Friday, February 22, 2013

SportsCenter's Linda Cohn to Speak at OSU

By Josh Albarran


ESPN's SportsCenter anchor Linda Cohn will probably be speaking at Oklahoma State University on March 4th for the Women's Sports Media Club.

Cohn was originally to scheduled to speak for next week, but it was postponed because of her recent short absents at the Worldwide Leader and speaking of that, she hasn't appeared on ESPN since she co-anchored the 11 p.m. ET edition of SportsCenter on the night after the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl XLVII victory. This might be the third time since late August of 2012 that Cohn would be homesick from her TV and radio work.

An OSU spokeswoman said in their press release (http://www.ocolly.com/news/osu/article_93103362-7c9d-11e2-b794-001a4bcf6878.html) that “I contacted her agent, Bob Phillip, and he and I have been corresponding,” Thomas said. “She originally planned on coming Feb. 28 and something came up so we had to kind of re-hash everything to make it work.”

It will be known that the homesick Cohn would return to host SportsCenter when she's 100% ready to break the ice, now entering her 21st year at Bristol, Connecticut and she's an 53-year old sportscaster who is an die-hard fan of the New York Rangers, Giants and Mets. Now I know I'll followed Linda at Twitter (http://twitter.com/lindacohn) and I read her book Cohn-Head: A No-Holds Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boy's Club (order it at LindaCohn.net), but as Cohn always said when she started SportsCenter, why wait?!!

UPDATE (03/05/13): Cohn returned to ESPN last Friday morning after 25 days filling-in for Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio's The Herd as well as anchoring SportsCenter during the weekend and she will be at Oklahoma State this Thursday afternoon to speak to their students scheduled for 2:30pm local time (3:30pm ET).

Josh Albarran reporting for TV SportsNews

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