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The Words That Helped Sukanya Roy Win the Scripps National Spelling Bee
As funny as it is to watch videos of spelling bee contestants almost faint under the pressure of articulating impossibly tricky words, the video of Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Sukanya Roy spelling the final word is so sweet. She does what many kids do — writing frantically on her hand to visualize the letters — but you see the moment where she realizes, halfway through the word, that she’s through the worst part. As she announces the last few letters, her face lights up and she even lets out a relieved laugh on the final “s.” Oh, and the word is cymotrichous, a Greek-to-French word which describes having wavy hair. More »
The Black Eyed Peas May Have Failed The Super Bowl, But Taboo Has The Best Gig Ever
If you listen to Twitter (and the small sample size from the party where I watched the Super Bowl last night), the Black Eyed Peas made a pretty dismal showing during halftime at America’s Most Important Sporting Event (aside from the Puppy Bowl). But considering that I handpick everyone I follow on Twitter, I thought it was a little premature to mark their performance as an utter failure. However! Now ESPN has done that for me.
Witness the above map of America. ESPN readers were permitted to rank the band’s show on a scale of A through F. But ESPN’s readers universally gave the Black Eyed Peas performance a failing mark.
Perhaps polling ESPN’s audience isn’t the most scientific way to gauge the success of a band who continues to dominate the pop charts. (Somebody – lots of somebodies – must like them for that to happen, right?) But surely, we can all agree on one thing: Black Eyed Peas bandmate Taboo has got the sweetest gig in the music industry. More »
Erin Andrews On ‘DWTS’: Bimbo-fying?
Here’s an interesting take on the decision of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews to join the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars: she’s taking her peep-hole scandal one step further by launching herself “into the sphere of celebrity,” which is “becoming a greater draw than her journalism.”
Since being a female sports reporter is working in a man’s world, once she slaps on the sparkles and spandex she may never be taken seriously in her profession again. That may be… More »
Jaslene Gonzalez at ESPN The Magazine Party
On March 12, America’s Next Top Model Cycle 8 winner Jaslene Gonzalez attended the ESPN The Magazine’s 10th Anniversary Celebration in New York City!
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I like her jacket, but am unsure about her dress. What do you think?… More »