* 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.

This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo ( father of ESPN anchor Trey Wingo ), Sam Angeloff ( the founding managing editor of Us magazine ), and Robert Emmett Ginna ( later a producer of films ); writers James Watters ( a theater reviewer ) and Ronald B. Scott ( later a biographer of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney ); former Time senior editor Richard Burgheim ( later the founder of Times ill-fated cable television magazine View ); Chief of Photography, a Life photographer, John Loengard, to be succeeded by John Dominus, a noteworthy Life staff photographer ; and design artist Bernard Waber, author and illustrator of the Lyle The Crocodile book series for children.

ESPN's Joe Lunardi is the inventor of the term " bracketology ", starting first as the owner and editor of the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook and ending up as the resident bracketologist on ESPN.

He was news editor at Autosport magazine from 1992 to 1994 and in parallel worked as F1 pit lane reporter for American network ESPN from to.

Vince Doria, who later became Senior Vice President of ESPN, was the executive editor.

" Chris Connelly is another former editor who went on to work as a correspondent for ESPN and contributing correspondent for ABC's 20 / 20 and a commentator backstage at the Academy Awards.

Jon currently serves as a game analyst on ESPN while Brent works as a studio analyst on NBA TV.

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.

Although Joe Morgan's partnership with Jon Miller began in, it was not the first time that Morgan associated himself with ESPN, as from 1985 to 1988, Morgan called college baseball games for ESPN.

His former broadcast partner Jon Miller's contract expired in and ESPN chose not to renew his contract.

Jon Alan Barry ( born July 25, 1969 ) is an American former basketball player and current television analyst for ABC and ESPN.

* Jon Barry ESPN Bio

On July 2, 2006, Bernstein rejoined the ESPN family of networks as a field reporter for Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.

Jon David Gruden ( born August 17, 1963 ) is a former head coach and currently a color commentator for Monday Night Football on ESPN.

Thompson came out of retirement in 1991 to work part-time on Orioles games for WBAL-AM when Jon Miller was away broadcasting ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.

Cramer has also made appearances on NBC's Today, NBC Nightly News, Live with Regis and Kelly, ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, NBC's Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The ESPN Radio SportsCenter anchor for the most part is Jon Stashower.

Jon Greenberg of ESPN said the episode is one of his favorites, calling it " hardly an average episode ".

Sports: Bruce Rice ( deceased ), Kevin Harlan ( NFL on CBS ), Conrad Dobler, Ed Bieler, Jon Hart, Al Eschbach, Don Fortune, Kevin Wall ( ESPN ), Wayne Larrivee, Harold Ensley " The Sportsman's Friend ".

* Jon Sciambi, sportscaster for ESPN

After two years with ESPN ( 2000 – 01 ), Angel returned to the Giants in 2002 ( teaming with former Orioles partner Jon Miller ); and in 2004 he began a second tenure with the Orioles.

The Giants hired former Baltimore Orioles and ESPN announcer Jon Miller as Greenwald's replacement.

Robinson was named the greatest fighter of the 20th century by the Associated Press, and the greatest boxer in history by ESPN. com in 2007.

In 2007, ESPN. com featured the piece " 50 Greatest Boxers of All Time ", in which it named Robinson the top boxer in history.

In The Bronx Is Burning, the ESPN minseries based on the 1977 Yankees, he was portrayed by Leonard Robinson and portrayed as a person with financial problems.

In a recent interview with ESPN Deportes, Sosa said he would " calmly wait " for his induction into baseball's Hall of Fame, for which he will become eligible in 2013.

In March 2007 during an interview on The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio, Rose said, " I bet on my team every night.

In comments at his own website, and later during an interview on ESPN radio, James claimed that the Freeh report's characterizations of Paterno as a powerful figure were wrong, and that it wasn't Paterno's responsibility to report allegations of child molestation to the police.

With attendance routinely well below the league average, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled " Natural Disaster ," and ESPN anchors mocked the " Green Acres " of empty seats ; in a 2006 interview, Karmanos admitted that " as it turns out, was probably a mistake.

In an interview in, during his pursuit of a. 400 season batting average, Brett reportedly stated, “ The first thing I look for in the Sunday papers is who is below the Mendoza line .” The reference caught the attention of ESPN announcer Chris Berman, and the " Mendoza Line " became part of popular culture.

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.

An interview with ESPN revealed an acoustic DVD entitled " Unblackened " was in the works for 2012.

" according to Dowd in 1989, Dowd mentioned in a 2002 ESPN interview that he " probably did ".

That afternoon Owens made a number of controversial statements during an ESPN interview.

In December 2007 former Mariners outfielder Shane Monahan gave an interview with ESPN. com in which he stated that amphetamines and steroids were both rampant in the team's clubhouse in the late ' 90's.

At the Senior British Open Championship in 2010, Charles announced in an ESPN interview that he would retire from golf, stating that he was " 74 years old, traveling this world for 50 years, and it's time to slow down and spend more time on my farm in New Zealand with my family.

After the ceremonies, the two of them sat together for an ESPN interview on the podium, taking audience questions and gently ribbing each other, especially about the upper-deck home run Kirk Gibson hit in the 1984 World Series.

* In a 1996 commercial, an ESPN producer discusses a fictional trade between SportsCenter and the TV series Melrose Place, wherein Andrew Shue and Charley Steiner switch jobs ; the ad features Shue at the SportsCenter desk discussing a working interview with NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue then cuts to the Melrose Place set where Steiner is cleaning the pool and enthusiastically asks one of the female cast members if she wants to rub suntan lotion on his back

In an interview for the 1997 Main Event Final Table, Stu told ESPN TV commentator Gabe Kaplan that the 1980 WSOP was the first time he had ever played a Texas Hold ' em tournament.

In an interview with Pro Wrestling Report on 540 ESPN Radio, he stated " I'm a big Jay-Z fan " and that " The Blueprint " moniker was inspired by the album of the same name.

" The infamous incident was later recounted by Fisk on both ESPN Classic and a CNBC interview with Tim Russert on his show.

Reilly hosts ESPN ’ s Homecoming with Rick Reilly, an interview show, and he is a contributing essayist for ESPN SportsCenter and ABC Sports.

He is host of “ Homecoming ”, an interview program, also on ESPN, taped in the hometowns of featured guests.

The Anaheim ESPN Zone was the home of the final two years of the long-running interview program Up Close from 1999 to 2001 and the entire run of its short-lived replacement, Unscripted with Chris Connelly, from 2001 to 2002.

In a November interview with ESPN The Magazine, Joyner revealed that he had briefly used steroids.

They stated in an interview at ESPN Magazine's NEXT Party during Super Bowl XLIII that the album should be released in late 2009.

On February 16, 2011, ESPN. com reported that Cecil will interview with the Pittsburgh Steelers to be their next secondary coach.

During the week leading up to the game, Mitchell sat for a short ESPN interview conducted by Dan Patrick.

He participated in a 2004 interview on ESPN Classic's " Big Ticket " review of the 1982 Indy 500.