I am so not happy about Fox giving her this hosting gig. Then again, I was always on Team Evans when the Janet Evans and Summer Sanders feud was happening. The sports media never portrayed Matt Biondi and Tom Yaeger(don't remember his last name that well) feuding with each other.
Kirk:
Its hard for me to believe that people don't know who Summer Sanders is? Now maybe they don't remember that she was a swimmer, but if they watch any sort of Cable Sports there going to know who Summer is. After the 1992 Olympics a lot of press predicted that Summer would be a media darling in the future and it looks like that has happened judging from the exposure recently in TV.
Summer used to do TV for swim meets back in the 1990's and was one of the color commentators for the 1996 Olympics with Rowdy Gaines and Dan Hicks. From there she went on to host programs with many different networks with different types of programs. She even has a book that was published about her swimming and life experiences about 5 years ago.
Programs like Nickelodeon "Figure It Out", ESPN "NBA Inside Stuff", ESPN "The Sport Lists" and the new program on ESPN called "Beg Borrow and Deal". I can't think of one women athlete that has hosted this many different programs in the last 10 years. Summer along with Dona de Verona have become the most successful USA women swimmers to ever host sports TV.
It does not matter if you like it or not, the TV world obviously likes the job that Summer has been doing, so I think you are going to see a lot of Summer in the future doing different gigs with sports. This FOX show is just another in the long list of shows for Summer Sanders.
Kirk:
Its hard for me to believe that people don't know who Summer Sanders is? Now maybe they don't remember that she was a swimmer, but if they watch any sort of Cable Sports there going to know who Summer is. After the 1992 Olympics a lot of press predicted that Summer would be a media darling in the future and it looks like that has happened judging from the exposure recently in TV.
Summer used to do TV for swim meets back in the 1990's and was one of the color commentators for the 1996 Olympics with Rowdy Gaines and Dan Hicks. From there she went on to host programs with many different networks with different types of programs. She even has a book that was published about her swimming and life experiences about 5 years ago.
Programs like Nickelodeon "Figure It Out", ESPN "NBA Inside Stuff", ESPN "The Sport Lists" and the new program on ESPN called "Beg Borrow and Deal". I can't think of one women athlete that has hosted this many different programs in the last 10 years. Summer along with Dona de Verona have become the most successful USA women swimmers to ever host sports TV.
It does not matter if you like it or not, the TV world obviously likes the job that Summer has been doing, so I think you are going to see a lot of Summer in the future doing different gigs with sports. This FOX show is just another in the long list of shows for Summer Sanders.
