Founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan, it launched on September 7, 1979, under the direction of Chet Simmons, the network's President and CEO ( and later the United States Football League's first commissioner ).

Also, ESPN. com Page 2 columnist Bill Simmons often jokes that he is looking forward to running a future network ; SportsCenter anchors appeared as themselves in music videos by Brad Paisley ( I'm Gonna Miss Her ( The Fishin ' Song )) and Hootie and the Blowfish ( Only Wanna Be With You ); and the 1998 TV series Sports Night was based on an ESPN-style network and its titular, SportsCenter-analogue flagship sports results program.

Wallingford is home to the Choate Rosemary Hall school ( which graduated John F. Kennedy, John Dos Passos, Glenn Close, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Douglas, Bill Simmons, Ivanka Trump, and Adlai Stevenson ).

A brief period of hiatus followed during which Simmons collaborated with bassist and songwriter John Cowan ( ex-New Grass Revival ), Rusty Young ( of Poco ) and Bill Lloyd ( of Foster & Lloyd ) on an unreleased project called Four Wheel Drive.

* May 16, 1953, Curt Simmons / Philadelphia Phillies ( single by Milwaukee Braves ' Bill Bruton )

The degree to which ordinary Red Sox fans ever believed in the curse has been questioned, e. g., by Bill Simmons in his 2005 book, Now I Can Die in Peace.

* Bill Simmons, ESPN Writer and radio / television personality.

* " Bony Moronie ": John Lennon, Johnny Burnette, Dr. Feelgood, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels, Johnny Winter, Little Richard, Paul Jones, Bobby Comstock Showaddywaddy, The Who, Jumpin ' Gene Simmons, The Shadows, Ritchie Valens, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Creation, Freddy Fender, The Aztecs, The Rebel Rousers, The Standells, Hush.

In his book Now I Can Die in Peace, Bill Simmons writes that the Boston owners and Theo Epstein had ordered Little to remove Pedro from the game when he finished the seventh inning and / or topped the three-digit pitch count.

The most frequently seen guest hosts are sportswriters Dan Le Batard of The Miami Herald, Bill Simmons of ESPN. com and Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe and ESPN's similarly-styled Around The Horn.

The hosts deemed it not difficult enough, but, fortunately for Chestnut, former champion Bill " El Wingador " Simmons was present and declared the stunt to have a high level of difficulty, upon which the hosts accepted his offer, with a five-minute time limit to complete the challenge.

In 2002, Philadelphia native Bill ″ El Wingador ″ Simmons became the first competitor to win the Bowl three times ; Kevin " Heavy Keavy " O ' Donnell had won Wing Bowl II and Wing Bowl III in ' 94 and ' 95.

Bill Simmons became the first man to win the Bowl four times, and the first to win it three times in a row ( again beating O ' Donnell's previous ' 94 -' 95 record ).

Bill Simmons, who at the time worked for ESPN, deemed Lilith Sternin as one of least favorite characters of Cheers.

* J. K. Simmons, as Buffalo Bill Cody

ESPN columnist Bill Simmons suggested the abbreviation " TAINT " ( Touchdown After INTerception ), but this largely failed to catch on, possibly because of other slang meanings of " taint.

In a November 16, 2007 column, Bill Simmons, " the Sports Guy ," compared NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to Pusser.

Other members included Jerry Elliot, Bill Simmons, John Walden, Jim Baker and Dale Cook.

Bill Simmons, previously from ESPN, praised Danson's performance for giving life and color to Sam Malone.

On June 8, 2011, ESPN's Bill Simmons launched a sports and popular culture website titled Grantland. com, a name intended to honor Rice's legacy.

In a 2012 interview with ESPN's Bill Simmons, basketball great Larry Bird said that it was his favorite arena to play in.

The only eaters besides Kobayashi to defeat Thomas between the 2004 and 2005 Nathan's contests were Bill " El Wingador " Simmons in the controversial 2005 Wing Bowl, and Dale Boone, who won a contest eating overheated baked beans after he doused the beans in water to cool them down.

Bill Simmons, who wrote previously for ESPN, considered her one of his two least favorite characters, along with Lilith Sternin.

He also serves as a contributing editor for Grantland, a sports journalism website founded by ESPN's Bill Simmons.

Cowboy Bill Watts, whose promotions always consisted of an African-American main event babyface, began pushing Ron Simmons, a midcarder, to main event status and eventually to the WCW World Heavyweight Championship upon being put in charge of World Championship Wrestling.

On Mother's Day Bill Hall hit a walk off home run with his mother in the stands, a play that was shown on ESPN throughout the summer.

* Rob Neyer: Senior writer at ESPN. com and national baseball editor of SBNation and former assistant to Bill James, he has worked to popularize sabermetrics since the mid-1980s.

* Bill Kazmaier, three time World's Strongest Man winner ; he has also appeared on ESPN as a commentator on World's Strongest Man broadcasts

In an interview with ESPN, Auerbach stated that his all-star fantasy team would consist of Bill Russell — who in the former's opinion was the ultimate player to start a franchise with — as well as Bob Pettit, Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, with John Havlicek as the sixth man.

Many other guest hosts were used in the past, including David Aldridge, Skip Bayless, Jay Bilas, Norman Chad, Mike Golic, Sally Jenkins, Max Kellerman, Tim Kurkjian, Patrick McEnroe, Bill Plaschke, Rick Reilly, T. J. Simers, Dan Shaughnessy, Michael Smith, Stephen A. Smith, Michele Tafoya, Mike Tirico, Bob Valvano, and Ralph Wiley of ESPN and sportswriters Jason Whitlock of The Kansas City Star and David Dupree and Jon Saraceno of USA Today.

* ESPN Five-Derby Winner Bill Hartack Dies

On May 15, 2007, to begin the Dallas Cowboys ' spring mini-camp under new head coach Wade Phillips, Owens was questioned by ESPN about what he learned during his one-season experience with former head coach Bill Parcells.

Left-handed catchers have only caught eleven big-league games since 1902, However, some observers, including the famed statistician Bill James and ESPN writer Rob Neyer, have suggested that the real reason that there are no left-handed catchers is because left-handed players with strong throwing arms are almost always encouraged, at an early age, to become pitchers.

Following the Kill Bill controversy, Disney, the parent of ESPN, fired Easterbrook in October 2003.

American Idol 2012 Auditions In 2007, writer Bill Evans named Heinz Field the second best stadium in the NFL, behind Lambeau Field, in an article for ESPN. com.

In 2007, the Great Hall was named the best concourse at an NFL stadium by writer Bill Evans, in an article for ESPN. com.

In his work at ESPN he has interviewed top professional athletes such as Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan as well as two American Presidents, then-Senator Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

He started his career working for Bill James and STATS, and then joined ESPN. com as a columnist from 1996 to January 2011 before becoming SB Nation's National Baseball Editor.

NBA great Bill Bradley, Naismith Hall of Fame Coaches Chuck Daly, Jack Ramsay and John Chaney, best-selling sports author John Feinstein, and CBS / ESPN analyst Bill Raftery are interviewed.

The games were shown in the United States on ESPN, with Ken Wilson and Bill Clement in the booth.

Rick Apodaca is the alltime leader in points scored in Hudson County high school basketball history, surpassing a thirty-five plus year record held by current ESPN College Basketball analyst Bill Raftery in 1999, and was also inducted to the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame.

As seen on ESPN: " After the final cast was made, however, bragging rights for the title of " best bass fishermen in Congress " went to U. S. Representative Bill Jenkins ( R-TN ), who teamed up with BASS Elite Series pro Dave Wolak and Toyota's Charlie Ing to finish with five bass weighing 18 pounds, 9 ounces.