The Sports Reporters
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The Sports Reporters is a sports talk show that airs on ESPN at 10am ET every Sunday morning (and replayed at 12:30pm ET the same day on ESPNEWS). The show's official name is The Sports Reporters presented by American Express. It is broadcast in New York City, New York at the ESPN Zone. The format of the show is a roundtable discussion among four sports media personalities, with one regular host and three rotating guests. The show was originally hosted by Gary Thorne and later Dick Schaap. The host of the show since the death of Schaap is John Saunders. Regular panelists include Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News, Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press, Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post, Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe, Stephen A. Smith of Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith and Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star. No women are regular panelists on the show, but in celebration of Title IX one show in 2005 included three female sports journalists.
The majority of the show is discussion of issues posed by the host. The subjects vary from predictions for upcoming events to on- or off-the-field controversies, and the discussions occasionally get heated. The hallmark of the show is the final segment, Parting Shots, in which each of the four panelists delivers a short monologue. The Parting Shots are often a time for the journalists to address a subject that they think is not being sufficiently covered. They are frequently humorous, and usually intended to be thought-provoking.
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