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Aussie Tennis Gives McKendry Brief Respite From Studio

More than a few former ESPN types have traveled a great distance, in television parlance, to escape the constraints of the Worldwide Leader's studios, from Keith Olbermann's journey to news to Craig Kilborn's excursion to late night television and subsequent obscurity. SportsCenter anchor Chris McKendry's jaunt to...

'HouseCast 12: Kathleen Hessert Talks SportsCenter Blog Buzz, Athlete Tweets

The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.Kathleen Hessert, the President of Sports Media Challenge, had a vision in 2004 of a technologically superior method of determining the "buzz" surrounding a particular athlete, organization or team. It finally came to full-on fruition this past week when...

Obama Urges Black Fathers to Turn Off SportsCenter

Yesterday was Father's Day, and as is fitting with the political season, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a confrontational speech at a Chicago church about fatherhood and responsibility, a speech the New York Times said "would be difficult for a white candidate to make." It was one of those.The message...

ESPN Will Go Live All Morning

We previously noted that ESPN had hired Hannah Storm to serve as a morning SportsCenter anchor, and now the Worldwide Leader has offered more details. ESPN has decided to cease its longstanding practice of re-running the previous night's SportsCenter all morning long and will now instead offer live broadcasts from 6 a.m....

The Brilliant Adam Vinatieri SportsCenter Ad

There's a new SportsCenter commercial that shows kicker Adam Vinatieri, who's won three Super Bowl rings with the Patriots and one with the Colts, trying to get through the metal detector at the ESPN offices and failing because of his rings:The spot would be OK if it were just Vinatieri trying to get through security, but...

SportsCenter News From the Web

04/23/11 Added to queue Source: YouTube Go to ESPN's YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/espn check out the rules and submit your great sports video.
11/09/10 ESPN SportsCenter to go live from GrafenwÃ¶hr on... Source: Stars and Stripes - Washington DC Millions of Americans are expected to tune in Thursday to a live Veterans Day broadcast of ESPN's SportsCenter from GrafenwÃ¶hr Training Center in Germany.
11/08/10 ESPN SportsCenter plans live Veterans Day broadcast... Source: Stars and Stripes - Washington DC Millions of Americans are expected to tune in Thursday to a live Veterans Day broadcast of ESPN's SportsCenter from GrafenwÃ¶hr Training Center in Germany.
08/10/10 'SportsCenter' To Expand With Weekday Afternoon,... Source: Multichannel News ESPN officials report there will be more SportsCenter at month's end.

Background on SportsCenter

SportsCenter is a daily sports news television show, and the flagship program of American cable network ESPN since the network launched on September 6, 1979. Originally broadcast only daily, SportsCenter is now shown up to twelve times a day, replaying the day's scores and highlights from major sporting events, along with commentary, previews and feature stories.

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