Samantha Rivera became a star overnight. The reporter is covering the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final for CBS News Miami. Monday night, during a report from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, a fan tried to get in her live shot and was stopped in his tracks by a devastating stiff arm.
“I don’t know if I heard him or felt him, but I sensed him, and the second I did, my arm just came out,” she told Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina. “It’s not gonna happen! I was annoyed.”
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The moment went viral on social media. Even the NFL took notice, drawing comparisons to Derrick Henry of the Tennessee Titans.
The stiff arm also elicited reactions from her colleagues at all levels of sports media.
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