Jun 06, 2007
Spelling Bee Winner Gives CNN Anchor Hard Time
Via Best Week Ever, CNN’s Kyra Phillips Kiran Chetry learns that interviewing kids is the toughest job in news the hard way. It doesn’t help that her interviewee, Evan O’Dorney, the winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee held here in D.C. last week, seems to be a particularly tough nut to crack. If watching a truly uncomfortable situation makes you cringe more than smile, you might want to skip this one….
Jun 01, 2007
National Spelling Bee Comes to a Close
Evan O’Dorney, a 13-year-old from Danville, Calif., became the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion last night. His winning word was “serrefine” — a noun describing small forceps used for approximating the edges of a wound — which he successfully spelled after a long, tense final showdown with Nate Gartke of Spruce Grove, Alberta. Gartke had hoped to become the first Canadian to win the bee. If anyone out there watched the last few rounds…