When playful SportsCenter anchor banter turns awkward
Pleasant banter between anchors is a trademark of any newscast outro. You know, that time when the microphones are shut off and the lights are slowly dimmed and you see the two anchors laughing or pretending to talk with one another. With the three hour shifts of live SportsCenters, the anchors are often forced to have this sort of interplay on the air as the show transitions from ending one SportsCenter to beginning another. Usually this is just blase chatter about the day's top stories or something amusing from the SC Top 10.
Before Tuesday's 4 PM ET SportsCenter on ESPNEWS, we got something much more stimulating. ESPNEWS anchor Steve Weissman joked with co-anchor Sage Steele that she was flirting with Patriots WR Wes Welker during an in-studio interview while he was going through the ESPN Car Wash. Judging by Steele's reaction - gasping "I'm married" and nervously looking around the studio like Weissman may also have an ax under his side of the desk - it probably didn't go over as well as expected. Interestingly enough, both Weissman and Steele had tweeted earlier in the day looking forward to the opportunity to host SportsCenter together. Weissman joined ESPNEWS in 2010 while Steele is one of ESPN's best on-air personalities. You have to give her major props for making it through the rest of the segment without any more awkwardness taking place...
Your history on the Big Ten deal in 2006 is a little off. ESPN low-balled the Big 10 and told the conference to take it or leave it. Delaney accepted the challenge and that laid the foundation to launch BTN.
what happens to Notre Dame if they join the Big Ten in regards to their contract with NBC?
Away games get shown on the ESPN family of networks and BTN. If they join the Big East, away games will be shown on the ESPN family of networks alone. NBC would retain rights to home games and any neutral site games through 2015 either way.
You've connected a lot of dots here. It's pretty clear that they wear the pants when it comes to revenue, realignment, and promotion.
It's just funny to see them not even acknowledge the fact that they're a big part of this.
The Big Ten is looking at a major payday if they don't enter into some asinine extension with ESPN ahead of the expiration of their deal.
