List of Sports Center Segments and Specials - Vignettes

Vignettes

• SportsCentury, which later became a documentary series on ESPN Classic, began as a multimedia series in 1998. These included one-minute sponsored vignettes tying significant sports events to the day they occurred. This ran through December 31, 1999.
• SportsCenter In 2004, ESPN contributed to the ESPN25 project by counting down the 100 most significant sports events and news stories of the previous 25 years.
• In 2007, ESPN aired "Ultimate NASCAR", a series of one-minute features of significant events in the history of NASCAR. It celebrated the return of coverage rights to the network. These vignettes re-aired through July 29, 2007, when ESPN aired the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. That race was also the network's first NASCAR Sprint Cup telecast since the Atlanta fall race in November 2000 (when the Sprint Cup Series was then known as the Winston Cup Series).
• "After Jackie" was a series of vignettes that honored the role sports has played in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. These one-minute pieces premiered on March 25, 2007 and aired until April 15, 2007, the exact 60th anniversary of the debut of Jackie Robinson in Major League Baseball. This series also led up to the Jackie Robinson commemorative baseball game that night between the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers. Between April 3-4, 2007, the series was sponsored by Suzuki.
• At the end of the network's final SportsCenter of 1999 (December 31, 1999), ESPN played a special seven-minute video called Images of the Century (commonly referred to on various video sites as "ESPN SportsCentury" or similar variants) that recalled some of the most memorable images, plays, athletes, and calls of the previous century of sports. The song used for the video was Dream On by Aerosmith. (The "SportsCentury" video can be viewed here.)
• "Remembering the House that Ruth Built" was a series of vignettes featuring significant events in the history of Yankee Stadium, the home of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. The 2008 season was also the ballclub's last at Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923. These 30-second pieces, narrated by Baseball Tonight host and SportsCenter anchor Karl Ravech, originally aired on the ESPN family of networks in March 2008. This series was sponsored by Bank of America.