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''SC'', which [[Long Runners|celebrated its 30,000th episode in 2007]], is a sports highlight and analysis show that can be seen at almost all hours of the day on ESPN. Someone who wakes up at 7 a.m. can flip on the TV and watch ''SportsCenter'' until he leaves for work at 8:30. When he comes home at 5 p.m., he can watch the primetime version of ''SportsCenter''. When he goes to bed at 11 p.m., he can watch the late-night version, and then the edition from [[Los Angeles]] updated to catch the West Coast scores at 2 a.m. And since 2008 he has been able to watch it when he's home sick on a weekday all the way to 2 p.m.
What started as a simple, low-budget highlight show has, like its parent network, metastasized into a kind of pop culture leviathan that both dominates and frequently influences the sports world it covers.
''SportsCenter'' truly rocketed to national prominence in the early 1990s, when the 11 p.m. broadcast was anchored by Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann. (Yes, ''[[He Also Did|that]]'' [[Countdown with Keith Olbermann|Keith Olbermann]]. Before he became MSNBC's preeminent liberal scold, he was a sportscaster, and a damned good--and hilarious--one, too.) The two were smart, witty and cultured and they introduced a brand of cutting humor to the broadcast that made it must-see TV. Some of the scenes in ''[[Sports Night]]'' are references to this--including the "left off the letter 's' in 'bulging disk'" bit. Of course, on ''[[Sports Center]]'', nobody caught it before airing...
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* [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]] as stated above, although over time this seems to have disappeared.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Ever since ESPN and the NHL parted ways, hockey highlights have now become few and far between. According to Deadspin's weekly "Bristolmetrics" article, which breaks down the show's coverage of sports and athletes in terms of time spent on a subject, the NHL averages only 15-20 minutes of highlights ''per week'' during its season.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Chris Berman is the gold standard for the network, but the anchors have mostly ditched catch phrases for these, although some are actually pretty damn clever. Robert Flores has a [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] knack concerning these ("[[Jay
* [[Long Runner]]: And how.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Chris Berman's [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] Nicknames for players. One lowlight: Joseph "Live and Let" Addai.
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