When I started at MTV News eight years ago, I often felt uncomfortable. After all, everyone else was so smart and creative. I, on the other hand, was the same age as some of our interns. One of those interns way-back-when was a Notre Dame student named Kate Sobrero.
Kate, we sooned learned, was more than just your average youngster who wanted to work at MTV News one day. It turned out she'd spent that previous summer in Sydney, Australia, with the rest of the U.S. women's national soccer team ... winning a silver medal.
To which we all replied, "Huh?"
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By Andrew Millard
Here's something you probably didn't know about MTV Newsers: A lot of us are hard-core soccer fans (sorry, Tim Kash — I meant to say "football"!). And every day for the past two weeks, most of our Newsroom TVs have been locked on the UEFA European Football Championships, where between 2:30 and 5 p.m. you'll hear loud, intermittent "UGH!!"s, "ARRGGGHH!!"s and, of course, "GOOOOAAAAAALLLL!!"s from our most faithful footie followers.
Of course, if you happen to be in Austria or Switzerland right now you're also bound to hear this: "DUUUUH, DUH-DUH DUH-DUH-DUUUUUUUUUH!"
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