The 25 Hottest Sideline Reporters Right Now

These ladies make bland injury updates and hurried coach interviews worth your while.

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Sideline reporting has had a queen in recent years, and that queen was Erin Andrews. We'll just get that out of the way. Erin Andrews is not on this list because she retired from the sideline biz and is now the host of Fox's college football in-studio coverage. It's like ESPN's gameday but with a hotter anchor (sorry, Rece Davis and Chris Fowler).

But we digress. Erin was the queen, but not the only babe checking in with coaches as they scrambled off the field. Erin had competition in Michelle Beadle, Melanie Collins, Charissa Thompson, and others, all of whom have moved on to desk jobs or other fields entirely. 

Which leaves... who? Who's the "next Erin Andrews" we keep searching for? Is it a fresh youngster or an experienced (but overshadowed) veteran? Maybe the answer is in this list, and maybe it's not. After all, there may never be a next Erin Andrews just as there may never be a next Babe Ruth or Wilt Chamberlain. 

We'll see, but for today, here are the top 25 in the game right now, the pretenders to the throne. 

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Kristen Ledlow

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Kristen is a classic sideline girl, having pageant experience (third runner up, Miss Florida USA 2012) and the hustle to work any game that comes her way. She slings the mic for football and basketball games in the ACC and SEC.

Heidi Watney

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Major League Baseball recently snapped up this popular sports babe, and she is set to start hosting and reporting for that outfit in January. Previously, she was an on-field reporter covering the Red Sox for the New England Sports Network, and most recently, she covered the L.A. Galaxy for Time Warner Cable SportsNet in Los Angeles.

Wendi Nix

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Carolyn Manno

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Allison Williams

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Molly Sullivan

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Elizabeth Moreau

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Elizabeth is a welcome studio and sideline presence in Fox Sports South's coverage of SEC football, and can also be seen on the ACC Digital Network, which appears to be the same thing as TheACC.com. She is also qualified as a Lululemon Keyleader, a mysterious job title that means (we are pretty sure) she works in a yoga apparel store. And we know you're down with the yoga pants.

Alex Flanagan

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Alex Flanagan had a good season. Her season, after all, hinges on Notre Dame's, and the Irish are undefeated and on their way to the national championship game. In addition to being the on-field reporter for all ND home games, Alex jets all over the country for NFL gigs as well.

Kate Longworth

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Heather Cox

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We're not going to mince our words here: Heather Cox is no spring chicken. She's been a sideline reporter since 1995, which makes her old enough to be the mother of some of the young things on this list. (She is a mother, by the way, but her kids are not on this list.)
But you know what? It's 2012, and moms are hot. Heather Cox has been doing what she does for so damn long because she's damn good at it. She gets the big game in college football, Saturday nights on ESPN/ABC with Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit, and you know they wouldn't have it either way (well, not since Erin Andrews moved on). Sometimes you want an experienced mama redhead down in the trenches doing your dirty work.
The young, young things? Keep 'em up in the booth. For their own safety.

Tracy Wolfson

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Few would dispute that the SEC has been the power conference of college football for the last decade, which makes the Saturday night match-ups broadcast by CBS, and announced by Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson, very often the marquee game of the week. And on the sideline, there can be only one: Tracy Wolfson, CBS' lead college football reporter for seven years running.

Rebecca Haarlow

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Laura McKeeman

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Lauren Gardner

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Lauren is a sideline reporter for college football, as well as the UFL and the NLL. That's a good break for the UFL (United Football League) and the NLL (National Lacrosse League), and they need all the breaks they can get. On MTV, she does the LFL—the Lingerie Football League—which is just a no-brainer.

Julie Alexandria

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Julie is the sideline reporter who combines the allure of sports knowledge with a geek appeal that some of these homecoming queens will simply never have. The Queens native is an XBox brand ambassador and can reel off a list of her favorite professional gamers. 

Katelynn Johnson

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Katelynn rose to prominence as that girl on the Oregon Ducks' cheerleading squad, the one who all the sports bloggers went wild over (and that's saying something, as the Ducks cheerleaders are an elite crew). With that kind of popularity, a move into sideline reporting was logical; she started last year in the L.A. market, but fans are rooting for her to go national.

Jaime Maggio

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Somebody get this extremely hard-working and super-attractive sports babe her own show. At this pace, she's bound to run out of networks. 

Britt McHenry

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Bifurcated Britt can be seen anchoring the local news for Washington D.C.'s ABC affiliate on weekends, and doing post-game reporting from Redskins games at home and away. Those are some busy weekends. What does she do Monday through Thursday? We don't know, and we don't care to ask. Let the girl have some privacy.

Niki Noto

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Jenn Brown

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Samantha Steele

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Kristina Akra

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Ines Sainz

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Michelle Beisner

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Alex Curry

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