SELF IMPROVEMENT

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Michelle Beadle and Colin Cowherd's SportsNation show on ESPN2 moves into a new 5 p.m ET time slot Sept. 12 from its current home at 4 p.m. With her show celebrating its second anniversary this week and a new and better time slot, "Beadlemania" is growing.

No wonder ESPN used her to play up its ability to reach the hard-to-reach young male audience during its upfront presentation to advertisers in New York.

She's not afraid to speak her mind. She called acquitted Casey Anthony a "crappy human being" on a podcast with Linda Cohn and says LeBron James "seems to crumble in the face of really big pressure." She was one of the only ESPN personalities to admit to watching Internet videos of Andrews in the book, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. The tattooed Texas native has no regrets.

The self-described "single chick" has been open about her relationship with ESPN colleague Matthew Barnaby, who was just sentenced to 500 hours of community service after an argument with his estranged wife.

The couple checked with their bosses at ESPN and "nobody seemed to have a problem" with their relationship. "We actually recently decided to take a little break," she says about Barnaby.