Hannah Storm To Compete Against Skip Bayless, Will Win Handily

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Hannah Storm, Coming To An ESPN Morning Show Near You
Published 5/11/2008 by One More Dying Quail (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
(posted by One More Dying Quail) Two thoughts immediately ran through my head after seeing this story about Hannah Storm (via The Big Lead's Patrick Imig): 1) Why didn't ESPN have a morning SportsCenter already? You could probably argue that not enough happens overnight to create an entirely new show the next day, but local TV stations don't just rerun the 11 o'clock news the following morning, do they? 2) A story from a few years ago talked about how Bill Belichick watches SportsCenter like six times, from the late show ...

Hannah Storm To Head Revamped SportsCenter
Published 5/11/2008 by PUNTE at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... , via THE BIG LEAD (which is a fine site of which I personally have no issue): The formal announcement is expected to come Tuesday morning in New York City at ESPN’s upfront presentation — the annual May event in which giddy television executives unveil to advertisers its future programming plans. Two additional extended SportsCenters are expected to follow the Storm-fronted show. “We’re declining comment,” said ESPN spokesperson Mike Soltys on Saturday. Interestingly, the revamped SportsCenters will compete against the ESPN2 morning block of Mike & Mike In the Morning ...