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Posted May 18th 2009 3:37PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, Celebrities, Reality-Free

There'll be a new face in the
Monday Night Football booth this season.
Pardon The Interruption's Tony Kornheiser is out after three years and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach – and Super Bowl winner -- Jon Gruden, is in. Gruden, who was dumped by the Bucs at the end of last season, has been sitting in on ESPN as a commentator, so this is a logical progression for him, although he does claim that he wants to be a head coach again some time in the future.
That's an interesting notion because usually when a guy gets into the booth, he doesn't get out. Dick Vermeil is one of the few to jump back and forth;
John Madden, who retired from NBC less than a month ago, was one who never returned to the sidelines.
Continue reading Monday Night Football shakeup: Kornheiser out, Gruden in
Posted Oct 30th 2008 2:15PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Sports, Celebrities, Reality-Free

At the rate they're going, the 2008 presidential candidates will have made appearances on every kind of TV program before voting day arrives. No show is too insignificant, it seems. (Seriously, if only we could have seen Obama and McCain do the cha-cha on
Dancing with the Stars!)
Therefore, it comes as no big shock that on the eve of the election -- Monday, November 3 -- the presidential
candidates are going to appear on ESPN's Monday Night Football.
They will be interviewed -- separately on tape -- by half-time anchor Chris "Boomer" Berman. The anticipated time is 10:15 p.m. (ET), but because of the flow of the game, it could be closer to 10:30.
Continue reading Monday Night Football to feature McCain & Obama on election eve