The Michigan Times

Issue date: 11/10/08 Section: Features

Krystle Holleman blogs on ESPN SportsNation, a social networking portion of sports Web site ESPN.com. The site chose her blog as one of its best blogs in NFL Week 7. She credits her parents and surroundings for her love of sports.

Flint - The Dallas Cowboys, at one time the popular choice to win this year's Super Bowl, were 4-2 heading into their Oct. 19 matchup with the struggling St. Louis Rams (1-4). There was reason to be confident, but UM-Flint journalism student Krystle Holleman did not buy into the hype.

Holleman is a member of ESPN SportsNation, a sort of MySpace for sports fans, and posts blog entries on the site regularly.

The week of the Cowboys-Rams matchup, Holleman posted a blog, under the pseudonym xbrunettexbombshellx, ripping the Cowboys for their inconsistent play and off the field episodes.

ESPN named it one of NFL Week 7's best blogs and featured it in the game's preview.

"I started venting about whatever I felt like," Holleman said. "That week it happened to be about how bad the Cowboys were."

Holleman's blog seems to be prophetic; the Cowboys had lost two out of their last three games at press time and sat in last place in the NFC East standings.

Holleman explained that her parents as well as her surroundings have impacted her love of sports. Holleman graduated from Lapeer East High School and felt that her town was divided between the respective sports programs of Lapeer East and Lapeer West.

Holleman said she also feels that sports are hard to avoid at the University of Michigan.

"I think being at Michigan you are a sports fan of some sort; you're so exposed to it," Holleman said. "You have football everywhere."

Holleman hopes to be a sports journalist on television one day covering NASCAR, a combination of her love for sports and entertainment.

"My main goal in life was to meet Justin Timberlake and 'N Sync," Holleman said. "I wanted to be an entertainment reporter. I wanted to be on E!. I wanted to be Sally Jesse Raphael."

After graduating from UM-Flint, Holleman plans to attend graduate school, ironically, at the University of North Texas, which is located just to the northwest of Dallas.

"I think about going to Texas everyday, especially now when it's kind of cold," Holleman said. "I had to scrape my windows this morning."


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