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ESPN RADIO TAKES YANKEE VS. SOX TO NEW LEVEL
N.Y.-Born Greenberg to Take All Sox Can Give in Cow-Milking Event
BRISTOL Conn., June 15, 2007 - ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike in the Morning co-host Mike Greenberg will pay up on a bet on Thursday, June 21 when the self-proclaimed metrosexual will doff his pressed khakis for overalls and milk a cow named Sox LIVE at 8 a.m. ET in the TV studio where the show is simulcast from for ESPN2.
Mike & Mike in the Morning co-hosts Greenberg and Mike Golic traditionally match their NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament brackets, with the loser's fate pre-determined by a listener/viewer vote. When Golic's "sheet of integrity" prevailed this April, Greenberg was put in an utterly precarious position of having to milk a cow.
"If milk is the only thing that comes out of that cow, I will consider it a huge win," Greenberg says. Frequent Mike & Mike guest and senior ESPN The Magazine writer Buster Olney, who grew up on a farm in Vermont and has been coaching Greenberg, will be there Thursday to help.
Sox, provided by regional dairy market Stew Leonard's, will arrive at ESPN's Bristol, Conn. headquarters at 6:30 a.m. Thursday from the Doumas at Eddy Farm in Newington, Conn. The eight-year old, 1,875-pound cow will be led through the network's Digital Center by her handlers to Studio E where appropriate cow-milking preparations will take place behind the Mike & Mike set, leading up to the 8 a.m. milking.
While this marks Greenberg's first foray into farm-like activities, Sox is a television veteran, having appeared on syndicated daytime talk-show "The Caroline Rhea Show," and movies "Mr. Deeds" with Adam Sandler, and the remake of the "Thomas Crown Affair."
WHERE/WHEN TO HEAR/WATCH GREENBERG MILKING A COW
Mike & Mike in the Morning can be seen/heard daily (catch the cow milking!) on:
ESPN Radio: 6-10 a.m. live
ESPN2 HD: 6-10 a.m. live
ESPN2: 6-10 a.m. live
ESPN HD: 2:30 p.m. Best Of
ESPN: 2:30 p.m. Best Of
ESPNRadio.com: streaming video live; photos following the milking
TAIL OF THE TAPE
| |
Sox |
Greeny |
| Height : |
5'5" |
5'11-1/2" |
| Weight: |
1,875 lbs |
175 lbs |
| Education: |
OXford |
Northwestern |
| Has friends in: |
livestock |
the stock market |
| Milk: |
precious bodily fluid |
lactose intolerant |
| Favorite team: |
Chicago Bulls |
N.Y. Jets |
| Favorite Publication: |
Farmer's Almanac |
GQ |
| Favorite Song: |
"Moooovin; on Up" |
"Yakety Yak" |
| Would like to catch: |
flies |
hopefully nothing at all |
| Favorite saying: |
"Moo" |
"Golic, you're a moron" |
| On hoofs/feet: |
MANicure |
PETicure |
| Exercises his/her: |
calves |
calves |
| Personal dislikes: |
tipping |
tipping |
| Farm Experience: |
entire life |
seen pictures |
| TV/Movie experience: |
2 movies; 1 TV show |
TV/Radio star |
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