awfulannouncing.blogspot.com - 12/3/2007
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I think for about a brief second I didn't believe Herbstreit's report yesterday, and that wasn't really the point of the post in the first place. Whether he was right or wrong it was still sketchy in how ESPN brought the information to us. Anyway, Kirk is sticking by his source today.... I'm inclined to believe Kirk, but even moreso after Les Miles showed up on Sports Center to try and ...
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Chicago Bears, were you watching?
The FynalCut —
... Ol’ Captain Kirk Herbstreit got us off to a great start by reporting something, eating his words, then spitting them right back out again. And I don’t want to get all high and mighty here (I am presently writing a blog after all), but it just seems like we see more of this premature/flat-out-wrong reporting when it’s former athletes “breaking” the news and not real reporters (no, that doesn’t include you Andy Katz). Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m sure there is another blog out there keeping tabs on that kind of stuff. ...
Herbstreit: 'You will never see me gathering news and reporting information ever again'
Construda —
... as the next head coach of college football's winningest program. Miles held a press conference at the Georgia Dome before LSU's SEC title game on Saturday and angrily derided the report as false. Herbstreit initially stuck to his report, and source , but later admitted his report wasn't accurate for the time it was released. Apparently, his information came from earlier in the week, not on Saturday morning. Herby spoke with Detroit's WDFN-AM sports talk radio station and had some ...
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