Welcome to the inaugural episode of this was Sports Center, a new show that I'm thrilled to bring to the Disney family of platforms.

Over the next six weeks, I'm going to be sitting down one by one in this first of

hopefully many seasons.

I'm going to be sitting down with some old friends of mine from back in the Sports

Center day and just stroll down memory lane and recall the days of Sports Center when I

used to do them.

And maybe when you were younger or in a

different spot in your life, getting ready to go to school, sitting in college, watching

Sports Center, and just enjoying what we were fortunate enough to put on camera for all of you.

And the first guest of this was Sports Center here in his beautiful facility

in Connecticut is the person who I would not have wanted to start this episode or this series

without. He is a guy from back in the day that was there for me and he still is Dan Patrick. How are you,

DP? Good to see you, sir. Ready to open up the scrapbook here.

Yeah, that's what it is.

So let's start with your first day at Sports Center.

Well, 1989, right?

Is that what it was?

Yeah, I had left CNN and I didn't have an agent. I didn't know what I was doing in the business.

Right. But I knew ESPN was where I wanted to be. And I went to CNN. I did headline sports.

And then I was a reporter, actually replaced Keith Oberman in New York covering sports, Baltimore, Boston, Philly, New York, D.C. And my contract was running out. And I asked for

$60,000. I was making 50. And my boss, the legendary Bill McPhail, who started CBS Sports,

he came back at 55. And I thought, well, then he doesn't want me. I didn't know

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