Today's Knucklehead Award goes to sideline reporter Danyelle Sargent of Fox Sports.

Before last Sunday's 49er game, she interviewed Mike Singletary about becoming head coach. This is what she said to Mike: "I hear that your mentor Bill Walsh was one of the first calls you made when you found out you had the job."

Singletary looked like he wanted to faint. And I must say, if Singletary has Walsh's phone number in heaven I wish he'd give it to me. I have a million things I want to discuss with Bill.

Sargent's adventure didn't end with the stupid question -- the stupidest question ever asked in the history of sports reporting in the United States of America?

You could see her talking to someone in her earphone. "What did I say?" she asked. "What was wrong?"

What was wrong. Oh please, Danyelle, find another line of work.

Fox never aired this bit -- call it an out take -- but other outlets did. Fox was outraged about the unauthorized use of this knucklehead interview. And although, a few days ago you could view this classic on the internet, to the best of my knowledge it's been yanked off. Too bad.

Fox has spun the issue, saying other outlets were not in their rights to air Sargent's blunder. As if that's the real issue. The real issue is she thinks Bill Walsh is alive -- somehow she missed the death.

Later on she came out and said she "misspoke."

Misspoke?

Misspeaking is when you say, "I'll meet you at 7 o'clock but you really mean 6." Misspoke is not when you say Singletary called a dead man. That's called being uninformed, unprofessional. Sargent is the same reporter who, on air a few years ago, used the F word when she thought her mike was off.

Thats' two collosal screwups in her young career. When she used the F word I wonder if she misspoke. Women reporters are fighting hard -- and well -- to get credibility in the sports world. Sargent threatens to set them back.