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ESPN Upgrades Its Spelling Bee Coverage


Hate to ruin your day, but Mike & Mike are out as hosts of the Scripps National Spelling Bee coverage on ESPN and ABC in May. Taking their place will be the perky Tom Bergeron — whose work on America's Funniest Home Videos was once again overlooked by the Nobel Committee — and a very special sideline reporter. More »

11:40 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By rickchand
11,390 views, 89 comments

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It's Clearly Time For Spelling Bee Instant Replay

Some Seahawks fans could maybe learn a thing or two from 14-year-old Sara Beckman. The Reno, Nev. eighth grader was dissed by the refs at the Washoe County Spelling Bee on Tuesday, ousted by a judge even though Beckman had correctly spelled the word in question, "discernible." Beckman's parents, dictionary in hand, protested the gaffe — but not until later. That wasn't enough for spelling bee officials, who said that, like in a football game, the protest had to come before the next play was run. To that, Beckman's parents replied, can you spell "lawsuit?" We pick up the story from there via the Reno Gazette-Journal: More »

11:35 AM on Fri Feb 10 2006
By rickchand
61 views, 9 comments

Latest by GoinYostal: Can I just point out how hilarious I think that the word that they were stuck on was discernible. Basically, whether the girls spelled discernible correctly was well not discernible. more »