On game day, nothing goes better with an ice-cold case of Heineken than a hotter-than-sin, modern-day goddess, slinging around game terms quicker than you can say, “I love this game.” Enjoy, while we bring you the softer and, much sexier, side of sports broadcasting.
#1: One look at her and it’s not hard to see why Bostonians are as severely smitten by reporter Hazel Mae as they are for their home team (the Red Sox) whom she covers as lead anchor at NESN’s Sport’s Desk. But before Hazel graced Boston with her presence, she was getting her first taste of sportscasting as a personality on York University’s campus radio in Toronto. Her first national gig began with her anchoring the morning sports-news show on Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto, Canada’s all-sports, all-day channel. Along with her role as an anchor at Sportsnetnews, Hazel made weekly appearances on Toronto’s Jzone and dropped by regularly on Sportsnet’s radio affiliates. She can be seen, nightly, covering Red Sox and Bruins games on Sports Desk and, weekly, on The Buzz and Granite City Electric Red Sox Rewind, all on NESN.
#2: Image
It was hard work, knowledge of the game, and an irresistible charisma in front of the lens that eventually transformed Ms. Jody Vance’s window of local opportunity at CHRX to a foot in the door of national television as a sports anchor for Sportsnet.
You only need to watch the woman do what she was born to do to understand why it’s more than her pretty face that discerning fans find captivating. Though, at first, the viewer may only comprehend the milky quality of her skin or the movement of her lips as she covers the Toronto Maple Leafs, on Leafs TV in Ontario, he might assume that these qualities are all she has to offer. But her lucid understanding of the game, her credibility, and a passion for what she does never fail to shine through, earning the attention and respect at least equal to that of her male coworkers–and she’s so much easier to look at!
#3: When other girls in the neighborhood were playing in their mothers’ old makeup kits, Leeann Tweeden was wiping dust from the racetrack out of her angel eyes. Even when she was too young to race go-karts with her father and older brother, the junior NASCAR fan says she was “the best pit girl a brother could have!”
Leeann’s mother enrolled her in gymnastics, dance lessons, and local beauty pageants. Winning the Venus International Model Search in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a year before making it to Los Angeles put the heartbreaker at “pole position” in the race to stardom.
Then she landed Frederick’s of Hollywood as a major client. It wasn’t long before she was reporting from Supercross events and on stations such as ESPN 2, FOX Sports Net, VH1, E!, and her current spot on The Best Damn Sports Show Period with FOX.
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