(Photo Credit: New York Yankees)

It had been two decades since Chris Berman and Stuart Scott made the big announcement during the 11 p.m. Sunday night edition of SportsCenter . Broadcasting from Fenway Park following a 5-3 Yankees win over the Red Sox on July 17, 2005, the anchors revealed plans for SportsCenter Across America , an “unprecedented enterprise” in which ESPN would visit a different state each day to highlight a sporting event.

The logistics of transmitting from 50 states in 50 days would make any television executive’s head spin, but the network pulled it off. Its top anchors, from Linda Cohn and Steve Levy to Kenny Mayne and Scott Van Pelt, fanned out across the country to bring unique and fun sports stories into viewers’ homes every day for more than seven weeks.

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