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    Watch: ESPN host keeps composure as earthquake erupts mid-show

    By Chelena Goldman,

    4 hours ago

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    ESPN reporter Malika Andrews.

    If there is ever an ESPY award for maintaining on-camera composure during the threat of a natural disaster, Malika Andrews should be a nominee.

    A 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit Southern California while Andrews was in the middle of interviewing basketball analyst Rebecca Lobo on ESPN's "NBA Today." Andrews and Lobo were in the middle of discussing Team USA's performance in the Paris Olympics' women's basketball final when the set around Andrews began to shake.

    "It was so much fun to see, particularly the crowd getting behind — as we have a bit of an earthquake here in Los Angeles," Andrews said with a seamless transition. "So we're just going to make sure that our studio lights and everything stays safe, everything's shaking."

    Andrews then checked in with the crew off-camera before continuing.

    Team USA's women's team won its eighth straight gold medal over the weekend when it came from behind to defeat host France 67-66.  The Americans were down by as many as 10 points in the second half as the French held them to their lowest point total in an Olympic gold medal game.

    "We were just resilient in what we needed to do to go bucket for bucket," A'ja Wilson said after the game, via The Athletic . "That is great basketball. That is what people want to see, our defense settled in and we started getting stops."

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