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Interviews he'd really like to see

We all remember the Jim Mora Sr. meltdown.

Who can forget Dennis Green's psychotic moment after his Cardinals lost to the Bears?

Throw in Herm Edwards' summary of why you play football (to win the game), and the interview room is a very entertaining place to be.

We know those moments so well because they happen on sports' biggest stage — and with a throng of cameras recording it all for posterity.

But every day, in little nooks and crannies of the world, similar scenes play out and no one can see them.

I have been involved in some strange postgame interviews in my time that would rival the Moras, Greens and Edwards of the world.

Like the time a high-school football coach in Ohio banged his head repeatedly off a brick wall outside the locker room, climbed into his car and sped away before I could even ask him one question.

Like the time a high school girls basketball coach (again, in Ohio) was so frustrated after a loss, she told me a bunch of blind girls could play better.

Or any postgame interview withSeneca Valley boys basketball coach Vic Giannotta.

If only there were cameras present then. There would be so much more fodder for those Coors Light commercials.

And think about all the other obscure sports in the world where ESPN cameras never venture. It would be interesting to see some postgame or postmatch interviews with the personalities in these sports.

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Curling. A postgame presser with a losing curling coach may go something like this:"I don't care who you are! You can't dump and handle a stone like that and expect to win. We had a lazy handle. We went over the hog line and there was a lot of keen ice out there. But I'm not making any excuses."There will be no joy when we stack the brooms tonight."Such comments would be followed by a lot of confused looks from the viewers. The coach might as well have been speaking Klingon.•

Figure skating. Say there is a scoring controversy and a skater is accused of buying off the Canadian judge.You always have to keep your eye on those Canadians."Payoffs? Payoffs? Are you kidding me? Don't talk about payoffs! Payoffs?"•

Hunting. They provide a valuable service, killing animals that would otherwise kills us — or at least do major damage to our cars — as we drive down Route 8."The bears were who we thought they were!" Slow, hungry and particularly nasty when you shoo them away from the garbage can on your back porch.•

Westminster Dog Show. Just once I want to see ESPN News break in to show us the news conference of the winning dog owner who is accused of injecting his or her canine with performance enhancing drugs."Maybe Fluffy ate a tainted biscuit? Maybe some whiskey spilled into his water dish? Maybe he saw a female dog and his testosterone went skyward. I don't know? But Fluffy is not guilty."Says Fluffy, wagging his tail at Congress, "Woof."That's a denial if I ever heard one.

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