In 2006, Gammons was named as one of two field-level reporters for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, joining Bonnie Bernstein.

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.

* Dan Patrick-gained fame as co-host of ESPN's SportsCenter, attended EKU for two years on a basketball scholarship.

On December 1, 2010 Hershiser, Bobby Valentine and Dan Shulman were named as ESPN's new Sunday Night Baseball crew for the 2011 MLB season.

He made a return appearance to SportsCenter on August 8, 2004, when he co-hosted SportsCenter with Dan Patrick during ESPN's 25th Anniversary Celebration.

" ESPN's Dan Rafael noted that " so many people have a hand in BoxRec that the records aren't always accurate.

On December 1, 2010, Valentine, Orel Hershiser and Dan Shulman were named as ESPN's new Sunday Night Baseball crew for the 2011 MLB season.

In September, 2011, Patrick discovered that there are members of Dan Nation that are bringing signs referencing Patrick to College Gameday, ESPN's college football pregame show.

ESPN's Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann often made it a point to mention where he finished whenever NASCAR highlights were featured on Sportscenter.

On March 19, 2006, Tirico was replaced by ESPN's Dan Patrick, as Tirico was moved to the number two play-by-play team.

" As a tribute to Dan in later years, ESPN's Chris Berman would do the same when saying the name of New York Giants wide receiver Mark Ingram, pronouncing it " Marrrrrk In-gram ".

ESPN's Chris Berman often calls this division the " NFC Patrick " due to its geographical similarity to the old Patrick Division of the NHL, now known as the Atlantic Division.

The semifinals of the French Open consisted of four players ( Jelena Janković, Elena Dementieva, Samantha Stosur and Schiavone ) who had never won a Grand Slam singles event ; nevertheless, most in the tennis community, including ESPN's tennis commentary team of Mary Jo Fernandez, Patrick McEnroe and Brad Gilbert singled out Schiavone as the one player who was not a serious contender to win the title.

Ditka worked for both the NFL on NBC and CBS's The NFL Today, and he currently works on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and provided Friday night analysis on the Bears on CBS 2 Chicago, the CBS Chicago affiliate, called " 2 on Football " with former CBS 2 Sports Director Mark Malone.

Instead, TSN began to incorporate elements of ESPN's branding into their own throughout the year ; including a new logo based on ESPN's, the use of ESPN's BottomLine ticker, and the renaming of its flagship sports news program SportsDesk to SportsCentrea Canadian version ( in both format and spelling ) of SportsCenter.

By September 2010, both The Sporting News and Athlon Sports had ranked Kansas in their pre-season outlook as # 4 overall and, along with ESPN's Joe Lunardi, were projected to become a # 1 seed again in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.

Tarver became a mainstream celebrity after his rematch win over Jones, making appearances at late-night shows, appearing on the cover of both Ring and KO Magazine, being spotted by television cameras as a spectator at various boxing fights, and co-hosting ESPN's " Friday Night Fights " for one telecast.

Wednesdays also included an afternoon game, called ESPN DayGame which aired typically at 12: 30pm or 1pm ET on ESPN, making Wednesdays ESPN's primary day of baseball, as games aired both in the afternoon and in primetime.

In 2007, the team was ranked # 1 in ESPN's and CBSSports. com Pre-Season Polls and for the first time in 25 years, earned a # 1 ranking on Jan. 21, 2008 in the both the AP Poll and the ESPN / USA Today Coaches ' Poll.

As the station had to wait for ESPN's contract with rival KFAN to expire, it did not become an ESPN Radio affiliate until April 12 ( the same day that the Minnesota Twins were scheduled to play their inaugural game at Target Field against the Boston Red Sox ), and as a result Coast to Coast AM and Live on Sunday Night, it's Bill Cunningham were retained during this period ; conversely, one ESPN Radio program, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, was picked up by KSTP immediately following the format change.

NBC picked up the rights to ESPN's Sunday night games.

ESPN's post-All-Star Game schedule is likewise picked as little as two weeks ahead of time ( schedules for the first half of the season are usually set during the winter ).

John Amaechi, who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers ( as well as internationally with Panathinaikos BC of the Greek Basketball League and Kinder Bologna of the Italian Basketball League ), came out in February 2007 on ESPN's Outside the Lines program.

In yet another fight that would later by shown on ESPN's classic network, Saad Muhammad lost his title when Qawi knocked him out in 10 rounds.

In a 2011 interview on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, Cubs President Theo Epstein expressed a desire for the team to reach out to Bartman.

This mandate was phased out by the late 1990s, as the channel increasingly served as a second outlet for ESPN's mainstream sports coverage.

In the late 1990s, ESPN2 would phase out its youth-oriented format and begin to serve as a secondary outlet for ESPN's mainstream programming.

ESPN's Josh Gross attended the event from ringside and described his experience: " It was an all out war ... I've taken the time to thank fighters for their efforts maybe three times.

As with the games broadcast by ESPN's Monday Night Football, they are also aired on broadcast TV in the primary media markets of the participating teams, although the home team's market broadcasts the game only if it is sold out 72 hours before game time.

In October 2002 Speed bought out the remaining year of ESPN's three-year contract for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and in February 2003, began showing live exclusive coverage of the series.

In 2006, Berthiaume left ESPN to become chief sportscaster for the new SNY network started by the New York Mets ; however, in late January 2007, SNY let him out of his contract to Berthiaume to rejoin ESPN's SportsCenter on March 28, 2007, in order to work closer to his wife.

Fox got out of the hockey business in 1999 after being massively outbid-surprisingly, given Fox's low ratings-by ESPN's fellow Disney network ABC.

Simmons was upset that his explanation of ESPN's refusal to allow him into the league was edited out of a B. S.

Christie then recovered his own onside kick and the Bills scored on the fourth play of their ensuing drive with Reich's 38-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Don Beebe ( on a play in which one of Beebe's feet went partially out of bounds during the run before he made the catch — an illegal touching of the football ; this was pointed out on ESPN's " NFL Primetime " postgame recap as well as by Todd Christensen on the NBC broadcast ).

The camp was almost seen as standard for players coming out of college into the NBA ; according to ESPN's Ric Bucher, " or the past 24 years, every big man of any significance has spent at least one summer week trying to get close enough to Pete.

In an interview with Mike Greenberg on ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning on January 2, 2007, Bob Knight singled Newell out as one of the greatest coaches in men's college basketball history.

During the first season, the game between the New York Giants and New England Patriots ( the very first regular season game aired by ESPN ), had WABC-TV ( the American Broadcasting Company's flagship station out of New York City ) produce a completely separate telecast from ESPN's ( rather than an over-the-air station simply simulcasting ESPN's broadcast in the competing teams ' home markets ).

Michaels was originally slated to continue calling Monday Night Football for ESPN, but a trade was worked out between NBC and Disney, ABC and ESPN's parent company.

Deford immediately set out to get what was referred to by ESPN's Bill Simmons as a " murderer's row " of sportswriters to join The National.

Years later, Phelps said he wanted to hit it out because he did not want to watch himself on ESPN's SportsCenter all season making the out to complete Holman's gem.

Buck called play-by-play for the then-Louisville Redbirds, a minor league affiliate of the Cardinals, and was a reporter for ESPN's coverage of the Triple-A All-Star Game.

He also hosts ESPN's Who's No. 1 ?, and one of his favorite quotes is former Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green saying about the Chicago Bears, after they blew an upset chance, " They are who we thought they were!