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(Talented ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons will be at Borders in Mission Valley at 6 tonight to sign copies of his book,) Now I Can Die in Peace. ... Think of it as the director`s cut of a DVD, with the footnotes serving as the commentary.

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

(Oregon State-Louisville: I love (ESPN analyst) Chris Spielman . After Louisville calls a pass play that goes for a touchdown (making the score 56-13), he chides Oregon State for playing man coverage.) I know this is an unpopular opinion, ... but it`s not Louisville`s job to stop themselves.

Frankie called my room and told me to turn on ESPN, ... If all you saw was that one clip they had and nothing else, I guess it looked like a fight. That`s OK. I don`t care what they say.

You can`t get off the script, or it`s going to throw the kickoff time. That`s the main thing, to keep ESPN`s 11:02 (a.m. EST) kickoff time on schedule.

(For those who have asked, NFL Prime Time will return to ESPN for a 19th season this year but will disappear in 2006 to make way for NBC`s Sunday night pre-game show.) That (show) will be on our tombstones, ... I`m bummed (that this is the last season). Wouldn`t you be?

I`m thrilled, ... I`ve had about a hundred people come up and ask me about ESPN, so I really feel like I`m representing (Vermont).

In fact I think that 16 women in the same house, competing in the ring would make a great show. Their ` back stories ` are so much more diverse than the men. You have college graduates, truck drivers, straight women, gay women and the drive that got each of those women into the gym in the first place adds up to some very compelling stories. Do I think it will happen? It`s a long shot. Going to ESPN gives the show much more of a niche appeal, the viewers on that network are mainly male sports fans and it might not be the best programming environment for a female ` Contender `, and that`s a shame because it`s a great concept.

I`m fortunate. The NFL Network is on Channel 25, ESPN is Channel 26 and ESPN2 is Channel 27, ... I get the trifecta right there.

I didn`t view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

ESPN has said that they fired me without having been told to do so by Disney, and I actually believe that. I think they did it on their own.

I talk to them here and there and see on them ESPN, check out their stats and stuff,

Gosh, I haven`t seen that many fumbles by a Jets` quarterback since Joe Namath tried to kiss Suzy Kolber on an ESPN Sunday night game a couple years ago, ... The Chiefs played defense about as well as Suzy did —� Joe didn`t get to first base, and neither did we. But we`ve got Chad on a strenuous hand-strengthening regimen: he`s squeezing Charmin toilet paper 500 times a day.