Rachel Nichols from ESPN joins the show to talk about her career, including her path from studying at the top journalism school in the country to camping out in the trunk of Brett Favre’s SUV.

We talk about Nichols’ time covering The U and what it was like to be a 21-year old female beat writer interviewing the likes of Ray Lewis every day.

We discuss her time at the Washington Post and I make the claim that it’s not blogs that are killing newspapers but young writers like her, JA Adande and the like leaving newspapers for TV.  She has an interesting take on that claim.

We then talk all things ESPN, including E:60, the Stuart Scott interview with Barack Obama and what she would have done differently and what she thinks about the “Summer of Erin” and if she’s felt anything similar in her time at the WWL.