I was once a mascot. It was my senior year at Florida, I was on the varsity cheerleading team and there was a Saturday afternoon women’s basketball game. The JV team cheered at women’s basketball, so I had the day off. Then I got a call from our coach. Alberta was sick. At Florida, there…

The last time I saw IndyCar driver Scott Dixon, I was at the 2009 Long Beach Grand Prix reporting THIS story on the long-held belief that having children slows down drivers. He and his wife Emma were about to have their first daughter, he was coming off the best year of his life and his…

Today officially marks 100 days until Opening Ceremonies at the Sochi Olympics. And to celebrate, the USOC held a sort of mixer with 50 athletes, members of the media, sponsors and fans in Times Square all day today. It opened with a press conference – and a protest by a local human rights group –…

This, my golfing friends, is what they call taking a Mulligan. [Where does that term come from, anyway? THIS is what the USGA Museum has to say about it.] This weekend was spent unpacking, re-packing, writing and catching up with friends in the little time in between. Needless to say: I wrote zero blogs. Today,…

Five things that made me smile today … Watching this Coke commercial a few times while writing my piece on the women of Pittsburgh. Watching “Enough Said”, the final film James Gandolfini made before his death. It’s such a sweet, funny film. Worth the 13 bucks. Reading this essay by Kurt Vonnegut from Man Without a Country,…

Back in LA! I’m sitting at home writing this entry while watching the show I’ve been working on for the past month with the X Games producers, the first hourlong show I’ve had the pleasure of being a part of (and my first hosting gig), The World of X Games ski preview show. I rarely…

Yesterday, I was in Pittsburgh. Today, I’m in Park City. Not a bad city swap, if you ask me. I’m here filming an interview with boardercross racer Lindsey Jacobellis for our upcoming World of X snowboard show, which airs next month. I think it will be the best piece in the one-hour show. Lindsey is…

At the Pens game Monday night, two teenage girls were seated two rows in front of my mom and me. They were dressed in full Pens regalia: T-shirts, hats, Pens logos on their purses. For all intents and purposes, they looked like fans. Every once in a while, they even looked up from their phones…

You know those times when you learn about something for the first time — a word you’ve never seen in print and have to look up or a product a friend introduces you to that’s been on the market for months — and suddenly you begin to see it everywhere. It’s as if your awareness…

Yesterday at the mall, we came upon a prognosticating piece of Steelers memorabilia, a Brett Keisel Fortune Teller machine. He told us we had a fun Sunday in store, as well as a Steelers win. He was right. What a fun, memorable day. And I had such a great time talking to women at the…