An examination of Monday night's two major sports highlight programs shows both ESPN's "SportsCenter" and FS1's "Fox Sports Live" devoted a majority of time to the Dolphins-Saints "MNF" game and the Rays-Rangers tiebreaker, but they varied greatly in their presentation. "SportsCenter" came on air around 11:50pm ET following the Saints' 38-17 win, and the first 15 minutes of the 70-minute show was devoted to the "MNF" game, including highlights and analysis from several of the net's NFL personalities. Highlights of Rays-Rangers followed. The 11:00pm edition of "Fox Sports Live" was pushed back 25 minutes due to a live boxing event, and the show took the opposite approach as ESPN, leading with almost 35 minutes of coverage of the MLB tiebreaker before airing a report on Dolphins-Saints. That comes despite the fact Charissa Thompson opened the broadcast by saying, "Two huge games on one night." Another glaring difference between the shows was their preview of the NHL season. FS1 devoted more than five minutes to the subject, including a discussion with NHL analyst Chris Chelios. ESPN's preview came in the last minute of the broadcast, with anchor Steve Levy saying, "Here's our extensive NHL preview segment." FS1 had a small amount of coverage from the Heat's media day and had more overall MLB coverage than ESPN, which was more NFL-centric.
| "SPORTSCENTER" |
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"FOX SPORTS LIVE" |
| Dolphins-Saints on "MNF" highlights |
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Rays-Rangers |
Report from "MNF" broadcasters Mike
Tirico and Jon Gruden |
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Rays-Rangers analysis from FS1's Gabe Kapler and Ken Rosenthal |
| Report from "Monday Night Countdown" analysts in New Orleans |
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Postgame press conference from Rays-Rangers |
| Rays-Rangers |
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Live footage from Rays locker room |
| "Gillette Precise Moment" from Dolphins-Saints |
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NFL news and notes |
| Report from "Monday Night Countdown" analysts in New Orleans |
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Live footage from Rays locker room |
"GMC Never Say Never Moment of the
Week" nominees |
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Interview with Rays manager Joe Maddon |
| ESPN's Adam Schefter reporting on NFL news and notes |
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Interview with Rays DH Delmon Young |
ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" analysts
recapping Rays-Rangers |
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Dolphins-Saints |
| Postgame press conference from Dolphins-Saints |
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Dolphins-Saints analysis from FS1's Donovan McNabb and Tony Siragusa |
| Jon Gruden naming Saints RB Darren Sproles his "Gruden Grinder" award winner |
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Postgame press conference from Dolphins-Saints |
| Status of Buccaneers QB Josh Freeman being in the NFL's drug program |
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Live footage from Rays locker room |
| "Sunday Soundtracks" from week four of the NFL |
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Rays-Rangers highlights |
| "Top Ten" plays |
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Interview with Rays manager Joe Maddon |
| Preview of NHL season |
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More MLB analysis from FS1's Gabe Kapler |
| Status of Buccaneers QB Josh Freeman being in the NFL's drug program |
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Dolphins-Saints highlights |
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NHL analysis from FS1's Chris Chelios |
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Postgame press conference from Dolphins-Saints |
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Live footage from Rays locker room |
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Interview with Rays manager Joe Maddon |
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Status of Buccaneers QB Josh Freeman being in the NFL's drug program |
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Show's co-hosts commenting on headlines from New York and Philadelphia papers |
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"Case of the Mondays" segment of excerpts from NFL coaches' press conference |
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"Players Only" segment with McNabb, Siragusa, Chelios, Kapler and Andy Roddick |
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Heat media day |
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"The 1" segment of best MLB plays this season |
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"Best Person In Sports" segment |
