The original sports hottie TV reporter was Hannah Storm and she has been gone for sports for a few years but she is back. ESPN is staring a morning edition of their award winning SportsCenter. Storm has been hired to anchor the new edition.

In a reshaping of the network’s signature show, Hannah Storm is joining ESPN as the co-anchor of a new SportsCenter morning edition, SI.com has learned. The formal announcement is expected to come Tuesday morning in New York City at ESPN’s upfront presentation — the annual May event in which giddy television executives unveil to advertisers its future programming plans. Two additional extended morning SportsCenters are expected to follow the Storm-fronted show. “We’re declining comment,” said ESPN spokesperson Mike Soltys on Saturday.

ESPN probably should have done this years ago. At least the morning version will slightly be different than the one they have been repeating 7x in a row in the mornings from the night before. Storm will be competing against ESPN2′s Mike & Mike and First Take.