Season 1

0. Casey Stengel

2000-10-03 • 30 min

1. 1900-49

The SportsCentury begins with this two-hour reflection of the major sports events that endeared themselves to the American conscience in the first half of the 20th Century. Dave Anderson, Dick Schaap, and Curt Gowdy sit around newspaper offices as the ""hosts"" in this newsreel-type retrospective.

1999-01-21 • 30 min

2. No. 50 -- Chris Evert

1999-01-22 • 30 min

3. No. 49 -- O.J. Simpson

1999-01-29 • 30 min

4. No. 48 -- Pete Sampras

1999-02-05 • 30 min

5. No. 47 -- Edwin Moses

1999-02-12 • 30 min

6. No. 46 -- Eric Heiden

1999-02-19 • 30 min

7. No. 45 -- Bill Tilden

1999-02-26 • 30 min

8. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1950s

1999-03-09 • 30 min

9. No. 44 -- Bobby Jones

1999-03-12 • 30 min

10. No. 43 -- Julius Erving

1999-03-19 • 30 min

11. No. 42 -- Sandy Koufax

1999-04-02 • 30 min

12. No. 41 -- Wilma Rudolph

1999-04-09 • 30 min

13. No. 40 -- Lawrence Taylor

1999-04-16 • 30 min

14. No. 39 -- Walter Payton

1999-04-23 • 30 min

15. No. 38 -- Ben Hogan

1999-04-30 • 30 min

16. No. 37 -- Mickey Mantle

1999-05-07 • 30 min

17. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1960s

1999-05-21 • 30 min

18. No. 36 -- Oscar Robertson

1999-05-14 • 30 min

19. The Greatest Coaches of the Century

1999-05-22 • 30 min

20. No. 35 -- Secretariat

1999-05-21 • 30 min

21. Most Influential People in Sports

Counts down the ten non-athletes who left the greatest impact on the sports world in the 20th Century. Profiles include: Walter O'Malley, Branch Rickey, Pette Rozelle, David Stern, Roone Arledge, and Marvin Miller.

1999-05-23 • 30 min

22. Greatest Dynasties

The teams that dominated their sport–the New York Yankees, Boston Celtics, Montréal Canadiens, UCLA Bruins, Notre Dame Fighting Irish–are profiled. So are the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Bulls, and San Francisco 49ers.

1999-05-30 • 30 min

23. No. 34 -- Lou Gehrig

1999-05-28 • 30 min

24. No. 33 -- Mark Spitz

1999-06-04 • 30 min

25. Greatest Games

1999-06-05 • 30 min

26. No. 32 -- Johnny Unitas

1999-06-11 • 30 min

27. No. 31 -- Bobby Orr

1999-06-18 • 30 min

28. No. 30 -- Larry Bird

1999-06-25 • 30 min

29. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1970s

1999-07-09 • 30 min

30. No. 29 -- Arnold Palmer

1999-07-02 • 30 min

31. No. 28 -- Red Grange

1999-07-09 • 30 min

32. No. 27 -- Jerry Rice

1999-07-16 • 30 min

33. No. 26 -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

1999-07-23 • 30 min

34. No. 25 -- Joe Montana

1999-07-30 • 30 min

35. No. 24 -- Sugar Ray Robinson

1999-07-30 • 30 min

36. No. 23 -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

1999-08-06 • 30 min

37. No. 22 -- Joe DiMaggio

1999-08-20 • 30 min

38. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1980s

1999-09-17 • 30 min

39. No. 21 -- Gordie Howe

1999-09-03 • 30 min

40. No. 20 -- Ty Cobb

1999-09-17 • 30 min

41. No. 19 -- Martina Navratilova

1999-09-24 • 30 min

42. No. 18 -- Bill Russell

1999-10-01 • 30 min

43. No. 17 -- Magic Johnson

1999-10-08 • 30 min

44. No. 16 -- Ted Williams

1999-10-08 • 30 min

45. No. 15 -- Jackie Robinson

1999-10-15 • 30 min

46. No. 14 -- Hank Aaron

1999-10-29 • 30 min

47. No. 13 -- Wilt Chamberlain

1999-10-29 • 30 min

48. No. 12 -- Carl Lewis

1999-11-05 • 30 min

49. No. 11 -- Joe Louis

1999-11-19 • 30 min

50. No. 10 -- Babe Didrikson

1999-12-03 • 30 min

51. No. 9 -- Jack Nicklaus

1999-12-03 • 30 min

52. No. 8 -- Willie Mays

1999-12-10 • 30 min

53. No. 7 -- Jim Thorpe

1999-12-10 • 30 min

54. No. 6 -- Jesse Owens

1999-12-17 • 30 min

55. No. 5 -- Wayne Gretzky

1999-12-17 • 30 min

56. No. 4 -- Jim Brown

1999-12-24 • 30 min

57. No. 3 -- Muhammad Ali

1999-12-24 • 30 min

58. No. 2 -- Babe Ruth

1999-12-26 • 30 min

59. No. 1 -- Michael Jordan

1999-12-26 • 30 min

60. SportsCenter of the Decade: 1990s

2000-03-26 • 30 min

61. Yogi Berra

2003-10-13 • 30 min

62. Derek Jeter

2003-10-17 • 30 min

63. Brian Piccolo

A profile of the late Brian Piccolo, the 1964 ACC Player of the Year at Wake Forest and later a member of the Chicago Bears, where he formed a friendship with Gale Sayers that was depicted in the 1971 film “Brian's Song.” Piccolo died of cancer in 1970.

2001-11-02 • 30 min

64. Brian Piccolo

2001-11-02 • 30 min

102. No. 50 - Chris Evert

1999-01-22 • 30 min

103. Joe DiMaggio

2000-07-10 • 30 min

104. Willie Mays

2000-07-25 • 30 min

105. Billy Martin

2000-08-07 • 30 min

106. Don Larsen

2000-10-23 • 30 min