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After conducting a Q&A session with University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy for ESPN Game Day this morning, Jenn Brown became a new sports darling.

Texas went on to win the Red River shootout with Oklahoma, 16-13, and McCoy is good at football, sure, but it was the ESPN reporter who drew more raves.

Jenn is not new to the business, having worked as a reporter and anchor for Inside the NFL and ESPNU. Nor is she a stranger to being drop dead gorgeous.

Brown, a former bikini model and gymnast, attended the University of Florida, much like another ESPN reporter and fan favorite, the lovely Erin Andrews.

A few more big-game appearances like today and Jenn Brown (right) may be the heiress apparent to Erin (left) as dream girl of sports fans everywhere.

We just hope she doesn't end up on a sketchy hotel peephole video, too.

So guys, who'd you rather ... um, you know? Vote in the poll below ...

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He started the day behind bars after being arrested, but Erin Andrews' alleged hotel peephole stalker, Michael David Barrett, was released on bail yesterday.

As he left the facility, we got our first glimpse of the man who accused of clandestinely filming Erin Andrews nude in several Nashville hotel rooms.

Putting a face to the name makes Michael Barrett even more creepy.

He's under house arrest and electronic monitoring as he awaits trial October 23. He can only leave to go to work or the doctor, and can't even go online.

That will likely thwart his uploading of Erin Andrews torrents. Poor.

Below is a photo of him. Fortunately, it was taken in the light of day by a news photographer who didn't have to shoot it secretly through a peephole ...

Nice going, Michael David Barrett, you perv.

Michael David Barrett, the perv arrested for videotaping Erin Andrews nude in several hotels earlier this year, is now out on bail - but on a very tight leash.

He forked over $4,500 in bail money, but don't expect him to skip down. A federal judge in Chicago granted his release with the following list of stipulations:

• Barrett have to wear an electronic monitoring device.
• He can go to work and doctor's appointments only.
• A curfew beginning at 9 p.m. and ending at 6 a.m.
• No Internet for two weeks (probably for the best).

Michael David Barrett was also ordered to turn in his passport by tomorrow morning, and he's not allowed to leave Northern Illinois without permission.

The judge said he was releasing Barrett because that suspect doesn't have a criminal record and because his family lives in the area. He is not a flight risk.

He faces interstate stalking charges in Los Angeles October 23 for allegedly taking clandestine videos of the ESPN reporter nude and posting them online.

Plenty of guys want to see Erin Andrews naked, which is understandable. Look at her. Taping her without her consent just makes you a perv and a criminal, though.

A Chicago-area man, Michael David Barrett, was arrested last night at that city's O'Hare airport for secretly taping ESPN reporter Erin Andrews nude.

He is due to appear in federal court Saturday morning. The charges were filed against Michael David Barrett in L.A., where she first learned of the tape.

Barrett faces federal charges of interstate stalking for taking the videos, then trying to sell them to celebrity gossip sites and posting the videos online.

Several TV networks and newspapers aired brief clips or printed screen grabs from the scandalous, virus-laden Erin Andrews peephole video in July.

Andrews thanked FBI agents and prosecutors for their work on the arrest and said she hoped that the case will help others who have been victimized.

"For my part, I will make every effort to strengthen laws on a state and federal level to better protect victims of criminal stalking," she said in a statement.

Andrews' attorney, Marshall Grossman, said last night that Erin is "probably sleeping more soundly tonight than she has since these videos surfaced."

Grossman said the videos appeared to have been taped by a serial stalker who followed Erin from city to city: "He wasn't an accidental tourist," he said.

FBI agents report that seven of the eight videos posted online were taken through a modified peephole while the 31-year-old Andrews was alone and naked.

They believe Michael David Barrett called many Nashville, Tenn., hotels to find out where Andrews was staying and requested a hotel room next to hers.

Agents said Barrett, 48, also made reservations at a Milwaukee hotel she visited in July 2008. They found her door's peephole rigged, but he didn't check in and the furniture in the room did not match furniture seen on the eighth video.

Barrett first tried to sell the tape to celebrity gossip website TMZ, but an employee there informed Erin Andrews' attorneys, according to the complaint.

FBI agents matched information in the e-mail to Barrett, and also examined telephone records and credit card charges from Barrett's Nashville hotel stay.

Agents also concluded that the videos of Erin Andrews naked, which are far from high quality, were probably all recorded using a cell phone camera.

Barrett sought to place Andrews under surveillance to harass and intimidate her, and to cause substantial emotional distress, the federal complaint said.

He faces up to five years in federal prison if convicted.

In an emotional interview with Oprah Winfrey, Erin Andrews described the leaked hotel video of her nude as a nightmare she felt would end her professionally.

Naked tapes aren't really career killers nowadays - on the contrary, right, Kim Kardashian? Then again, the stars of such tapes often don't have careers.

Erin does. So when creepy footage of Erin Andrews nude in a hotel - shot without her knowledge - leaked online, she called her parents and screamed.

"I'm done, my career is over!" she wailed uncontrollably.

She says she's "paranoid" and constantly feels like she's being filmed since the peeping Tom - who has still not been caught - exploited her in the tape.

Erin also told the Big O that her visit to Chicago, where the popular show is taped, marked the first time since the incident she'd been alone in a hotel.

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The "nightmare" behind her, Erin Andrews is ready to play ball.

Or talk about people playing football in college, at least.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Andrews said that she's ready to put the hotel peephole video scandal behind her and head back to work for ESPN.

Thursday's football game between the University of South Carolina and North Carolina State will be her first sideline-reporting gig since the incident.

No one knows when it happened or who did it, but some miscreant secretly shot video of Erin Andrews naked in a hotel room and posted it online. Perv.

"It's really going to help me heal my wounds," Andrews told Winfrey, whose interview with "America's Sexiest Sportscaster," 31, will air September 24.

Erin Andrews has kept a very low profile since the tape's leak.

After the Erin Andrews nude footage popped up, the Florida graduate had to shoot down rumors that she leaked nude footage of herself for the publicity.

That, for her, was the toughest part, as she was pretty broken up over the naked tape and has promised to take legal action against the perpetrator(s).

Erin says she was just as shocked as anybody to see that grainy hotel video.

"I opened up the computer [and] could feel my heart pounding," she said.

Erin says this will be her "first and last" interview on the online tape.

"People have a story they have to cover," the sportscaster, who called 911 at one point due to photographers camped outside her Atlanta home. "But I just felt like I was continuing to be victimized. I did nothing wrong here."

Sports fans love Erin Andrews.

They know and adore everything about her - how she was on the dance squad at the University of Florida, how she started out covering the NHL for a local TV channel in Tampa, how drunk college kids propose to her as she roams the sidelines.

One “fan” who went too far: the freaking perv who shot that peephole video of Erin Andrews nude in a hotel. But we're not talking about that now!

In the new issue of GQ, Erin gets down and dirty (literally!) in a football locker room and tells us a few things about herself that we didn't know ...

• She’s ready to bolt Atlanta, where she lives, for New York City.
• She’d like to graduate someday to the NFL: “No doubt. But right now, the college game, I ’m enamored with it. I grew up in the South. It’s a religion.”
• She plans to get married ... eventually: “I’ve always looked out for my career first. That’s not to say I don’t want to have kids and get married. But the guys I’ve dated are happy I’m not calling 24-7. They’ve got their own stuff going on.”

There's your playbook, guys. Have your own thing going on, and whatever you do, don't stick a camera in the peep hole of her hotel room.

Click to enlarge more Erin Andrews pictures from GQ ...

Reporters live in front of the cameras - on their own terms.

But the Erin Andrews 911 call to report two photographers parked outside her house in suburban Atlanta shows just how uncomfortable her situation is now.

Andrews describes herself as "the girl that was videotaped in a hotel naked" and expressed frustration about being treated like "f*%king Britney Spears."

Sounding totally in control and absolutely helpless at the same time, the hotel video target is exceedingly polite, yet swearing like a sailor a minute later.

Seconds before almost breaking into tears, Erin playfully tells her mom that she's "totally being obvious" as they're trying to get a license plate number.

These contradictions are fitting, in a way, for a story that is full of them.

So many people want to make the scandal a black and white issue: Andrews is a victim, she brought it on herself, blame bloggers, blame the Internet, etc.

There are no simple answers, however. Just because Erin Andrews cultivated her sex appeal to make her the most popular sideline reporter in America doesn't mean she somehow deserved to be the subject of a nude hotel peephole video.

But even as she is calling the police about paparazzi stationed outside of her house, it was just weeks ago that Andrews was openly campaigning for a spot on Dancing With the Stars, a move that invited attention on a celebrity level.

There's no grand lesson to be learned here, just another sad, cautionary tale about the perils of fame. Oddly enough, Britney Spears can probably relate.

Listen to Erin's 911 call below ...

When ESPN reporter Erin Andrews spotted "suspicious people" lurking around her Georgia home last week, she called 911 on them and did not hold back.

Describing to the dispatcher just how she feels about her recent video scandal, her call for assistance soon turned into a frustrated, foul-mouthed rant.

The hotel peep hole video of Erin Andrews naked, which she did not know was being filmed, has catapulted the beautiful reporter into the news in a manner she never envisioned, nor asked for. And she's rightfully upset about it.

In the call, before she even says her name, a pissed-off Erin says she has paparazzi outside her house, calling them "jerks," "a$$holes" and pointing out that "I've been in the news recently about being in a hotel naked."

The dispatcher's response? "Oh ... I'm so sorry."

Erin Andrews has not had the best of weeks.

Asked to read off the license plate number of photographers' car, Erin, who was with her mom, said: "Let me see if I can read it. I can not believe these guys are knocking on my door. Such a$$holes! ... Mom, you're totally being obvious."

Increasingly frustrated about the nude hotel video, Erin goes on to say, "I did nothing wrong and I'm being treated like f***ing Britney Spears and it sucks."

It turns out that the dudes were just news reporters hoping to secure an interview with Andrews, and were allowed by police to leave without being cited.

Click here to listen to the 911 call ...

It is deservedly called the worldwide leader in sports, but perhaps the #1 criticism of ESPN over the years has been its unabashed and frequent self-promotion.

Now, a pair of stories over the past week and ESPN's involvement in each have made the network the story - deservedly or not - and left it under fire.

First, a hotel peephole video surfaced of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who was filmed in the nude without her consent. Andrews' representatives and ESPN acknowledged the grainy video was her and that they would seek civil and criminal action.

Erin Andrews was the victim of an abhorrent act, one no fault of ESPN's.

However, the network's reaction - particularly its banning of the New York Post after the paper printed Erin Andrews nude pics - was questionable, some feel.

The Post's gossip page ran an item Thursday blaming ESPN for its letter to the website hosting the hotel peephole video that ultimately outed Erin Andrews.

One columnist even wrote, "The fact is one person committed the crime, but all of us, including ESPN, contributed to this revealing peep at our culture."

First, there was the Erin Andrews tape. Then the Ben Roethlisberger case.

When a Nevada woman named Andrea McNulty filed a civil suit accusing the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback of sexually assaulting her in the hotel where she worked last summer, ESPN did not report it on TV or on its website.

Its reasoning: "A policy of not running stories based on civil suits without a criminal investigation or without conducting its own reporting."

ESPN claimed to be taking the high road by not reporting the lawsuit, but as it pertained to Ben Roethlisberger, many wondered if ESPN was refusing to only to stay in good standing with one of the country's most high-profile athletes.

Finally, three days after the story broke, ESPN reported it, saying it was just waiting for either Roethlisberger or law enforcement to make a statement.

Any news organization has the right to set standards by which it will report a story, of course. But the New York Times reported it, and given that it involved a sports figure, it's a little odd that the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" did not.

If nothing else, ESPN's impartiality and role in creating more news than it reports is a subject being hotly debated in journalism circles.