Bucher to work Rockets/Jazz Game 4 in Utah.

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FanHouse found this 4/21/2008 on sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com [flag]
Fresh off of controversial comments about Jazz fans and Mormons, ESPN analyst Ric Bucher has been assigned to Game 4 of the Rockets/Jazz series at Energy Solutions Arena on Saturday night. Bucher will be the sideline reporter for the game, with announcers Dave Pasch and Rick Carlisle. Recently, Bucher attempted to explain Utah's home court advantage by saying that because "[t]hey're Mormon", [link]

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Ric Bucher, Foot Firmly in Mouth, Will Hop to Salt Lake City Next Weekend
Published 4/21/2008 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... Bucher will test that hospitality on Saturday as he's working ESPN's broadcast of Game 4 between the Jazz and Rockets. Will he receive a harsh reaction from the EnergySolutions crowd? Almost certainly. (From the picture above, I'm guessing Bucher needs to be most wary of Kris Kross inspired teenagers and deceptively ruthless elderly couples.) ...

Ric Bucher’s Dennis Rodman Moment
Published 4/22/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... ?), ESPN seems to have banished Bucher … to Utah for this week’s festivities in the tremendously boring Rockets-Jazz series. Forget about how Jazz fans will serenade him with boos - the real story here is how crushed Bucher must be that he can’t service his boy Kobe and ...

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