7.5
30 for 30
2009
SportsCentury
9.030m19995 seasons
Documentary
SportsCentury is an ESPN biography program that reviews the people and athletic events that defined sports in North America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1999, ESPN counted down the Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century, selected from North American athletes and voted on by a panel of sports journalists and observers, premiering a new biography highlighting each top athlete every week throughout the year. The episodes for the top two athletes, Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth, appeared on a special combined edition broadcast on Christmas Day on ABC. The top two names were announced in no particular order, and the final positioning was announced at the conclusion of the two episodes. An additional list of numbers 51-100 were announced on the ESPN SportsCentury website. Themed specials such as Greatest Games, Greatest Coaches, Greatest Dynasties, and Most Influential Individuals were premiered throughout the year, as well as six SportsCenter of the Decade programs. After the initial run was complete, the episodes were rerun at various times on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Classic. The original plan for the series was to expand to include #51-#100. Ultimately, the series featured nearly every athlete from #51-#100, and numerous other personalities, especially those who were recently deceased, or notable for more recent accomplishments.
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1900-49
1999-01-21 · 30m
The SportsCentury begins with this two-hour reflection of the major sports events that endeared themselves to the American conscience in the first half of the 20th Century. Dave Anderson, Dick Schaap, and Curt Gowdy sit around newspaper offices as the ""hosts"" in this newsreel-type retrospective.
No. 50 -- Chris Evert
1999-01-22 · 30m
No. 49 -- O.J. Simpson
1999-01-29 · 30m
No. 48 -- Pete Sampras
1999-02-05 · 30m
No. 47 -- Edwin Moses
1999-02-12 · 30m
No. 46 -- Eric Heiden
1999-02-19 · 30m
No. 45 -- Bill Tilden
1999-02-26 · 30m
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1950s
1999-03-09 · 30m
No. 44 -- Bobby Jones
1999-03-12 · 30m
No. 43 -- Julius Erving
1999-03-19 · 30m
No. 42 -- Sandy Koufax
1999-04-02 · 30m
No. 41 -- Wilma Rudolph
1999-04-09 · 30m
No. 40 -- Lawrence Taylor
1999-04-16 · 30m
No. 39 -- Walter Payton
1999-04-23 · 30m
No. 38 -- Ben Hogan
1999-04-30 · 30m
No. 37 -- Mickey Mantle
1999-05-07 · 30m
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1960s
1999-05-21 · 30m
No. 36 -- Oscar Robertson
1999-05-14 · 30m
The Greatest Coaches of the Century
1999-05-22 · 30m
No. 35 -- Secretariat
1999-05-21 · 30m
Most Influential People in Sports
1999-05-23 · 30m
Counts down the ten non-athletes who left the greatest impact on the sports world in the 20th Century. Profiles include: Walter O'Malley, Branch Rickey, Pette Rozelle, David Stern, Roone Arledge, and Marvin Miller.
Greatest Dynasties
1999-05-30 · 30m
The teams that dominated their sport–the New York Yankees, Boston Celtics, Montréal Canadiens, UCLA Bruins, Notre Dame Fighting Irish–are profiled. So are the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Bulls, and San Francisco 49ers.
No. 34 -- Lou Gehrig
1999-05-28 · 30m
No. 33 -- Mark Spitz
1999-06-04 · 30m
Greatest Games
1999-06-05 · 30m
No. 32 -- Johnny Unitas
1999-06-11 · 30m
No. 31 -- Bobby Orr
1999-06-18 · 30m
No. 30 -- Larry Bird
1999-06-25 · 30m
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1970s
1999-07-09 · 30m
No. 29 -- Arnold Palmer
1999-07-02 · 30m
No. 28 -- Red Grange
1999-07-09 · 30m
No. 27 -- Jerry Rice
1999-07-16 · 30m
No. 26 -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1999-07-23 · 30m
No. 25 -- Joe Montana
1999-07-30 · 30m
No. 24 -- Sugar Ray Robinson
1999-07-30 · 30m
No. 23 -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1999-08-06 · 30m
No. 22 -- Joe DiMaggio
1999-08-20 · 30m
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1980s
1999-09-17 · 30m
No. 21 -- Gordie Howe
1999-09-03 · 30m
No. 20 -- Ty Cobb
1999-09-17 · 30m
No. 19 -- Martina Navratilova
1999-09-24 · 30m
No. 18 -- Bill Russell
1999-10-01 · 30m
No. 17 -- Magic Johnson
1999-10-08 · 30m
No. 16 -- Ted Williams
1999-10-08 · 30m
No. 15 -- Jackie Robinson
1999-10-15 · 30m
No. 14 -- Hank Aaron
1999-10-29 · 30m
No. 13 -- Wilt Chamberlain
1999-10-29 · 30m
No. 12 -- Carl Lewis
1999-11-05 · 30m
No. 11 -- Joe Louis
1999-11-19 · 30m
No. 10 -- Babe Didrikson
1999-12-03 · 30m
No. 9 -- Jack Nicklaus
1999-12-03 · 30m
No. 8 -- Willie Mays
1999-12-10 · 30m
No. 7 -- Jim Thorpe
1999-12-10 · 30m
No. 6 -- Jesse Owens
1999-12-17 · 30m
No. 5 -- Wayne Gretzky
1999-12-17 · 30m
No. 4 -- Jim Brown
1999-12-24 · 30m
No. 3 -- Muhammad Ali
1999-12-24 · 30m
No. 2 -- Babe Ruth
1999-12-26 · 30m
No. 1 -- Michael Jordan
1999-12-26 · 30m
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1990s
2000-03-26 · 30m
Yogi Berra
2003-10-13 · 30m
Derek Jeter
2003-10-17 · 30m
Brian Piccolo
2001-11-02 · 30m
A profile of the late Brian Piccolo, the 1964 ACC Player of the Year at Wake Forest and later a member of the Chicago Bears, where he formed a friendship with Gale Sayers that was depicted in the 1971 film “Brian's Song.” Piccolo died of cancer in 1970.
Brian Piccolo
2001-11-02 · 30m
Casey Stengel
2000-10-03 · 30m
No. 50 - Chris Evert
1999-01-22 · 30m
Joe DiMaggio
2000-07-10 · 30m
Willie Mays
2000-07-25 · 30m
Billy Martin
2000-08-07 · 30m
Don Larsen
2000-10-23 · 30m
