Erin Andrews Hosts ESPNs College GameDay

ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews is taking a step up in the world of sports reporting.  While she continues to do sideline reporting of various sports, she’s adding a new gig as one of the hosts of ESPN’s college football pregame show College GameDay, with the premier on September 4th.  This season, the show starts at 9:00 A.M. eastern on ESPNU, and then shifts over to ESPN at 10:00.  Andrews will anchor the first hour, then be a reporter for the next hour of the show.   The new assignment is part of her new deal with ESPN, and supposedly includes some appearances on ABC’s Good Morning America.  “Hazing not just for NFL rookies” she tweeted.  The GmDay rookie is getting it too…All in good fun”.

Andrews’ star has been rising since she began her sports reporting career in Florida back in 2000.  She’s covered college football and basketball, the National Hockey League, and Major League Baseball.  Earlier this year, she and her partner place third on TV’s Dancing with the Stars.

In 2009, Andrews made headlines when she became the victim of a high tech stalker.  A man videotaped her through her hotel room peephole and then posted the video on the internet and tried to sell it to TMZ.  The FBI arrested the jackass, and he was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender when he gets out.  Andrews has been active in lobbying for increased penalties for stalkers.

College GameDay with Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, and Desmond Howard in addition to Erin Andrews, is usually broadcast from college football game venues across the country.  The show is usually done outside, and draws big crowds.  The crowds will be even bigger with Erin Andrews joining the party.

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