THE ZAPPER
John O'Keefe
March 19, 2001
While doing play-by-play of the Big East women's tournament final pitting Connecticut and Notre Dame, ESPN's Robin Roberts, who starred as a forward at Southeastern Louisiana in the 1980s, was stunned into silence for a full minute after watching Huskies senior guard-forward Shea Ralph tear her ACL. "I forgot we were still on the air," says Roberts. "Doris [analyst Doris Burke] had to nudge me and say, 'You haven't spoken for a while. Are you O.K.?' " Can you imagine that ever happening to Dick Vitale?
While doing play-by-play of the Big East women's tournament final pitting Connecticut and Notre Dame, ESPN's Robin Roberts, who starred as a forward at Southeastern Louisiana in the 1980s, was stunned into silence for a full minute after watching Huskies senior guard-forward Shea Ralph tear her ACL. "I forgot we were still on the air," says Roberts. "Doris [analyst Doris Burke] had to nudge me and say, 'You haven't spoken for a while. Are you O.K.?' " Can you imagine that ever happening to Dick Vitale?