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Le Batard graduated from the University Of Miami in 1990 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and politics. During his college career, he was a sportswriter for the college newspaper, '' The Miami Hurricane ''. He received criticism for helping to escalate the rancor in the UM versus Notre Dame rivalry by publishing the phone number of the Notre Dame athletic department and by referring to coach Lou Holtz as Sir Lou, or Lou Sir (Loser), calling on readers to call all through the week of the game to help distract the coaches. Le Batard began work at the '' Miami Herald '' in 1990 and is a columnist for their sports section. His first major work for ''The Herald'' was to investigate his former college's football team, leading to the Pell Grant scandal and NCAA sanctions against the football team. He has also written for a number of magazines including '' Cosmopolitan '', '' Maxim '', and '' ESPN The Magazine ''. Le Batard hosts an afternoon radio show weekdays with Jon "Stugotz" Weiner on WAXY 790 ("The Ticket") AM weekdays 3-7pm in (Such as "Hi, how are you doing today?" or "What's up?"), or their call is immediately dropped after the show plays a suey montage. The "Suey" is named after a term Luther Campbell used to describe a rap record by basketball star Kobe Bryant . Campbell called it worse than garbage, worse than sewage... suey. The suey montage, on first play each day, will run over 30 seconds and includes strange and random sounds from past shows. A further example of Le Batard's self-deprecation and supposedly "hatable-ness" is a series of billboards around Miami that advertise his radio show in which Le Batard's face seems to be covered by a large amount of bird Feces . (A number of artificial birds are perched atop the billboard to complete the effect.) Le Batard is an outspoken critic of disciplinarian coaches on his radio show and in his columns for '' ESPN The Magazine '', feeling that the disciplinarian style of coaching is ill-suited to the modern era of high player salaries and guaranteed contracts. Le Batard is a frequent contributor to many programs on the ESPN television network. Among others, he is a recurring guest on '' Outside The Lines '', '' The Sports Reporters '', '' College GameDay ''. He is also a regular guest host of '' Pardon The Interruption '', where he has been christened "The Hatable Dan Le Batard" or Dan LeBastard due to his sometimes controversial (and usually contrarian) opinions. Hosting duties on ''PTI'' have allowed Le Batard the implementation of the catch-phrase "Bam!", which he exclaims in various ways at the beginning of each show he guest hosts. TRIVIA
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