The Los Angeles office, from which the late-night edition of SportsCenter is now broadcast, opened at L. A. Live in early 2009.

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.

McAlester is the home of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, site of an " inside the walls " prison rodeo from which ESPN's SportsCenter once broadcast.

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.

In 1994, ESPN began the This is SportsCenter ad campaign to promote the show.

They also began broadcasting SportsCenter Minute, which is a web-streaming one-minute SportsCenter update seen exclusively on ESPN. com.

Portions of ESPN's broadcast, including the early parts of the Monday final round, were presented as SportsCenter, specifically " SportsCenter at the U. S. Open " which is similar to segments within the show with nightly highlights and analysis that originate from the event locations, much like " SportsCenter at the Super Bowl " and " SportsCenter at the World Series ", etc.

The fictional Sports Night is a sports news program in the style of ESPN's SportsCenter.

The show is said to be a semi-fictional account of the SportsCenter team of Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, with Rydell representing Olbermann and McCall representing Patrick.

He can be seen at Citi Field during Mets home games, has appeared in several commercials as part of ESPN's This is SportsCenter campaign, and has been elected into the Mascot Hall of Fame .. On April 30, 2012, Forbes Magazine listed Mr. Met as the # 1 mascot in all of sports.

In a 2003 This is SportsCenter ad, when the show ends, everyone rushes out of the studio, creating a massive traffic jam.

In 2009, Mr. Met appeared in another This is SportsCenter ad, which Mr. Met is talking with Stuart Scott at a microwave.

Hannah Storm ( born Hannah Storen June 13, 1962 ) is an American television sports journalist, serving as co-anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Sunday morning with Bob Ley, and Monday-Thursday mornings with Kevin Negandhi.

An ESPN Radio SportsCenter update is inserted at 6: 40.

The show is presented similarly to ESPN's own SportsCenter, featuring scores, highlights, and analysis of every game of the week in the NFL.

The highlights on the current incarnation of NFL Primetime tend to be more story driven, emphasizing key player performances or game storylines as opposed to a normal recap that is found on SportsCenter.

She has also been featured in many of the show's comical This is SportsCenter commercials.

This is SportsCenter is the name of a series of comical television commercials run by ESPN to promote their SportsCenter sports news show.

* SportsCenter: The flagship program of ESPN, a daily sports news program delivering the latest sports news and highlights

* SportsCenter, an American daily sports news television show

* Once a year, the sports news show SportsCenter has a daily segment called " My Wish " for a week, in which they showcase sports-related wishes for sick children made possible with the help of Make-A-Wish ( see the list of SportsCenter segments and specials ).

By the 2011 season, TWIBs ratings declined as the result of such shows as ESPN's Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, which showed baseball highlights daily.

* George Smith ( sports reporter ), SportsCenter reporter

Over the summer of 2005, SportsCenter premiered a segment called " 50 States in 50 Days ", where a different SportsCenter anchor traveled to a different state every day to discover the sports, sports history, and athletes of the state.

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.

Themes in the United States that have become associated with a sport include Johnny Pearson's " Heavy Action " ( used for many years as an intro to Monday Night Football ), " Roundball Rock " ( composed by John Tesh as the theme for the NBA on NBC during the 1990s and early 2000s ), " Bugler's Dream " ( used in ABC and NBC's coverage of the Olympics ) and the theme to ESPN's nightly sports highlight show, SportsCenter.

In her book, Cohn recounts her passion for sports and her experiences working on ESPN's popular sports show SportsCenter.

Many commercials in the series have derived their humor from parodying conventional professional sports practices, by applying them to working for SportsCenter:

* A 2007 ad features how a SportsCenter video game is made ( this ad is a take on the sports video game craze ).

For his efforts, Hall won a one-year contract to be an anchor on ESPN's popular sports news program SportsCenter, and a new Mazda3.

In an effort to expand coverage of West Coast sports, ESPN began broadcasting the 1 AM ET ( 10 PM PT ) edition of SportsCenter from the studio on April 6, 2009.

The network was formerly simulcast on ESPN during coverage of major breaking sports news before the expansion of SportsCenter in daytime on ESPN in 2008, and a highlights rundown with the network's overnight anchor is one of the segments on ABC's early morning newscast, America This Morning.

Starting in August 2010, SportsCenter is shown on ESPNEWS when the program is unable to be aired on ESPN or ESPN2 due to programming conflicts, and during the afternoon hours while both networks show sports talk programming.

Winter X Games VIII in 2004 was the first time that an X Games event was televised live and also had coverage by ESPN's flagship news program, SportsCenter.

It was also used as an early theme tune for ESPN's SportsCenter and ABS-CBN's news program TV Patrol.

Before the popularization of the internet, the " HLN SportsTicker " was the first available method of getting this information in real time rather than waiting for the local news, morning newspapers or ESPN SportsCenter.

The premise of Dream Job was to find a new anchor for ESPN's popular sports news program, SportsCenter.

In 1999, FSN's nightly sports news show-Fox Sports News and what was later renamed the National Sports Report-was losing ratings ground to ESPN's SportsCenter.

Among Eisen's notable achievements while at ESPN, was breaking the news of St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire's retirement from baseball in 2001 on SportsCenter.

No stranger to national television, Hey Reb has also appeared in two memorable ESPN SportsCenter commercials.

From the time of the show's expansion in July 2005 until August 2009, Kornheiser and Wilbon would then give their recommendations for television viewing for the night as the last discussion segment of the show before SportsCenter.

* A 2007 ad has Steve Levy getting suspended by Vince Doria because he said the F-word during a SportsCenter taping ( this spot was never aired on the ESPN family of networks because it was deemed too inappropriate for television ).

The event received coverate on various television programs including NBC's The Tonight Show, ESPN's Pardon the Interruption and SportsCenter, and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

A graduate of Steubenville Catholic Central High School in Steubenville, OH, and Heidelberg College ( where he majored in Communications and Theater Arts ), his television duties include the Emmy winning SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight.

" Rock N Roll " is used in the second season of teen drama television series Dawson's Creek ( episode 16 ) and " We Are Tomorrow " was used on ESPN's SportsCenter in 2003.