ESPN Sex Scandal

The nation is pretty much immune to the rawkus sex-a-pades of the American celebrity class. First, there was Senator John Edwards; The Sex Scandal That Grieved A Nation (with the wife suffering from cancer and all). Then, there was South Carolina governor Mark Sanford; The Sex Scandal That Just Wouldn't End (in the media anyway). And finally, David Letterman's recent admission of an affair with his personal assistant; The Scandalous Sex Scandal.

And now CT's own quasi-celebrities have gotten into the mix.

Steve Phillips, 46, ESPN's playboy sports analyst and former general manager of the New York Mets has recently been outed by is latest mistress. Reportedly Phillips lover, a 22 year-old ESPN intern named Brooke Hundley, drove to his home where she attempted to hit Phillips' wife with her blue Prius hybrid--SIDE NOTE, its always best to threaten your lover's wife in an eco-friendly vehicle. After all that deranged behavior, it's nice to know that you're doing the planet a favor. Hundley also left Mrs. Phillips a note detailing some of their intimate encounters and telling the desperate housewife how unhappy Phillips is in his marriage.

What makes this story even more bizarre is that this is Phillips second reported extramarrital trist. The last mistress sued the sports tycoon for sexual harrassment in the late '90s. (collective sigh) As they say: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

But the real question is, what's really good with ESPN? Either its a hot bed of sin or the best damn sports news enterprise in the world.

I'm leaning toward the former. One former employee stated that there's frankly nothing else to do in Bristol, CT. "It [ESPN] might as well be on the moon," he said. I agree. Who decided to place the world's mecca for sports entertainment and news in the middle of nowhere?--hidden somewhere among the ever-changing Connecticut foliage?

And as the New England landscape is warming up, so is ESPN amid not so silent whispers about its raunchy reputation. The organization has long been labeled as a "post-graduate fraternity house" said Neil Best in a Newsday article.

Phillips, it seems, may have been hired as a sort of "intern rangler" before he got rangled himself. His reputation with the interns in the Mets organizaton must have preceeded him.