Former Sun staff writer/fantasy football guru Dan Wiederer recently landed an interview with ESPN sideline reporter/Internet sensation Erin Andrews. Because anything Andrews does is newsworthy for sports blogs, the Fayetteville Observer Q&A is linked everywhere. It's a good get for Wiederer, who covers ACC hoops. As it turns out, even All-Americans lose their cool next to Andrews:
On elite college athletes feeling nervous around her: Hansbrough especially. I think I've always had a running joke with Tyler where I always have to tell him, 'You have to stop getting nervous when you're around me.' But I don't think it's just me. I feel like he's just so serious all the time. ... Before we go on the air for an interview, I'll elbow him pretty hard and I'll smile and try to give him that wide grin to try and loosen him up. 'C'mon now smile.' ... I saw Tyler at the ESPYs this year and I stopped to talk to him for a couple minutes and I was giving him a hard time about it. I just said, 'OK, so this year, if you come back, are you going to be more talkative, more friendly to me?' And he just stared at me and was like, 'What are you talking about?' I love kidding him about how he gets nervous.
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