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SportsCentury
Season 1 • Episode 54 • No. 6 -- Jesse Owens
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SportsCentury Season 1, Episode 54: No. 6 -- Jesse Owens
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70 episodesCasey Stengel
30 min
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.
30 min
No. 50 -- Chris Evert
30 min
No. 49 -- O.J. Simpson
30 min
No. 48 -- Pete Sampras
30 min
No. 47 -- Edwin Moses
30 min
No. 46 -- Eric Heiden
30 min
No. 45 -- Bill Tilden
30 min
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1950s
30 min
No. 44 -- Bobby Jones
30 min
No. 43 -- Julius Erving
30 min
No. 42 -- Sandy Koufax
30 min
No. 41 -- Wilma Rudolph
30 min
No. 40 -- Lawrence Taylor
30 min
No. 39 -- Walter Payton
30 min
No. 38 -- Ben Hogan
30 min
No. 37 -- Mickey Mantle
30 min
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1960s
30 min
No. 36 -- Oscar Robertson
30 min
The Greatest Coaches of the Century
30 min
No. 35 -- Secretariat
30 min
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.
30 min
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.
30 min
No. 34 -- Lou Gehrig
30 min
No. 33 -- Mark Spitz
30 min
Greatest Games
30 min
No. 32 -- Johnny Unitas
30 min
No. 31 -- Bobby Orr
30 min
No. 30 -- Larry Bird
30 min
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1970s
30 min
No. 29 -- Arnold Palmer
30 min
No. 28 -- Red Grange
30 min
No. 27 -- Jerry Rice
30 min
No. 26 -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
30 min
No. 25 -- Joe Montana
30 min
No. 24 -- Sugar Ray Robinson
30 min
No. 23 -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
30 min
No. 22 -- Joe DiMaggio
30 min
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1980s
30 min
No. 21 -- Gordie Howe
30 min
No. 20 -- Ty Cobb
30 min
No. 19 -- Martina Navratilova
30 min
No. 18 -- Bill Russell
30 min
No. 17 -- Magic Johnson
30 min
No. 16 -- Ted Williams
30 min
No. 15 -- Jackie Robinson
30 min
No. 14 -- Hank Aaron
30 min
No. 13 -- Wilt Chamberlain
30 min
No. 12 -- Carl Lewis
30 min
No. 11 -- Joe Louis
30 min
No. 10 -- Babe Didrikson
30 min
No. 9 -- Jack Nicklaus
30 min
No. 8 -- Willie Mays
30 min
No. 7 -- Jim Thorpe
30 min
No. 6 -- Jesse Owens
30 min
No. 5 -- Wayne Gretzky
30 min
No. 4 -- Jim Brown
30 min
No. 3 -- Muhammad Ali
30 min
No. 2 -- Babe Ruth
30 min
No. 1 -- Michael Jordan
30 min
SportsCenter of the Decade: 1990s
30 min
Yogi Berra
30 min
Derek Jeter
30 min
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.
30 min
Brian Piccolo
30 min
No. 50 - Chris Evert
30 min
Joe DiMaggio
30 min
Willie Mays
30 min
Billy Martin
30 min
Don Larsen
30 min