ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture-Morphing Years of Highlights

by Charles Hirshberg and AshleyNicole

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140133704X
• ISBN13: 9781401337049
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: ESPN Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

I read this on a 2-hour flight to miami. Made the flight seem like 20 minutes. Very good read!

Let's Go to the Videotape

It's hard to imagine ESPN starting off way back when as a small cable operation that appeared not to have a future some 25 years later. And yet ESPN has forever influenced and changed sports broadcasting. This book takes a look back at some of the highlights of those 25 years, along with anecdotes from some of sports' greatest moments and ESPN anchors. Heck with the foreword by Chris Berman, what more could you ask for? There's even a brief history of how sports has been reported since the proverbial "beginning of time." And throughout the book are 'best of" lists: the best draft pics, the best sports mascots, best venues to watch a sports event, even ESPN's choices for the greatest athletes of the last 25 years, along with numerous others. The book helps capture what those crazy early days of ESPN were like, along with an idea of what things are like around there nowadays. I remember watching some of the "early days" of ESPN up to the present. It's amazing to think ESPN has now become an institution. This book is not an "in depth" history of ESPN, there are other books for that. But it is an enjoyable, easily read book that details the ESPN experience and how that experience has changed us all. And yes points off on the included DVD, it's a shame some of the classic SportsCenter commericals like the Y2K aren't on here.

Dare I say, en fuego.....

I'll admit, I paid the $25 on this book mainly for the DVD which I must say is stellar. The commercial featuring Keith Olbermann singing "Darrryllll" is downright hilarious. The DVD also features the famed "Around The World" and Y2K commercials as well, I believe there are 30 commercials in all if I am correct. As for the book, I'll admit I haven't read much of it yet however the chapter on how Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick invented the catch-phrase was very good. If you are a fan of ESPN or enjoy the "This Is Sportscenter" commercials, this is a must-have.

an Institution like MTV

ESPN is to Sports Highlights like what MTV is to Music Video no matter how we feel overall. there are things about Espn like MTV from it's Hey day past that I will always dig,but I also have kinda tired of there commericalism ways that has watered down there network over time. it's had It's Highs & Lows over the years but regardless of where you stand with it you always watch it.