ESPN SportsCenter (May 17, 1997)

Dave Revsine and Dave Feldman bring you the latest on Charles Barkley on his playoff series with the Sonics and Rockets including Game 7 highlights, the 122nd Preakness Stakes in Baltimore (I remember being at my late maternal grandpa's house when this was run), the Orioles' Jimmy Key picking up his eighth win over the Seattle Mariners, the New York Yankees defeating the Texas Rangers, the Dodgers and Giants also picking up Ws, the Detroit Red Wings evening up their conference final series against the Avalanche, 3rd round coverage from the Bryon Nelson Classic with Tiger Woods sitting atop the leaderboard, the Senior PGA's Cadillac Classic featuring NFL players, a couple more National League scores, Indy 500 qualifying footage, NASCAR's The Winston race with Jeff Gordon your winner, several more MLB games, LPGA Tour action, golfer George Archer, Tennis' Italian and German Open, and a couple MLS scores on this edition of SportsCenter.

[@GrowinupinSincity81]

Classic "The Big Show." Amazing '90s Highlights and Memories. Terrific NBA Playoffs, and the MLB Season that brought Interleague Play into the Norm.

[@thomastripp9002]

A day before my 8th Birthday. However, way more importantly, this is a great upload and when sports and ESPN were worth watching!!! This SportsCenter theme brings back memories!!

[@pannoni8449]

Yes, the Internet was around, but ESPN.com wasn't full of video stories yet, so SportsCenter was the still the place for the latest sports news!

[@tysheinin8733]

More of these pleaae. What a great time capsule!

[@EmEs1018]

I was still 18yrs old when this broadcast happened.. I think I started watching sport center on the regular in 1998-1999… R.I.P. Stuart Scott! 🙏
Those late 90s tv graphics are really grainy trash! Can’t believe we thought that was a normal picture compared to todays HD.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Well Bonnie Bernstein had already left for CBS by then.

[@nedwart]

This might be the most obscure anchor combo ever

[@jeffbowen2608]

The Rockets & Sonics played Game 7 in the building that now houses Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. And as we all know, the Sonics are no more, having moved to OKC in 2008 to become the Thunder.

[@jeffbowen2608]

Classic comments from Mr. Barkley, who has become a legend on the very network where he delivered those comments.

[@patrickfisher4151]

It is amazing what resvine is doing now and Dan Feldman I don’t know what happened with him

[@codym8897]

Can you upload the December 2, 1988 episode of ESPN SportsCenter? It's SportsCenter's 10,000th episode, and Tom Mees, Chris Berman, and Bob Ley sported their tuxedos.👍

[@wildethang93]

That episode was actually in May 1998 because they covered David Wells' perfect game as well as the Bulls-Pacers Conference Finals series.

[@wayne5969]

And George Karl was wrong per usual. Daaaaa Bulls