three years as a paddock reporter for ESPN Radio, which won an Eclipse Award for its 2009 broadcast. He has also covered every Triple Crown race and Breeders' Cup since 2007 and every Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and Arlington Million since 2008. Flatter also covered the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, both for ESPN Radio and RSN927. Additional assignments for Flatter have included the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles (1984), and Winter Olympics both in Salt Lake City (2002) and Vancouver (2010) plus coverage of Usain Bolt’s world records in the IAAF World Championships at Berlin (2009). In 2000 Flatter produced a baseball feature for ESPN Radio that went on to earn the network an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Use of Sound. Game show contestant Flatter has also been a contestant on the TV shows Scrabble, Wheel of Fortune, and The Weakest Link. Flatter won $80,500 on the latter, when his opponent failed to answer this question from host Anne Robinson: “What word for a machine that performs human tasks literally translates to the Czech term for `compulsory labor’?” The man answered “automaton,” but the correct response is robot. Here's a Facebook clip of Flatter winning $80,500 on The Weakest Link (US). Cricket throwing controversy Flatter broke a story involving the examination of how one controversial cricket star delivers what would be the equivalent of a baseball pitch. This particular cricket story made headlines worldwide in November 2004, following a phone interview Flatter conducted with the Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, who argued that three Australian players (Jason Gillespie, Brett Lee, and Glenn McGrath) most likely were regularly breaking soon-to-be updated rules against throwing. Cricket bowlers are not allowed to flex their elbows. If they do they are called for throwing - something Muralitharan has a reputation for doing. His point about the Aussies was that the speed of the game had advanced to such a point that the umpires’ naked eyes could no longer be trusted to accurately judge the rule, and that the electronic eye should be the game’s final arbiter in these cases. The Australian Football Association of North America wrote about Flatter and the Muralitharan story, and mentions a story from the Herald Sun newspaper in Australia about Flatter's work. Lawsuit controversy Without being a named defendant, Flatter was the centerpiece of evidence used in a lawsuit filed against Fox