Michele Tafoya joins the show to talk about her career patrolling the sidelines of some of America’s biggest sporting events.

We talk about her role with Monday Night Football and how much it actually changed from last season. We also dissect the different responsibilities a sideline reporter can have, from interviewer to news reporter to game-play analyst and how the job has changed over the last decade.

I ask Michele if she’s ever gotten blown off by a coach at halftime and how she’s dealt with that. And we talk about the  overwhelming attention the younger sideline reporters get from men ogling them in the stands and the bevy of blog sites dedicated to their every moves.

I ask her if Erin Andrews (and the like) have become this generation’s Anna Kournakova. We talk about how the perception of women in sports has change from when she started.

We also talk about celebrity, and how being a national television personality opens more doors with coaches and players than the lowly beat writers can open.

With John Lynch starting at Fox this week, we talk about athletes leaving the field and going into the booth...who would be the best at it? She brings up some interesting names.

We also discuss her decision to stop covering the NBA this year to spend more time with her family. Reports questioned if ‘not renewing her contract’ was code for ‘her contract was not renewed’ so we talk about that, and get the real scoop on why she didn’t go back to the NBA this year.

Finally, we talk a little about Barack Obama becoming the President and how our kids may laugh at us 30 years from now that it’s such a big deal and wonder why it took so long for a minority to become POTUS. We equate that to women in sports...how far have we come exactly?

Oh yeah, we also rip on Minnesota building an open-air baseball stadium and take some shots at Kornheiser.