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ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture Morphing Years of Highlights | 
 enlarge | Authors: Charles Hirshberg, Chris Berman
Publisher: ESPN
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 505423
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/DVD
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 140133704X
Dewey Decimal Number: 384.555
EAN: 9781401337049
ASIN: 140133704X
Publication Date: September 7, 2004
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Product Description
hen ESPN went on the air in September 1979, the company believed that there was room on television for dedicated sports programming. At the time, sports programming was considered a risk, and ESPN a maverick. Twenty-five years later, ESPN is the leader in sports, influencing the way we think about sports, the way the media covers sports, and how we perceive athletes. ESPN has grown from one cable station into a sports empire. ESPN25, the book, celebrates the people behind ESPN, the sports they cover, the athletes that play their hearts out, and, of course, the fans who care. The book includes the Best and Worst of Everything in Sports Over the Past 25 Years, an illustrated foldout of the Top 35 Athletes of the Past 25 years, the funniest sports quotes of the past 25 years, the DVD, an intro by Berman, Chuck's essay on the Highlights Culture and how it has changed the world of sports over the past 25 years. Bound into the book is a free DVD containing the ever popular, and now classic, ESPN SportsCenter commercials. Beginning in May '04 and running through September '04, ESPN will feature special 25th Anniversary programming, including television and radio specials, magazine features, and website contests. Perfect for both the serious and casual sports fan, ESPN25 relives some of the greatest moments in sports on each and every page.
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 Blech May 15, 2005
ESPN 25 seems as if it were put together by a high school senior trying to do a quick job on a term paper. The prose and content make the book flow about as well as a lactose-intolerant person's colon after downing a double-thick milkshake and grilled cheese.
The book is worthwhile only if you can get it for a steep discount, and even then only if the DVD is still intact.
 Great book! December 13, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read this on a 2-hour flight to miami.
Made the flight seem like 20 minutes.
Very good read!
 Let's Go to the Videotape November 17, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's hard to imagine ESPN starting off way back when as a small cable operation that appeared not to have a future some 25 years later. And yet ESPN has forever influenced and changed sports broadcasting. This book takes a look back at some of the highlights of those 25 years, along with anecdotes from some of sports' greatest moments and ESPN anchors. Heck with the foreword by Chris Berman, what more could you ask for? There's even a brief history of how sports has been reported since the proverbial "beginning of time." And throughout the book are 'best of" lists: the best draft pics, the best sports mascots, best venues to watch a sports event, even ESPN's choices for the greatest athletes of the last 25 years, along with numerous others.
The book helps capture what those crazy early days of ESPN were like, along with an idea of what things are like around there nowadays. I remember watching some of the "early days" of ESPN up to the present. It's amazing to think ESPN has now become an institution. This book is not an "in depth" history of ESPN, there are other books for that. But it is an enjoyable, easily read book that details the ESPN experience and how that experience has changed us all.
And yes points off on the included DVD, it's a shame some of the classic SportsCenter commericals like the Y2K aren't on here.
 The book is clutch, the DVD not so much October 22, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is awesome - being 25 years old, this book pretty much covers sports history in my lifetime. However, the DVD leaves much to be desired (and I must admit, a big reason why I purchased this). Note, I don't know what the other guy was thinking, but the Y2K commercial is NOT ON THE DVD. There is no Charley Steiner saying "FOLLOW ME TO FREEDOM!". Unless I got a different edition. There are other commercials that are missing, like the one where the Syracuse Orangeman doing donuts in Terry Labonte's car. Overall, a good purchase. But don't expect much from the free DVD.
disappointing dvd October 22, 2004
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
can comment on DVD - have been writing to ESPN to get a "best commercial" volume out for years - many great ESPN commercials missing - such as "Electric football" commercials and "Sports Center the cartoon" commercials - ESPN has a great opportunity to make some money on a comprehensive DVD of the commercials but fails to do so...
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