After his graduation, he took a 50% pay cut and relocated to Cheyenne, Wyoming to begin his career as sports director for KGWN. To get there though, he worked as a personal banker at a credit union while attaining his undergraduate degree in journalism at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. In fact, Striewski wrote in his eighth grade yearbook that he would be a SportsCenter anchor at ESPN when he grew up.
Both anchors grew up in military households and watched SportsCenter from the time they were young, and recognize it as part of the reason they wanted to become broadcasters. They rose through the broadcasting ranks with an unwavering persistence and determination to succeed. Randy Scott and Gary Striewski followed a similar path that took their careers to ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. More than 60,000 episodes later, the institution continues to be a backbone of ESPN’s studio programming. Integrating other aspects of pop culture, such as movies, music or current events, into the sports news cycle and interspersing it other dialogue when applicable, renders the program compelling and intriguing for viewers to watch on a daily basis. As a result, the chemistry between the hosts of each individual edition of SportsCenter is something that has to be fostered in order to keep fans coming back for the hosts per se. The purpose of SportsCenter as a show on ESPN is not only to serve as a source of information, but also as a place for viewers to be entertained. Today, the format of the program has somewhat changed, concurrent with the dynamic state of today’s media landscape and the increased accessibility fans have to the sports teams and leagues they follow – some doing so more fastidiously than others. Over the years, SportsCenter has been anchored by its share of notorious personalities, including Scott Van Pelt, Craig Kilborn, Dan Patrick and Stuart Scott, all of whom infused or continue to infuse the program with their nuances. “This is SportsCenter.” Those iconic words have been spoken over ESPN’s multiple platforms of dissemination since 1979, indicative of the start of an hour of game highlights, expert analysis, memorable in-studio moments, and for some, the realization of a career goal.
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