Jamie Mottram's Sports Blog - www.misterirrelevant.com

As promised, here's the 17-minute Sports Guy interview conducted on my iPod microphone plug-in here at the media center in Miami, so it sounds really good. Here's how it went down:

Step 1: Spotted Simmons being interviewed from a distance.

Step 2: Scribbled questions while waiting for him to finish.

Step 3: Ambushed him. "Hi, I'm Jamie Mottram and I swear I'm not stalking you but ... "

Step 4: Once done explaining myself, discussed Colts fans, Super Bowl locations,  the Real World, blogs, leaving ESPN, calling college hoops games, being on Colbert Report and the Peyton Manning Face.

Step 5: Handed him my card in the hopes he'll hold onto it. Write me, Bill!

Give it a listen, but, in case you don't care about two pasties spitting into a mike, here are the highlights ...

-- He calls the current season of Real World (Denver) the best ever. Blasphemer.

-- Doesn't really read blogs, although he does admire True Hoop (more on this in coming days) and is "a little disappointed that [sports blogs] aren't expanding what they're doing."

-- With regard to being Dan Shanoff's hottest free agent of 2007, "There's a good chance I'll be back [at ESPN]."

-- And he's not trying to become a college hoops color commentator. He just called two ESPNU games recently to fuel an upcoming column.

Update: Simmons mentions this in his latest column.

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• #2 Comment from monponsett 
  1/31/07 8:37 AM | Permalink

  If Simmons doesn't read sports blogs, I'm interested in how he came up with the idea for calling the NBA All Star Game the "black Super Bowl" a year to the day that Miss Erin read my joke on your very show calling the game "the Hip-Hop Oscars" or something.
  
  
• #1 Comment from bandjlemonds 
  1/30/07 9:36 PM | Permalink

  toyatas entry into nascar/ is like a hippy trying to enter the green beret/ it just aint going to work./