How Did Green Day Become The SportsCenter House Band? [Media Meltdowns]
deadspin.com 6/8/2009 — SportsCenter doesn't often use popular music as background for their various clip packages, but if you watch as much of the show as I do, you may have noticed that only one band ever seems to make the cut. Seriously, does someone at ESPN owe Green ...

SportsCenter and L.A.- Is It Working?
sportsmediajournal.com 6/3/2009 — I’m still trying to figure out why ESPN decided to move it’s late night edition of SportsCenter to Los Angeles. In the two months or so since the move, nothing on the show has really changed. It has the same format, same look. The only references to their presence in Los Angeles ...

SportsCenter In L.A.- From ESPN
sportsmediajournal.com 6/5/2009 — SMJ’s Ray Frager forwarded me an e-mail sent to him from ESPN in response to my post earlier this week questioning ESPN’s decision to produce the late night SportsCenter from Los Angeles. Here is ESPN’s response: Why was the decision made to open a west coast facility? · To ...

Yes, The Jonas Brothers Were On SportsCenter Last Night [Media Meltdowns]
deadspin.com 6/7/2009 — Earlier this week, Sports Media Journal questioned the purpose of hosting SportsCenter in Los Angeles, prompting ESPN flacks to defend the move, in part, by citing "additional access to sports and entertainment celebrities." Like the Jonas Brothers! ...

Last Call: Being There
therookiesblog.com 7/24/2009 — (Yup, this is the video Simmons is always talking about.) Shortly after Michael Jackson’s death, there was an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal based on the conceit that Jackson was the last true celebrity, the last one who gained his immense fame before the age of 24-hour TV and ...

The Morning Bowl (June 24th): Old SportsCenter Commercials Edition
sportressofblogitude.com 6/24/2009 — • Nostalgia alert! Taking a look back at the Top 10 SportsCenter commercials from the 90s. [Uncoached] • Tragic, terrible news. Aplington-Parkersburg High School football coach Ed Thomas was shot and killed in the weight room of the high school. The inspirational story of how he kept his team ...

Sportscenter Clearly Understands its Audience
bleachernation.com 6/6/2009 — As I watch Sportscenter this morning to catch my Cubs highlights, among other things, what do I see? Surely my eyes betray me. That can’t possibly be the Jonas Brothers (I hope you hell you just said “who?”). Who exactly do the producers of Sportscenter think is watching ...

ESPN's 30th Anniversary SportsCenter Show
fangsbites.com 8/28/2009 — Since I'm at the ESPN World Headquarters in Bristol, CT, I'll give them some love while I'm monitoring the Monday Night Football/NFL Studio Shows session at the ESPN Media Workshop. Here's a release on the 30th Anniversary SportsCenter edition that will air the first week of September. While I ...

Snoop on Sportscenter
mrfactoidssportsworld.blogspot.com 8/13/2009 — Mr. Factoid's Sports World is a daily sports blog dedicated to bringing sports lovers together to discuss all things sports. The site will feature updated news, stories, videos, ladies, and opinions. Plus, we have up-to-date betting lines available for our risk takers out there. Around here, I ...

Sportscenter Brett Favre Commercial
blitzcorner.com 8/26/2009 — ESPN's "This is SportsCenter" commercials are always amusing, but I particularly like the new one, which combines the usual SportsCenter anchors and mascots but makes Brett Favre the butt of the joke. Video below.s

Rodriguez's 5-hitter gets Astros by Bucs (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 7/8/2009
Wandy Rodriguez pitched a five-hitter and tied a career high by striking out 11, leading the Houston Astros over the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-0 Wednesday. The 30-year-old Rodriguez threw his second career complete game, having shut out the New York ...

Torre OK with never seeing Yankee Stadium again — Newsday.com - Mets 7/9/2009
Even though he now works in Los Angeles, Joe Torre still has a house in Westchester. So in the last year he has driven past the Yankees Stadiums, old and new, and is well aware the old one won't be around much longer.

Mets' Cora thinks highly of ex-teammate Ramirez — Newsday.com - Mets 7/9/2009
When Mets shortstop Alex Cora was a utility man for the Red Sox, Manny Ramirez was one of Boston's most controversial figures, often engaging in antics on and off the field that angered fans and eventually management.

Delgado progresses in rehab, will run next week — Newsday.com - Mets 7/9/2009
Despite the Mets' insistence that Carlos Delgado isn't expected back much earlier than Aug. 15, he continued to show progress from hip surgery Wednesday by taking ground balls at first. Delgado only began hitting soft-toss pitches this week and looked ...

Absent Players Leave Wright Vulnerable in Mets’ Lineup — NYT > Baseball 7/9/2009
David Wright’s batting average dropped 23 points in the first six games of the month, to .322.