ESPN's New
Commentator On
Calling the
World Cup: Stay Out of the Way
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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
**, 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 **t
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 **ticed too much then I'm **t doing my job — which is to caption the picture and **t dominate the proceedings."
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