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Drawing from his early career experience on local radio, Harris has built his reputation on goofy catch phrases and voice work.

Hired in just a month after the network was launched, Berman has been there from the beginning and shaped many of the broadcast elements that have made the program the juggernaut it is today. He was one of the originals who struck a unique balance of hard journalism, personality and humor. Yes his shtick can feel tired and excessively loud at times, but it's hard to imagine ESPN without it.

Kilborn hosted the late broadcast of the show and coined a number of goofy catchphrases…and then he left.

What's to Like: Kilborn just hasn't resonated with the public in any real way since ditching ESPN for what he hoped would be green pastures. His smarmy fratboy charms really worked well on a fratboy sports network. Filling in at other positions as a broadcaster and writer, Buccigross took over the afternoon shift of SportsCenter in What's to Like: A funny guy who loves and knows hockey on SportsCenter.

The Skinny: Kolber graduated from the University of Miami in and worked for local network affiliates in West Palm Beach, Greenwich, Irving and Miami before landing with the worldwide leader. The Skinny: Wingo actually grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, so adjusting to life in Bristol probably wasn't much of an adjustment at all. Before making his way back to CT, Wingo attended Baylor University and got that coveted degree in communications in Although, that was back when a college education meant more than a 50k mountain of debt.

What's to Like: What's not to like? What's to Like: The man. The myth. Obviously his passion is for radio, but his presence on SportsCenter is always a more than welcome addition. The Skinny: The first two decades of Olbermann's career were spent in sports.

Olbermann eventually left the network in favor of publicly trading venom with Bill O'Reilly. What's to Like: Well…I'm not sure how much there is to like about Olbermann these days. His combative and condescending manner has gotten him canned twice in the last year. But, much like Craig Kilborn, Olbermann's shtick worked well on ESPN and he remains one of the most popular anchors in the network's history. Name: Stuart "Boo Yah! He worked for the student-run radio station in college and went on to work as a sports reporter for local network affiliates in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida before being hired by ESPN.

What's to Like: Maybe more than anyone else on this list, Scott has his share of detractors. I've never understood what the problem is though—I love Stuart Scott and I think he's funny, upbeat and reliable in whatever work he does for the network.

She got her start as a sports anchor on AM radio after college and made history when ABC hired her to be the first woman to be hired as a full-time sports anchor on national radio in Obviously ESPN took notice because she was hired by the network in What's to Like: Linda Cohn is just legit.

She's a legit journalist, a legit sports fan and one of ESPN's most legit talents—and not just among the women, among the men as well. Oh, and how about the fact that she played on the boy's hockey team in high school? After stints with local affiliates, he was hired by ESPN in and has been there ever since. Mayne splits his time between SportsCenter and other hosting duties and more comedic endeavors like Kenny Mayne's Wilder World of Sports.

That being said, I think Mayne is the funniest man in sports and it's not even close. What's to Like: Eisen is just a really likable guy and is pretty much the only reason I'll ever tune into the NFL Network for anything besides a football game. He was a track and field athlete at the University of Missouri before graduating and moving on to local network affiliates in Oklahoma and Arizona. What's to Like: John Andersons don't grow on trees—he's a talented anchor and television host and he's absolutely hilarious.

He's got natural comedic timing and is a pretty decent actor too. There's a reason he's featured in so many "This is SportsCenter" commercials. He worked for a few local radio stations before being hired by CNN as a sports reporter in First with Keith Olberman and later with Rich Eisen, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Every duo needs to have one half complete anchored in reality and Patrick can be that anchor without dragging anything down. He was hired by ESPN in late and I think he's got potential to be one of the network's biggest stars or get fired for saying something offensive. Berman, for all his shtick, is a novelty at ESPN. He arrived at the network a month after it launched and has been a mainstay since. Fired by the Detroit Pistons, the garrulous and generous Vitale was out of coaching in December, His heart was in coaching.

E ncouraged by his wife to try television, Vitale did and the rest is history. The game, the network and Dickie V started intersecting prosperously. His name and hoops were and are inextricable. The most entertaining for my money was hosted by Roy Firestone, a gripping interviewer who conducted thousands such programs on ESPN. Name the star and Firestone likely had him or her on his shows, first S ports Look and later Up Close. These long-form interviews are no longer in vogue on television.

Yet in the day, Firestone was about as good as it gets profiling personalities. He could get interviewees teary-eyed or to open up like never before. Later, Ley hosted the highly successful, Outside the Lines. When ESPN went on the air in , it needed a recognizable and accomplished name. In the pre-explosive years of cable, Jim Simpson was a household name. He did lots of basketball early at ESPN, a sport to which the network had considerable rights. Jim was often paired with Dick Vitale.

Vitale did. On at least one occasion he ordered the truck to do so. DIck did and at least then, spoke in more measured intervals. Patrick was an early play-by-play announcer at ESPN. College basketball helped put ESPN on the play-by-play map.

Mike did the play-by-play of just about everything that ESPN was able to get in its fledgling years. He did so through its entire year run. Grande was reared in Connecticut so Bristol was not a foreign outpost for him. In fact, the two were the first faces that viewers saw when ESPN launched on that famous day, 40 years ago this September 7th.

Grande also engaged in the pick-by-pick coverage of the NFL draft. YouTube has clips of Grande anchoring a SportsCenter when he had no more than static graphics and a day-old film clip as on-air resources. On that YouTube clip, it appears that neither Grande, Gumbel or Berman had as much as the basic help of a teleprompter.

They were all extemporizing with just a few written notes.