Dream Comes True, Alyssa Milano to Be a Post-Season Correspondent on MLB.com
Alyssa Milano has been booked to serve as a post-season correspondent on MLB.com.
Alyssa Milano has landed her other dream job besides that of acting and fashion designer. The beauty has been hired to serve as an official online correspondent for America's summer sport, covering baseball online for TBS Hot Corner on MLB.com.
TBS Hot Corner is a new broadband channel from Turner Broadcasting's TBS, which will be broadcasting the major league division series and the National League Championship Series for the first time this season.
And Milano, who's been a lifelong baseball fan, a Los Angeles Dodgers season ticket holder, and already has a popular blog on MLB.com, called Touch 'em All, will be in hand contributing regular reports and features from major league stadia as teams race to make the playoffs. The reports will range from interviews with players, coaches and fans, to features on calorie counting at the park and the best in baseball attire.
"Alyssa Milano has been a popular figure in the world of entertainment for a number of years and we're excited to pair her star power with her passion for baseball to give fans an insiders look at the MLB post-season," Jeff Ogan, Turner Sports senior director of production, said in a statement. "In her role on TBS Hot Corner she'll take fans behind-the-scenes from the clubhouse to the concession stands, offering entertaining reports on all things baseball like only she can."
Milano herself, who will begin her new job on September 17th, said the deal is "literally a dream job come true!" while is hoping "to give fans an insider's perspective."
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Alyssa Milano Raises Awareness on Neglected Tropical Diseases
Alyssa Milano has been named the new lead ambassador for the Global Network For Neglected Tropical Disease Control.
Alyssa Milano turns tropical. The "Charmed" actress has been named the new lead ambassador for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control, the Sabin Vaccine Institute, a leader in the fight against "diseases of poverty," announced Thursday June 28th.
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are 13 chronic and disabling bacterial and parasitic infections called "diseases of poverty." They afflict the "poorest of the poor" - one billion people living on less than $2 per day in the most impoverished areas of the developing world.
Concerning her tapping, Milano will be responsible to raise the profile of NTDs by educating the media and general public of the plight faced by the one billion people afflicted by them and the importance in controlling and preventing this global health crisis.
To mark her new role as the network ambassador, Milano donated $250,000 (GBP125,000) to the Global Network Drug Fund, about which the beauty commented, "Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs (neglected tropical diseases). Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye."
