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43 unusual facts about SportsCenter


2001 Miami Hurricanes football team

Prior to the 2006 Rose Bowl, ESPN's SportsCenter ran a special in which the 2005 USC Trojans, led by stars Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush, and LenDale White, were compared with the greatest college teams of the past 50 years, as picked by sports fans voting on ESPN.com, to determine their place in history.

Adirondack Frostbite

In 2004, ESPN SportsCenter anchor Steve Levy and NHL analyst Barry Melrose became the team's owners and the team changed its name to the Frostbite.

Ali Baba Bunny

During his SportsCenter tenure, Rich Eisen would occasionally use the "Hassan chop!" phrase when a highlight showed a baseball player tossing his bat in disgust.

Anne Marie Anderson

Following graduation from Hofstra, Anderson relocated to Bristol, CT and worked as a production assistant, assignment editor and associate producer on ESPN staples such as SportsCenter, NFL Gameday and Outside the Lines.

Boom goes the dynamite

ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt sent Collins words of encouragement and paid homage to him using the "boom" catchphrase on the air several times.

Chris McKendry

Currently, she primarily serves as co-anchor of the 12-3pm ET weekday block of live SportsCenter shows, alongside Jay Crawford.

Colleen Dominguez

She’s an L.A. based media member who appears on multiple programs including SportsCenter, Outside the Lines and Outside the Lines Nightly.

Daniel Brailovsky

He was then a correspondent for SportsCenter and Fútbol Picante, as well as the radio/TV show ESPN Radio Formula.

Darren Woodson

Since his retirement, Woodson has worked as a football analyst for ESPN, appearing on programs such as NFL Live and SportsCenter.

Dave Revsine

Previously, he was a journalist at ESPN anchoring on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS, along with play-by-play on select college basketball games.

David Aldridge

Aldridge frequently appeared on SportsCenter as well asNBA 2 Night (now NBA Fastbreak) and NBA Today. Aldridge conducted interviews for the SportsCenter "Sunday Conversations" with LeBron James, Allen Iverson, Shaquille O'Neal, Karl Malone and many others.

Doug Gottlieb

Gottlieb was also a frequent guest on other ESPN television shows, including SportsCenter and also on College Basketball Gameday Final.

Fiction Reform

Their song "Small Silhouette" was featured on ESPN's SportsCenter LA in October 2009 and was the first public exposure of the song.

George A. Hirsch

From 1984 to 1986, Hirsch was the on air host of a weekly segment on ESPN's SportsCenter called “The Runner’s Corner.

Gerald Green

Gerald Green left marks on the league with his highlight plays including a shot clock beating half court three against Indiana and two SportsCenter top play dunks in the closing seconds in two games against Toronto.

Gianluca Pagliuca

In the 1997 book The Big Show: Inside ESPN's SportsCenter, Olbermann remarked, "We'll spare you which expletive."

Because of his colourful name, former SportsCenter anchor and current ESPN host Keith Olbermann uses his name as a creative way of airing someone cursing on camera in the midst of an argument with an official.

Henry Cejudo

Other appearances include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN’s SportsCenter, Access Hollywood, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Japan’s popular Ninja Warrior television show, in which Cejudo was one of the 100 contestants in the 21st SASUKE tournament, along with Tomohiro Matsunaga, the 2008 Olympic Silver medalist that Henry defeated, and various local news programs across the nation.

Jemele Hill

Hill also makes regular appearances on television, including SportsCenter and several ESPN programs, including ESPN First Take, Outside the Lines and The Sports Reporters.

John Dykes

Over the years, he has been the host of Inside Cricket and The Formula One pre-show, Raceday, as well as launching Sportsline - the predecessor to SportsCenter - in India.

Lexington Legends

The event received coverate on various television programs including NBC's The Tonight Show, ESPN's Pardon the Interruption and SportsCenter, and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Linda Cohn

Cohn returned to the East Coast in 1992, when she was hired by ESPN to work on SportsCenter, and has since become a familiar face among SportsCenter viewers.

She has also been featured in many of the show's comical This is SportsCenter commercials.

Mallory Holtman

In the weeks following the initial ESPN.com reports, Holtman and Wallace, often with Tucholsky, have appeared on Inside Edition, The Early Show, ESPN First Take, SportsCenter, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Matt Winer

Winer worked for ESPN from 2001 through 2009 He was often seen as an anchor on ESPNEWS and the 6:00pm ET edition of SportsCenter, or as a host of NBA Fastbreak and College Football Scoreboard.

Mike Yam

During Yam's time at ESPN, he could be seen anchoring SportsCenter, as well as hosting college football live and college basketball final.

My Nah Nah Nah

Turk hears about a risky therapeutic hypothermia procedure while watching SportsCenter, and he considers using it in an attempt to restore a paralyzed teenager's ability to walk.

Rich Eisen

Among Eisen's notable achievements while at ESPN, was breaking the news of St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire's retirement from baseball in 2001 on SportsCenter.

Rob Paternostro

Whilst recovering from injury in 1999, Paternostro worked at ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut putting together highlight packages for SportsCenter and NBA Tonight.

Robert Flores

Joining the network in 2005, Flores is an anchor for ESPNEWS and for ESPN's SportsCenter (2007–present).

Robert Raven Kraft

Raven's 38-year daily running streak has earned him local, national, and international press coverage, including an article in Runner's World Magazine, a profile on the National Public Radio show Weekend Edition, as well as a short feature on SportsCenter.

Sage Steele

Steele worked at ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa, Florida, from 1998 to 2001, where she was a sports reporter with former WFTS sports director and current SportsCenter host Jay Crawford.

For 5 years prior to the NBA assignment, Steele was a full-time co-host of "SportsCenter" ESPN's flagship show, and has previously contributed to ESPN First Take, Mike & Mike in the Morning, and SportsNation.

Scott Van Pelt

He left the channel in 2001 to join ESPN, where he serves as a presenter for SportsCenter and is one of the network's top golf correspondents, covering major tournaments such as the Masters Tournament.

Steve Phillips

Phillips was hired as a baseball color analyst for ESPN prior to the 2005 baseball season, and was a regular on the nightly programs Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter.

T. J. Quinn

Quinn contributes to several ESPN programs including SportsCenter and Outside the Lines.

Taurian Fontenette

Video clips of the feat have been shown on ESPN's SportsCenter and also have been widely distributed over the internet.

This Is Home

The song was also featured on ESPN SportsCenters "Titletown" segment which ran throughout July 2008.

Thomas DeCoud

In a SportsCenter interview on September 27, 2012, Decoud played the "Meow Game" from the movie Super Troopers.

Todd McShay

He makes regular appearances on a number of ESPN programs, including ESPNU Coaches Spotlight, SportsCenter, and ESPN Radio focusing on the NFL Draft.

Trevor Matich

He currently is employed by ESPN, primarily working on ESPN's College Football coverage along with appearances on SportsCenter.

Valdosta State University

SportsCenter visited each city in July, and fan voting July 23–27 determined the winner.

Zach Andrews

He earned the number-one spot on the "Top 10 Plays" of an edition of SportsCenter in 2005 after leaping over a player of the opposing team to slam an alley-oop.


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.

Butv10

This SportsCenter-style show covers everything Terrier related from ice hockey at Agganis Arena to soccer at Nickerson Field.

Fox Sports Central Asia

SportsCenter Asia was officially launched on May 27, 2002, with Jason Dasey as its original anchor.

Kevin Negandhi

In addition to hosting SportsCenter, he also hosts Baseball Tonight, College Football Live and Outside the Lines on ESPN and is a fill-in anchor on NFL Live and Cold Pizza.

Matt Winer

He also hosted the SportsCenter 30 at 30 Update during Saturday Night Football and game updates during ABC's coverage of college football.

Robert Flores

Flores hosted the live afternoon edition of SportsCenter from noon - 3 p.m. with Chris McKendry until early September 2009, when he was replaced with John Buccigross.

The George Michael Sports Machine

In 2011, Czarniak left WRC to take a position at ESPN and initially was an overnight anchor at ESPNews before becoming a fixture on SportsCenter, where she anchors the 6 PM broadcast with John Anderson.

The Miracle at Michigan

Before the 1994 season, running back Rashaan Salaam was quoted in the Colorado Media Guide on what would be his favorite SportsCenter highlight.