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Leave it to ESPN, the beacon of legitimate sports journalism (E:60, Who's Now, Fan Feast), to find a way to benefit from having a sportscaster's privacy violated.

If you haven't heard, some Battlestar Gallactica loving perv placed a camera in ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews' hotel room. And get this - she was....NAKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The truth is this video is the best thing that could ever happen to Andrews career.

Where would Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton be without their sex tapes? This is essentially Andrews' sex tape.

So ESPN's holier-than-thou response is as laughable as it is hypcritical.

Isn't ESPN saying they won't report on naked Erin Andrews making the story even bigger? What about their move to ban all New York Post staff from programming for running still photos of the video in their newspaper?

Nope. That difuses the situation.

If anyone involved (including Andrews) truly wasn't trying to milk this non-story for all it's worth, they would ignore the entire situation.

This entire melodrama has exploded in large part because of the reactions by Andrews and ESPN.

While it is wholly reprehensible that some tortured pervert decided to put a hidden camera in Andrews' hotel room, it's not like we saw anything groundbreaking. It would be one thing if Andrews was filmed having sex, or if she secretly was a he. But that's not the case.

What we've got is a five minute, grainy video of a hot, naked blonde woman, flat ironing her hair. Great. Now all the Maxim readers have some new masturbation material.

Think millions of people would flock to no-name websites to see Mary Carillo walking around nude? Suzy ("I want to kiss you") Kolber? Andrea Kramer?

If Andrews wasn't the hottest female sports reporter ever, and if ESPN and Andrews didn't go all John Ashcroft in response, nobody would care.