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 ...

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 ...

Quick Note: SportsCenter Observations, July 7
downswinging.com 7/8/2009 — I saw two funny things on SportsCenter today, wanted to mention them, and didn’t know where, so they’re going here. 1. They did a Not Top 10 just for the Mets. I love Not Top 10s, but a one-team special is awesome, as long as it’s not the Red Sox. I love how the more and ...

A Q&A With ESPN’s Josh Elliott
thebiglead.com 6/19/2009 — At last weekend’s Blogs with Balls shindig , we cornered Sportscenter anchor Josh Elliott, and after some cajoling, convinced him to do an interview with this site. Outside of his lust for all the LA sports teams, he’s a pretty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LeBron and Kobe Puppets Rock SportsCenter Theme
terezowens.com 6/1/2009 — Well now that’s interesting

Mark Jackson's view: Dwight Howard can't do it by himself — L.A. Times - Basketball 6/7/2009
Jackson, a former NBA star and now a game analyst for ABC and ESPN, says the Orlando Magic needs its perimeter players to make shots. > Mark Jackson played ...

Thankfully, this doctor is still in — L.A. Times - Basketball 6/8/2009
The fact Jack Ramsay agreed to be part of the three-man ESPN radio booth for the NBA Finals is good news for all of us. > Hubie Brown used knives, forks and ...

Jalen Rose's viewpoint: Mickael Pietrus needs to step up defensively — L.A. Times - Basketball 6/9/2009
The ESPN analyst and former player says it is asking too much of Orlando's Hedo Turkoglu to keep defending Kobe Bryant. > Jalen Rose played for the 2000 ...

A TNT charge for NBA TV — L.A. Times - Basketball 6/11/2009
Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson appear on NBA TV before and after Lakers-Magic games. > Charles Barkley spotted an ABC/ESPN staffer and ...