ESPN is relaunching Up Close on ESPN+ with Sage Steele hosting
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05/27/2021
Earlier today on SportsCenter, Sage Steele aired part of her upcoming interview with Dak Prescott. While a long substantive sit-down with Prescott is certainly newsworthy, what caught my attention was Steele’s announcement that the interview was for a rebooted Up Close, the famed longform ESPN interview program that ran for twenty years on ESPN before ending in 2001. Below is the clip of the announcement of the soon-to-launch show, said to be launching next month on ESPN+:
It's impossible to list all my favorite interviews I've done over the last seven years here but as I sit here preparing to do my last few full-time shows there are a few that come to mind. There's obviously every time Buster Olney has been on the show but I actually consider him part of the show and more than just a guest. Obviously, the Super Bowl trips are the base for a lot of the ones I'm most proud of. Let me know if any interviews I've been lucky enough to do are your favorites, please. Here are a few top interviews in no particular order.
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Tampa Bay just made history (again) and GM Jason Licht should take a bow
Super Bowl champions aren t supposed to win the offseason, too. The Tampa Bay Bucs just did.
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Super Bowl champions aren t supposed to win the offseason, too. The Tampa Bay Bucs just did.
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Hall-of-Fame coach Jimmy Johnson once said the hardest part of coaching in the NFL is not winning a Super Bowl. It s winning a second one.
His reasons were as numerous as they were legitimate: Off-the-field distractions, shortened offseason, contract disputes, free agency. You name it, there are a myriad of reasons why no Super Bowl winner has repeated since 2004.