /crackerjack, that one day

    Well, let’s really piss her off then — solo with EA > menage with these two?

  • kaiserwilhelmreems

    Shelley Smith

    she’s still there? was she the one married to an exec in ESPN?

  • A.P.

    i see your shelly smith, and raise you a jemelle hill.

    that’s just thick.

  • Bob Chipeska

    What’s up with all these “reporters” having porn star names?

    I thought the same thing

    her face at least. ESPN won’t hire fatties.

    Shelley Smith

    haven’t seen old Jelley Smith in a while, is she still around?

  • A.P.

    Well, let’s really piss her off then — solo with EA > menage with these two?

    team redhead so ill take the two

  • Some Random Old Dude

    and the redhead looks like soft, warm lighting will be required for HD.

    “you supply the night, baby, I’ll supply the love”

  • A.P.

    shelley smith does a lot of the west coast reporting. I think she lives in Oregon or somewhere in the pacific NW

  • https://twitter.com/#!/CuriousGeorger molemaninthemorning

    Rise up from the malaise, everyone.

    MALAISE FOREVER

  • http://twitter.com/SouvenirCity SouvenirCity

    Why doesn’t Ken Fang do these posts? Isn’t Fangs Bites part of the BLS Network? Just seems like the company already has a beat reporter dedicated to this type of work and these are just saturation.

  • http://www.twitter.com/kcresident KC Resident

    i see your shelly smith, and raise you a jemelle hill.

    I’ll raise you Hannah Storm.

    /Brad Clooney’d

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