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06-04-2026, 08:46 PM
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/rich-eisen-this-was-sportscenter-stories-from-set-espn-1236766296/
Premiering Friday as part of Disney+’s “Throwback Summer” campaign, former SportsCenter anchor Eisen’s new podcast will take fans of the iconic sports news show during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Season 1 will consist of six episodes and feature guests Dan Patrick, Mike Greenberg, Linda Cohn, Chris Fowler and Craig Kilborn. “The moment my daily Rich Eisen Show reunited me with ESPN, I knew I had to create this show,” said Eisen, who co-anchored SportsCenter from 1996 to 2003. “I’ve lost track of the number of times people have come up to me over the years to say how I either helped put them on a school bus in the morning or stayed up procrastinating late-night in college thanks to SportsCenter. For those folks, I’m about to inject, as Stuart Scott might call it, straight-butter nostalgia into their veins.”
Premiering Friday as part of Disney+’s “Throwback Summer” campaign, former SportsCenter anchor Eisen’s new podcast will take fans of the iconic sports news show during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Season 1 will consist of six episodes and feature guests Dan Patrick, Mike Greenberg, Linda Cohn, Chris Fowler and Craig Kilborn. “The moment my daily Rich Eisen Show reunited me with ESPN, I knew I had to create this show,” said Eisen, who co-anchored SportsCenter from 1996 to 2003. “I’ve lost track of the number of times people have come up to me over the years to say how I either helped put them on a school bus in the morning or stayed up procrastinating late-night in college thanks to SportsCenter. For those folks, I’m about to inject, as Stuart Scott might call it, straight-butter nostalgia into their veins.”