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Cold Pizza
Cold Pizza was a television sports talk show that aired weekday mornings on ESPN2. The show's format included daily sports news, interviews with sports journalists, athletes, and personalities, and an assortment of other sports and non-sports topics. This show began airing on October 20, 2003. The show's launch team and daily production management was led by broadcast executive Todd Mason. Although Cold Pizza was simulcast on ESPN2HD, it was not produced or presented in high definition. On October 2, 2006, DirecTV became the presenting sponsor with the show titled as Cold Pizza presented by DirecTV. Two back-to-back two-hour episodes aired each weekday from Monday through Friday, with the live episode airing from 10 a.m. ET until noon, followed by a repeat at 12 p.m. ET. The show was hosted by former SportsCenter personality, Dana Jacobson, who joined the program in 2005, and Jay Crawford, who was with the show for its entire run. Skip Bayless contributed during the "1st and 10" segments. Woody Paige, who had been his antagonist during those segments, left after the November 28, 2006, episode, citing health and personal reasons, leaving New York to return to the Denver Post, where he had been a longtime writer. The final edition of Cold Pizza aired on May 4, 2007. The following Monday, May 7, the show was replaced by a very similar program, ESPN First Take, which maintains many features of Cold Pizza, but is produced in high definition at ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.
Broadcast History
Cold Pizza logo from 2003-2005. Cold Pizza initially began as a one hour show at 7 a.m. ET, with the repeat following. Then in 2004 it expanded to a two hour show starting at 8 a.m. ET and a repeat following. In 2006, ESPN2 started airing a simulcast of Mike and Mike in the Morning, the morning program from 6 a.m. ET to 10 a.m. ET on ESPN Radio, which pushed Cold Pizza back to 10 a.m. ET. Cold Pizza was notable for having its own version of ESPN's BottomLine, as their ticker not only gave sports scores, but also news headlines and weather forecasts from sports cities and is shown in its own color scheme. It also functioned differently: it constantly scrolled, while other ESPN "BottomLines" usually "flip" through the different scores, scrolling only for long statistical lines. This graphic was discontinued in the summer of 2006, when the "BottomLine" was changed to resemble those of other ESPN programs. The program has gone on site for games and events quite often. On the road shows have included trips to Super Bowls XXXIX and XL and the Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas. At one point, part of Friday's shows originated from the College Gameday site. They went to New Orleans on September 25, 2006 for the re-opening of the Louisiana Superdome when the New Orleans Saints returned home to play the Atlanta Falcons. Guests on the show have included Senator John McCain, Hank Aaron, Pete Rose, Dennis Rodman, José Canseco, Senator Tom Davis, Mike Krzyzewski, Nick Lachey and even the man that caught Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball. On January 25, 2007 MediaWeek reported that ESPN would announce Cold Pizzas move from New York to the ESPN campus in Bristol, Connecticut.[1] In addition to being able to cut costs and produce the program in high definition, the new locale allowed more live appearances by ESPN analysts (as opposed to satellite or telephone interviews). However, the move reduced the amount of live appearances by celebrities and non-sports figures. The official chronology shows that Cold Pizza ended on May 4, and was replaced by a new show, ESPN First Take, on May 7, though nearly all of the former show's features were incorporated into the new show. Format
A portion of the Cold Pizza set The most recent format of the program featured the introduction graphic introducing the hosts and a show rundown. Following that was "The Top Story" of the sports world and an appropriate guest, followed by the "Morning Headlines," which included about four or five news items from around sports. The headline segment was repeated at the top of the second hour. At 20 and 40 past the first and second hour, Crawford, Bayless and Paige (or a guest contributor after Paige's departure) were featured in segments entitled "1st and 10," which were edited into a stand-alone show that aired later in the day. The "Morning Slice," a look at offbeat sports video, was also part of the program. Personalities
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ControversyIn February 2006, Texas Tech head basketball coach Bobby Knight was promoting a new reality show for ESPN entitled Knight School. Jacobson asked Knight at the end of the interview if he was interested in returning to his old coaching job at Indiana University. This made Knight angry, which ultimately led to him walking out of the interview. Jacobson was not at work the next day, but not because of the Knight incident; she had a planned vacation day, according to the network. Pre-emptions and cancellations
TriviaHosts Jay Crawford and Dana Jacobson often showed their love of their hometown and home state sports teams, with Jay supporting Cleveland and Ohio teams while Dana roots for her native Detroit and Michigan teams. This was most evident around the days preceding college football games between heated rivals Michigan and Ohio State, even though Crawford is actually a graduate of Bowling Green State University. Jacobson though, is a graduate of the University of Michigan. The name "Cold Pizza" was a nod to a common term for leftover pizza. In other words, what happened yesterday is being reviewed today. See alsoReferencesExternal links
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