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CYBERSPORTS ARRINGTON WON'T AIR IT OUT DESPITE BEING `SEXIEST'.


Byline: - Tom Hoffarth

Although her victory in the ``Sexiest Sportscaster in America'' cyberpoll conducted on Playboy.com included an invitation to pose (presumably pre·sum·a·ble  
adj.
That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster.
 without clothing) on the site, CBS' Jill Arrington Jill Arrington (born Tiffany Arrington on July 27, 1972 in Conyers, Georgia) was a college football sideline reporter for ESPN during the 2004 season. She left ESPN after that season for personal reasons.  has apparently declined the offer.

Apparently, because according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the site, she ``wasn't immediately available to explain the rebuff.''

When the polls closed Friday, Arrington had 26 percent of the more than 220,000 votes, finishing slightly ahead of ABC's Melissa Stark Melissa Stark (born November 11, 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland), was an American television personality with NBC who used to anchor with MSNBC. She joined in 2005. Prior to joining NBC, she was best known for her three-year stint as a sideline reporter for  (23 percent). NBC's Hannah Storm Hannah Storm (born Hannah Storen on June 13, 1962) is an American television news journalist and a current co-host of CBS' The Early Show. Early life and career , seven months pregnant, attracted 14 percent.

CBS' Bonnie Bernstein (10 percent), Fox's Jillian Berberie (9 percent), CNN's Inga Hammond, Fox's Lisa Guerrero and NBC's Summer Sanders (each with 5 percent), Fox's Pam Oliver (2 percent) and Fox Sports Net's Angie Ariati (1 percent) completed the 10-woman ballot.

Playboy.com's wrapup story also took some pleasure in that its poll incited several rips from Sports Illustrated, ``the venerable publication whose swimsuit issue comes out next month.''

--ESPN's Winter X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports.  next month in Vermont will include a medal competition in - get this - video snowboarding on Play Station 2.

Competition in 10 major cities will determine 10 finalists who'll be flown to the games in Mt. Snow to compete in the finals. The Los Angeles regional competition, open to the first 200 who register online at www.circuitcity.com, takes place Saturday at the Circuit City on Gayley Avenue in Westwood Village from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jan 15, 2001
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