Daily Bobblehead Winners

Listed below are the daily winners from ESPN.com's "Why do you love SportsCenter in 25 words (or so…)" contest. If your essay appears below, keep your eye on your e-mail box because we will be contacting you about your bobblehead.


Day 25 Second Chance Winner

"I love SportsCenter because with all the crap going on in the world today it's the one thing that will always be funny, fresh, and enjoyable."

Kris
San Jose, Calif.


Day 24 Second Chance Winner

"Personality is what makes SportsCenter the best show ever created. The on-air personalities like Stu Scott, Dan Patrick, and Chris Berman could make the annual square dance at the old folks home entertaining."

Mike
Springfield, MO.


Day 23 Second Chance Winner

"Sportscenter's proud, but doesn't take itself too seriously; a 25-word essay is divine! I would have wrote a treatise on why I love Sportscenter - and they would have probably torn it up. That's why I love Sportscenter."

Sam
San Francisco, Calif.


Day 22 Second Chance Winner

"A strange city. A strange hotel room. I go into a bar. SportsCenter is on. I look up. I smile. I have a friend. Anywhere. Everywhere. Everyday."

David
Woodacre, Calif.


Day 21 Second Chance Winner

"79 was a good year for many things. The disco died, puberty passed, big hair was in and SportsCenter was born. The rest is gravy."

Pat
Seabeck, Wash.


Day 20 Second Chance Winner

"With SportsCenter, I save $200 that I would have spent for 30 minutes of professional psychiatric help."

Eric
Rockaway, NJ


Day 19 Second Chance Winner

"Evenings of leisure with my feet up in the air,
Sports highlights gleaming; I haven't a care.
Please don't disturb me, or you'll have to be goin'
No one interrupts my nights with Linda Cohen."

Mike
Mercer Island, Wash.


Day 18 Second Chance Winner

"I love SportsCenter because if my wife says something when it's on I can say, 'honey I just missed the part I was wanting to see, now I will have to watch it all over again next hour.'"

Patrick
Louisville, Ky.


Day 17 Second Chance Winner

"Let's hear it from the girls ... we're not chopped liver. Living in Florida, it's great when ESPN has Red Sox games, UConn girl's basketball and even greater when I can see Bristol again (I used to live there) when you show a Little League game."

Janet
West Palm Beach, Fla.


Day 16 Winner
"SportsCenter is my love because it is warm, funny, entertaing, makes no demands, celebrates its anniversies with requiring a gift, and does not nag me to pick up my clothes."

Jim
Tallahassee, Fla.


Day 15 Winner
"'I think we've just found a SportsCenter highlight,' is how Joe Theismann described an incomplete pass ending up wedged between the butt cheeks of a Miami Dolphins defender on Monday Night Football. How can you help but love a show that inspires that kind of thinking?"

Reed
San Francisco, Calif.


Day 14 Winner
"Sportscenter took the boredom out of this insomniac's life. Before it came along my late nights were spent watching re-runs or alphabetizing my record collection. Yawn."

Celio
Wallingford, Ct.


Day 13 Winner
" Like Pavlov's dog's salivating when a bell is rung, men around the country salivate in anticipation when they flip on the TV and hear the best six notes in music, 'Da da da, da da da.'"

Aaron
Waterloo, IA


Day 12 Winner
"Sportscenter has, in a way, become my mistress, my wife and my refuge. It has held my hand as I struggled through two miserable marriages, and as I made my way through nine years of being a single dad. Women may come and go, but Sportcenter is forever!"

Timothy
Danville, Va.


Day 11 Winner
"I love SportCenter because it's one of the few shows that encourages its audience to watch in their underwear ... at least that's what I told my wife!"

Gary
Three Rivers, Mass.


Day 10 Winner
"ESPN did for men what all the women in the world couldn't -- it made us stop changing channels."

David
League City, Texas


Day 9 Winner
"A semi-controlled state of broadcast lunacy. You've twisted contemporary sportscasting paradigms into salty beer pretzels. You color outside the lines and we embrace it for the masterpiece that it is. Whodathunkit?"

Kenny
Montgomery, Ala.


Day 8 Winner
"Because during the course of each show, we all see something which reminds us of why we first fell in love with sports."

Brendan
Sewell, NJ


Day 7 Winner
"When my girlfriend dumped me at one in the morning ... my friends were drunk ... my parents were asleep ... but SportsCenter was there.

SportsCenter, you're my best friend."

Mike
Cambridge, Mass.


Day 6 Winner
"SportsCenter has stumbled, fumbled and rumbled into my heart. I can't go a day without you. You've made me bust a gut, shake my head, enlightened and even cry. You've taken sports to a new level and through it all you've hit nothing but the bottom of the net. Boo ya."

Luis
Orlando, Fla.


Day 5 Winner
"I sincerely apologize for having missed the May 23, 1991 9 a.m. replay edition of the previous night's 11 p.m. show. Job interview. Long story. Won't happen again."

Josh
Oak Park, Ill.


Day 4 Winner
"SportsCenter is the only show I know of that can make a wife cringe with 6 simple syllables: da da da...da da da!"

Jody Heap
New Orleans, La.


Day 3 Winner
"SportsCenter is the greatest show on TV because it always filled the 2 - 3 am void that was left between coming home from the evening activities and passing out (note: college years only ... ok, maybe a few years after that as well)."

Keith Albert
Columbus, Ohio


Day 2 Winner
"SportsCenter lets me, as a "can't shoot, putt, throw, kick, skate, box, dance, hurdle, row, bowl, freestyle, fish, or swim guy" keep up with those who can -- oh, and finding out what happened with sports makes it worth watching too."

Jason Bittner
Madison, Wisc.


Day 1 Winner
"SportCenter is simply the best show ever created. It's groudbreaking philoshophy on sports reporting has paved the way for today's sports media empire. Sportscenter offers sports information, analysis, and entertainment in a cutting edge format that appeals to athletes and fans of all ages. "

Jeff
Riverside, Calif.