Holly Rowe Pushes Reporter: ESPN Gets Interview With Michigan Coach After Sugar Bowl (VIDEO)

The 2012 Sugar Bowl between Michigan and Virginia Tech was broadcast on ESPN and featured Brad Nessler and Todd Blackledge up in the announcer's booth and Holly Rowe reporting from down on the sideline. Following the Wolverine's first BCS Bowl win since 2000, Rowe showed her colleagues that a network doesn't become known as the "Worldwide Leader" in anything without using some strong-arm tactics.

During the frenetic postgame scene, Rowe sought out Michigan head coach Brady Hoke immediately after the game for an on-field interview. And nobody was going to scoop Rowe -- even if they got there first.

In the video above, another journalist seems to have beaten Rowe to Hoke's side after the victorious first-year coach shook hands with Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer. So what did Rowe do? She displayed excellent boxing out skills, strong-armed the other reporter and won the first interview with Hoke.

So, now we know. Don't mess with Holly Rowe.

Comments

[imayes]

11:02 AM on 01/09/2012

In the hood we call that "Bogarting". Nicely done.

[cvbnm67]

03:13 AM on 01/09/2012

She must have learned that at WalMart on Dec 26th.

[TrunkMonkey 84]

10:01 AM on 01/07/2012

ESPN televised the game and it was agreed that they get the first shot at the interview. Although she was wrong to push her, the other reporter definitely instigated it by jumping the line. Now, I know there is no literal line to get in, but this was ESPN's deal. If it was on Fox or CBS, their folks get the first crack at post game interviews. I would imagine all press personnel were briefed on this prior to the game. At least the other reporters now know just how much of a BOSS Holly Rowe is.

[paddy523]

06:40 AM on 01/07/2012

CAT FIGHT!!!!!

[ccc399]

10:46 PM on 01/06/2012

what if a guy had done that!!! We'd be talking about all kinds of bull but this is considered cool/funny/appropriate...

[NealtheDeal]

09:54 PM on 01/06/2012

Had a male reporter pushed me aside, they would get a horse collar with my foot on their neck.

[Phil Gorden]

08:31 PM on 01/06/2012

If you notice She isn't the only one doing the shoving. Hoke is pushing her out of the shot as well. ESPN and Michigan, what a smarmy couple.

[tiredofpc]

06:26 PM on 01/06/2012

Obnoxious, boorish behavior isn't confined to one gender, is it?

[stloocardsfan]

05:14 PM on 01/06/2012

I wish I could get my boys' basketball team to box out that well.

[kiddub]

02:08 PM on 01/06/2012

Sign her up!

[boscobear]

11:02 AM on 01/06/2012

ESPN and Ms. Rove need to apologize to the other reporter for her totally unprofessional behavior. But on the bright side, it could have turned into a cat fitht!

[boscobear]

10:40 AM on 01/06/2012

She should play for Clemson next season.

[620five]

10:01 AM on 01/06/2012

So because it was live and ESPN had all sort of legal rights, then it makes the pushing acceptable?

[chiodo08]

09:36 AM on 01/06/2012

If you have EVER shopped during a x-mas rush you KNOW how deft women are at boxing out and standing their ground....they will hip check you into next week if you try to crease their space and not even look up when they do it....I don't even try

[NENJRI39]

12:07 AM on 01/05/2012

meow