IF you hear “Da me tres” in a Knicks-game recap, you’ll know it’s lolita lopez and no one else. When the WPIX sports broadcaster first began sprinkling some Spanish into her reports, Lopez says, “I didn’t even realize I had done it. It just kind of came out.”
The news director “totally supported it” and the rest is history. Now she has a slew of Spanish phrases for each sport (see sidebar).
Speaking Spanish certainly doesn’t hurt when covering baseball in New York.
“You have many players that aren’t able to speak [English well] but they had a great game and you want to talk to them. Other reporters kind of shy away because they don’t understand them.”
Off-camera, Lopez is more about family than fame. The mother of 3 1/2-year-old Lulu Lopez laughs, “I basically never put on makeup or fixed my hair until I got into TV.”
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