Recent news involving sports media personalities, including Alex Ovechkin shooting a This Is SportsCenter ad, Mitch Williams joining FOX as a guest analyst for the NLCS and Terry Gannon calling NBA games for ESPN.
- Alex Ovechkin: The Capitals star will be part of an upcoming This Is SportsCenter ad, reports Sports Business Daily. Shooting for the ad will take place Monday from ESPN’s Bristol, CT, headquarters. (Sports Business Daily)
- Mitch Williams: The MLB Network personality will serve as a pregame and postgame analyst for Games 1 and 2 of the Giants/Phillies NLCS on FOX. Williams will work alongside FOX regulars Chris Rose and Eric Karros. (Fang’s Bites)
- Terry Gannon: The ESPN play-by-play voice is scheduled to work at least two NBA games in the next month — the October 23 Warriors/Lakers preseason game and Thunder/Celtics on November 19. Gannon, the lead voice of the WNBA on ESPN, has rarely — if ever — called NBA games for the network. (ESPN)
