ESPN's New Commentator On Calling the World Cup: Stay Out of the Way

With any luck, the lasting sound of this summer's World Cup won't be the massively commercialized event's official (and inexplicable) "song" from alleged musician Pitbull

No, a much better soundtrack to have rattling around your head for the next several months would be the measured tones of Jon Champion, ESPN's newest commentator, who will make his debut for the American World Cup audience this summer. The only catch? Champion hopes you don't remember him — at least not that much

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"It's a bit like being a referee," Champion told Mashable in a phone interview earlier this month. "In a sense, if I get noticed too much then I'm not doing my job — which is to caption the picture and not dominate the proceedings." Read more...

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