MICHELLE BEADLE

I'm not good at fake.

My favorite part of being a sportscaster is the access afforded us to some of the greatest moments in sports. Mine came when I was on the sidelines at the Rose Bowl when Vince Young carried the Longhorns to a fantastic win over Colin's USC Trojans.

When I talk about the Spurs in different states, people don't get it. But it's a cool team to root for. I've been a fan since I was young.

My big thing is I like to be in a spot where I can have an opinion every single day, and I'm hoping to keep that going because, you know, it's not normal yet for women in this business to have an opinion, and I was very grateful that I got to do that.

I love clothes, but when it comes down to actually getting dressed, I usually just wear ZARA sweatshirts, jeans and the same pair of boots I've had for seven years, every single day of my life.

My favorite sport to watch is basketball. To play? golf, but I wish I was much better.

Returning to 'SportsNation' is my destiny.

It's just much easier to wake up and be you and go to bed and do it over again.

I feel genuinely fortunate to work with so many friends and talented people at ESPN, who make every day such fun.

I believe that the sport of football has set itself up to be in a position where it shows itself in the bigger picture to not really care about women - they don't really care about people of color, but we won't get into that for NFL either - but as a woman I feel like a person who has been marginalized.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

It's Charles Barkley. He's a personality. I don't count him as a journalist.

I like certain things, I don't like others, and I like what NBC has to offer. I can do sports and I can do entertainment, and whatever they offer I'm going to try at least once to figure out what I love and what I don't.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I know how to do the other stuff - the 'Access' stuff and go be goofy and all that. That I can do. For me to sit on a desk, when I know on the other network is Bob Costas and Dan Patrick is a change.

The only thing better than working for Connor Schell and Kevin Wildes is being able to spend each day with all of the incredibly talented people at 'NBA Countdown' and 'SportsNation.' It's the best job in sports.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I live a much more interesting life in other people's minds.

I am thrilled to join the NBCUniversal family and to have the opportunity to work alongside many of the most talented and accomplished individuals in the business.

Women need to make sure they know what they're talking about. You can't just plant yourself in front of a camera and be pretty because that's just not good enough. It's just not a respectable way about building one's career - in sports or anywhere on TV.

I'm a pretty competitive person.

I'm trying to get better about actually wearing what I have.

I think being somewhat of a workaholic - and it's not healthy by any stretch - but I think you place your self-worth on your career, and as far as I was concerned, my career was crap.

I never saw how going back to a job I loved at the No. 1 sports network in the world could be seen as a step backwards. There are people on Twitter that think it is.

I can't pretend that I haven't been a Spurs fan for 30 years.