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3 unusual facts about ESPN2


Sports Challenge

Sports Challenge is believed to be completely intact; Classic Sports Network (now "ESPN Classic"), ESPN, and ESPN2 have all aired the series in the past, with The Walt Disney Company (which owns 80% of ESPN) presumably owning any format rights along with the episodes.

UFC Primetime

An industry source told MMAjunkie ESPN2 scored 144,000 viewers for the 11 p.m. replay and 105,000 viewers for the 11:30 p.m. airing.

USA Rock Paper Scissors League

The 2007 USARPS League National Championship aired on ESPN2 on 7 July.


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2008 WNBA season

The WNBA on national television (ABC and ESPN2) finished up 19% both in ratings (0.32 vs 0.27) and viewership (413,000 vs. 346,000).

Álvaro Morales

Álvaro Morales (born 1980) is a SportsCenter anchor for ESPN Deportes and ESPN2 (Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador) since June 2006.

Ari Wolfe

Wolfe's impressive resume lead ESPN to hire him as the play-by-play man for the Madden Challenge in 2007, shown on Superbowl Sunday on ESPN2.

Armed Forces Foundation

The program has received recognition from Congressional leaders, ESPN, ESPN2, Outdoor Channel, The Sportsman Channel, Pentagon Channel, and Fox News.

ESPN Hollywood

ESPN Hollywood was a television program that aired on ESPN2 in 2005.

Fisher Field

the 2006 edition was televised nationally on ESPN2 as part of the High School Showcase (it was the last Thanksgiving high school football game ESPN has aired to date).

J. C. Pearson

Pearson left Fox following the 2008 season to return to ESPN to call college football games on ESPN2 and ESPN with Dave Lamont.

Kristi Lee

Lee was also featured on ESPN and ESPN2 as a side line reporter, covering events like lacrosse, auto racing, and the first three X Games on ESPN2.

Lawrence North High School

They then won the 4A state title three years in a row (2004, 2005 and 2006) led by Greg Oden and Mike Conley, Jr. During the 2004–2005 basketball season, two Lawrence North basketball games were nationally televised: one on INHD and another on ESPN2.

Nationwide Series

Since 2007, ESPN2 as well as ABC and ESPN have been the exclusive carrier of all Nationwide Series races, replacing Fox, FX, TNT and NBC.

Red Rowdies

Two of them, Corry Worrell and Brandon Pittman, were guests on ESPN2's Cold Pizza on December 5, 2006.

South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball

The team does not have an official television partner, but Jackrabbit games have been televised on Midco Sports Net, Fox College Sports, the Big Ten Network, ESPN2, ESPNU, and local television networks.

Spandan Daftary

Spandan "Spoon" Daftary (born April 13, 1981 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a 2-time Emmy Award–winning associate producer, whose most recent work includes ESPN2's Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, which was cancelled by the network in January 2007.

Stephan Bonnar

He has also made appearances as an analyst on the ESPN2 series MMA Live and for UFC broadcasts on the Fox television networks.

Thoroughbred Racing on ESPN

NTRA Racing to the Kentucky Derby was a series of races produced by NTRA Productions that air on ESPN or ESPN2.

Toque Inicial

Toque Inicial is a Mexican sports-talk radio and television show hosted by Poncho Vera and Juan Pablo Fernandez on Grupo Formula and simulcast on television, normally on ESPN2.

Toyota/Save Mart 350

The 1998 race started on ESPN2 because a golf tournament, which aired before the race, was in a playoff.

What More Do I Need?

That led to outcries after the Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500km at Phoenix International Raceway, which was running over because of a rain delay and a late-race red flag, was pushed to ESPN2 in the Eastern and Central Time Zones to protect this episode, leading to a complaint about another Heidi Game ruse.

WYMT-TV

Jay Crawford (Creator of "Sports Overtime" on WYMT) - went on to become host of ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" (later changed to "First Take").


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