A Sea Of Red

Kenny Mayne is anchoring Sportscenter. I love it. He is one of the people that brought Sportscenter into the main stream. All of the guys now trying to come up with catch phrases are trying to imitate him, and it's good to see one of the guys who started it doing it again.

Frankly, Sportscenter's heydey was long before Kenny was hired from Seattle. But I agree that he was one of the best in his prime.

Sly has over 5000 posts...not in one day...that would be some kind of record or something

Give me Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman. I like Kenny and Stewart too though. SJ you probably don't remember Craig Kilborn as an anchor but he was one of the best as well.

I think it's safe to say that Stewart Scott Ruined Sportscenter and sports shows in general.

stewartt scott is one of the most annoying men on the planet.....

and that is my 2 cents on the matter

I like Stew ok but He does tend to get on your nerves sometimes...It's like ok we get it Stu. You're hip

Kenny Mayne is one funny dude! I loved him when he was doing SC all the time. Now he is regulated to doing feel good stories for all the big events. These are still hysterical, but you do not see him enough.

SCAR wrote:Give me Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman. I like Kenny and Stewart too though. SJ you probably don't remember Craig Kilborn as an anchor but he was one of the best as well.

I remember Kilborn. You underestimate me.

You are only 12 years old so I figured he was before your time

Me and my friends used to sit around and quote Sportscenter. We were cool.

After DP and KO...
...the best duo was Stu and Rich.

Stu used to be good.

Kenny Mayne seemed to work with everyone.

They need to do the Boys Are Back In Town thing again.

kilborn was the man! ....."push it, push it real good"

How can we even have a discussion of Sportcenter anchors without mentioning the man himself, Chris Berman! He set the standard with his famous nicknames like Carlos In Delgado Da Vida, Chris Hammond Cheese, and my personal favorite Joey Cask of Amalfatano. Not to mention rumblinfumblinstumblin and backbackbackbackback. He was one of a kind.

Berman sucks so bad now that people try to forget he even exists.

SuperJon wrote:Berman sucks so bad now that people try to forget he even exists.

what'd he do - try to steal a ham sandwich from ya or something?

It certainly looks like more than a ham sandwich.

He's just way too annoying.

SuperJon wrote:It certainly looks like more than a ham sandwich.

He's just way too annoying.

I agree. I think that his schtick has really gotten old, something that I noticed back in 2003 when he was doing the PBP of a Mets game and started to recite the names of the offensive linemen from the '69 NY Jets. Dude, leave the football game for football.

His "backbackback" thing is okay... until you watch him call a homerun derby. After the 35th time, it'll really get on your nerves.

And half the time he sounds like he needs a cough drop.


I used to love Sportscenter, during the Kilborn / Kenny Mayne / Olbermann days, before Dan Patrick became a celebrity in his own right (the guy is such a narcissist) and Stu Scott was encouraged (rather, stopped from being discouraged) to act hip.

And if you ask me what moment signified the death of ESPN? Well, media day when the Ravens played the Giants in the Super Bowl (2002, I think?). Ray Lewis was being asked questions about being at a Super Bowl, a year after being at a Super Bowl party where someone got killed (and he was fined by the league $500,000 for obstruction of justice). After his Q&A session was up, Stuart Scott grabbed him and said "listen, just f*** 'em" (referring to the rest of the media).

See, at that moment it represented the point where ESPN stopped being a news organization and just started being a celebrity entertainment organization. You can't depend on them for news anymore (outside of scores), they're just trying to be cool. ESPN is to sports is what MTV is to music.

(while I'm at it, here are a few other things that grind my gears: milking off the success of PTI and Around the Horn, Outside the Lines topics that deal with whether the three-point line is too close, expanding sportscenter to 90 minutes -- so that the lead story will be analyzed for 10 minutes and have three different people give commentaries, while I'm waiting for baskeball highlights, getting rid of David Aldridge for style-over-substance Stephen A. Smith, the shows Beg, Borrow or Deal and Dream Job, et cetera.)

i can't stand chris berman