It seems hard to believe, but ESPN's 30th Anniversary is right around the corner. The "Worldwide Leader" is planning a special edition of its signature sports news & highlight show "SportsCenter" with three of the network's most recognizable & longest-serving personalities sharing the anchor desk for the occasion, ESPN originals Bob Ley & Chris Berman, along with John Saunders. While the show will focus mainly on the big sports news, scores & highlights, ESPN will find room to take its viewers down memory lane along the way, showing retrospective segments on the network's 3 decades on the air, not to mention the biggest stories Ley, Berman & Saunders worked on. The special "SportsCenter" is set to air at approximately 10:30p LIVE Sunday, September 6th, and will be rerun on Labor Day Monday, September 7th starting at 3:30a and replaying 5 times through 11a that morning, according to an ESPN press release via awfulannouncing.com. ESPN signed on the air September 7, 1979, and the rest is history.

I've never understood what the deal is with ESPN and their constant self love and self promotion. They have these huge events to congratulate themselves for how great and influential they've been and it makes me sick. I haven't seen any other stations constantly fellating themselves like these guys. They made me sick for their 25th anniversary stuff a few years back. What was it a whole year of self love?

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Maybe Chris Berman will contract ego cancer.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony

Disney.

In the mid to late 80s when I got cable, I remember watching ESPN with gramps, so I had a lot of early memories of it. I grew up with it and watched every sportscenter for most of the 90s. I think once the Bulls run was done near the mid to late 90s, I started to notice the east coast bias. It was also right about the time I found 670. So I switched off and havent really switched back since. When Patrick and Olbermann started, it was must watch. Craig Kilborn was up near their level. I never liked Berman. I never liked most of their "experts". I thought they did a decent job with the NHL. Ill occasionally listen to 1000, but never any of the national stuff.

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I remember when Dan Patrick & Keith Olbermann did "SportsCenter" in the early '90s, they called it "The Big Show". That was because Dan & Keith's broadcast aired right after marquee games on ESPN that preceded it, such as NFL "Sunday Night Football" games when Mike Patrick, Paul Maguire, Joe Theismann & Suzy Kolber broadcasted it. It was definitely "Must See TV" when Olbermann & Patrick were at the anchor desk together. As for Craig Kilborn, when he did the midnight "SportsCenter", he developed quite a cult following among college kids & third shifters. This was before he anchored "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central before Jon Stewart & replaced the late Tom Snyder on "The Late, Late Show" on CBS. Why he left what appeared to be good gigs on ESPN, Comedy Central & CBS, I'll never understand. Craig Ferguson has developed quite a following now since replacing Kilborn on "The Late, Late Show", and based on what I've read, he's got the highest rated comedy/talk show on all of late night TV. I wonder if Kilborn's regretting his decision to leave...

Isn't this kinda behavior standard for the entertainment industry, no matter what genre?
If our Moms were right, wouldn't all members, at all levels of entertainment, have hairy palms and be blind?

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