May 27, 2004 - LOS ANGELES - (Thursday, May 27, 2004) - WUSA Philadelphia Charge and U.S. women's national soccer team defender Heather Mitts will appear on CBS's "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" tonight (Thursday evening) at 12:35 am (check local listings for the specific time in your area). Mitts, who will discuss the upcoming WUSA Soccer Festivals, will join Tom Arnold and the rock band Blondie as guests on the program. http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3040196&l_id=&t_id=
THIS IS LUDICROUS!!!! I can't believe Heather Mitts is using her sexuality to promote the league!!!!!!!!!! Next thing you know all you'll hear at USWNT games is "HEATHER!!! HEATHER!!!!" It's about the sport people! Not about the personalities!!! C'mon you soccer purists! Are you with me on this one?!!?!?
Daisy Fuentes. And is it just me, or has Craig Kilborn made to major career mistakes? First leaving ESPN for The Daily Show, then leaving The Daily Show for his current gig.
No arguement here. Poor decision-making, unless the $$ is better. Of course, the shows aren't. Since I know nothing about any of the moves (other than they happened) were they all his doing or was he fired from one or the other?
Leaving the ESPN job must have been the worst move he ever made. That has got to be the best job in the world, aside from donut taste-testing.
The money is dramatically better at CBS than Kilborn was getting paid at The Daily Show. Stewart now gets paid a ton, but that's after years of making the show much more of a force. The Daily Show as we know it was very different with Kilborn as its primary force. Leaving the ESPN anchor seat the worst move ever? Former anchors: Berman, Ley, Olbermann, Eisen, Kilborn, Mayne ... at some point you want to do something else, that's more interesting. Even look at Dan Patrick's radio show. I think I'd go nuts on a Tuesday in August, when the only things that ESPN producers would want me to talk about are fifteen games of baseball highlights, preseason NFL cuts, and the new BCS system.
He may have left for similar reasons that Olbermann left. (Except that Olbermann's was exacerbated by his inability to drive) Keith left because the dating scene in Bristol is apparently for sucks.
[Correction] Heather Mitts will be on the late late show tonight. so don't miss it http://www.cbs.com/latenight/latelate/guest/
We do every possible ways to promote soccer to the wider audience...i don't think it's a problem at all, you gotta think positive Fear9.
you guys want to know the best way to promote w-soccer ? follow recent Blatter's idea...guarantee sold out all the time.
Seems on TV, and in sport, maybe in life: the very good looking and marginally talented will win over the marginally good looking and very talented. It's just human nature; we don't like to look at unattractive people. Of coarse Heather Mitts is on TV; the WUSA and WNT would be dumb not to premote her. I would love it if it were just about sport, but that's just not very realistic.
Hmmm, I should be watching TV right now--but I've never seen his show, and want to go to bed now. Anyway, I hope she did better then her WWC gig; she wasn't awful at that, but I wasn't impressed either. What did she have to say? Did she talk about the residency camp, how it's going? The Olympics? Did she talk about the WUSA, and upcoming festivals? Or did Craig K. just ask about her--i.e. "how is it being so good looking?" and stuff like that?
Interesting course this thread is going down. I saw the interview by luck and was so interested by what she was going to say (b/c she was billed as a "soccer superstar" and hasn't played much in the past year) that I didn't think much about anything else but the sport element. Sorry, just the way I am and have been since watching the women play since the late '90s. It wasn't until I got on here to see if there was any talk about her appearance on the show that people were talking about the sexuality component. Who cares??? Have some people never seen a female player before??? Jeezy creezy people, go to some games and get it out of your system. And if you can't, don't go b/c it will distract from those of us watching the SPORT.
Very simple stuff she talked about. At one point she even explained part of the sport (red cards and such). She said that her worst jab was when she got elbowed in the throat and the ref allowed her a foul later on. She mentioned her goal drought of 3 years, but that she plays defense. She mentioned the residency a little, but seemed concerned that she might not make the roster b/c only 18 can go to Athens and she was cut when 20 were on the roster for the WWC. She did a small plug for the WUSA games in LA at THDC. She talked a little about the FHM photos and what she had to do for them. Talked about where she now lives and .... I think that was the gist of it. I was pleasantly surprised at how much time was spent on the soccer portion, though it felt like the audience had their eyes glasing over with "soccer" boredom.
I'm glad to see Craig has his hormones in check. I'm also glad to see they were using someone besides Mia Hamm, even though it had to be a "sexy supermodel type". Nothing against Mitts. She's great overall and seems like she'd be fun to meet. But it's a shame (perhaps necessary, perhaps not) that sex is being used to sell this. But then I see the reverse happen, as well: women going to NHL matches to see studly guys. I suppose it's not a problem. Anyhow, not a bad interview, but some footage of the festivals or WUSA matches would have been nice, and I kind of felt she was mumbling a bit. She was a bit hard to hear.