To Promote New SportsCenter Schedule, ESPN Should Do A 24-Hour Show

The big ESPN news yesterday actually had to do with ESPNews. The network is being rebranded, a decision that was announced on Monday in the framework of an “expanding” SportsCenter.

The particulars, via ESPN release, include news that there will be just one hour in the day without SportsCenter (Midnight-1a.m. eastern) with live shows from 9 a.m.-2 a.m. every weekday.

The new afternoon SC shows will move to ESPNews and will include more local content and interactivity with the viewers.

In other words, the 30-minute digestible highlight package that ESPNews ran on a constant loop during the day will be replaced by a live show that will instead highlight (and promote) ESPN’s growing list of local websites. The new schedule will also reward the select few who are watching the same packaged and repackaged sports highlights at three in the afternoon by sharing their Tweets and Facebook comments.

We’re getting closer and closer to ESP(CN)N. If Rick Sanchez starts hosting SportsCenter, we’re all doomed.

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Call of the Day: “Happy Birthday Baby! That’s in the Bullpen.”

Well who saw this coming? Okay, fine, the part where Jason Heyward belted a home run to deep right center field on his 21st birthday…EVERYONE saw coming.

But Chip Caray and Joe Simpson combining for Call of the Day? Nobody had that.

If the video gets popped, you can watch the MLB.com version here.

“And he unloads. Deep toward right…Happy Birthday baby! That’s in the bullpen.”

“Light the candles…”

“Wow.”

“…because that one was torched.”

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Call of the Day: Chicharito’s Man Utd Goal “Bundled…Con La Cara”

There were a lot of great plays over the weekend, but nothing more hilarious than the first competitive goal for new Manchester United star Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez.

Watch the two videos below — in English and then Spanish — as Chicharito scored a goal in Man Utd’s Community Shield victory over Chelsea by re-directing a cross into the corner of the net …with his face.

The calls are totally different, with the English side suggesting Chicharito “bundled” the ball into the net while the Spanish side seemed to have an audible “aye aye aye” while the video showed the kick bounce off his face. Classic.