Some Lesley Visser news

she's a sweetheart in every way. a real pro and always a good friend.

 

yeah, she's really good, right

 

I don't, as a rule, care for sideline reporters, but she always brought (brings?) something more than the usual crap you get from the airheads. The best compliment you can give her: She's a reporter first, sideline reporter second.

 

True.
This, too: She's a rookie, first meeting with Dan Jenkins, US Open tennis. Very Lesley-enthusiastic, she says, "Dan Jenkins, Dannnn Jenkins, I've always wanted to be just like you." To which Dan draws on a cigarette and says, "What, hung over?" Later, much later, she's a character in Dan's "You Gotta Play Hurt."

 

"You Gotta Play Hurt". Hands down the funniest book I've ever read. I've read it three times, and it's just as good each time. Dan Jenkins is a national treasure. And he knows it.

 

I preface this with the knowledge that Lesley is a true journalist in every sense of the word.

Around 1986, a friend and I were at the old Capital Centre for a Georgetown game. I turn a corner in the concourse and suddenly am struck dumb by the sight of her. Lesley Visser was, at that particular point in time, one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen in my life. I mean, drop-dead unbelievable gorgeous.

I swear, people ... better than the O woman.

 

OK, Moddy, gotta share the Galloway story.

 

She was a damn fine feature writer on the Glove before she turned TV. I really looked forward to reading her stuff. They gave her a lot of space to sprawl a story/

 

The money shot, as I have heard it, was a cunnilingus reference to her face in discussing the difference between her and the males sitting at the table.

I'm sure I fucked that up.

 

She was born 9/11/53.