What I Learned From A Year Of Watching SportsCenter

7/26/13 11:11am

Thirty-three years and more than 50,000 episodes on, SportsCenter is less a television show or a convenient way to catch up on the day in sports than a great mechanical contraption gone awry, its parts moving independently not just of one another but of any obvious directing intelligence.

Bristolmetrics: SportsCenter Poops All Over Mark Sanchez

12/27/12 3:30pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: Too Much Rick Reilly, Too Much Darren Rovell, And 15 Seconds Of Hockey

12/19/12 2:25pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: ESPN Covered A Meaningless Monday Night Football Game More Than The Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide

12/13/12 6:00pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: ESPN Covers A Quarterback Controversy Not Involving Tim Tebow

11/28/12 2:30pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: SportsCenter Introduces WAR, Degenerates Into Shouting About Basement-Dwelling Nerds

11/21/12 4:25pm

This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: ESPN Buries The Eagles

11/14/12 5:35pm

This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: Marcus Lattimore's Injury Tests SportsCenter's Policy On Showing Really Gross Things

11/08/12 2:50pm

This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: Even John Kruk's Hindsight Is Terrible

10/31/12 6:36pm

This a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: ESPN Anoints Alex Rodriguez As History's Greatest Monster

10/23/12 5:20pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: Stuart Scott Asks SportsCenter's Single Dumbest Question Of 2012

10/17/12 1:15pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: The WNBA Gets More Air Time Than The NHL

10/09/12 4:25pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: The Best SportsCenter Of 2012

10/03/12 4:30pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: Everybody Hates Lane Kiffin

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: "Griffining" Got More SportsCenter Coverage Than The NHL Lockout

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: SportsCenter Spent 45 Straight Commercial-Free Minutes On Giants-Cowboys

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: SportsCenter Thinks You Can't Get Enough Of Roger Clemens

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: ESPN Loves Urban Meyer, And The Feeling Is Mutual

8/29/12 12:15pm

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: The Jets Are America's Team, According To Tebow-Horny SportsCenter

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week.

Bristolmetrics: SportsCenter Finally Discovers Mike Trout

This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke.