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George Michael's Sports Machine was a staple of my Sunday night viewing for many years.

 

 

RIP

 

 

 

Loved watching him here in the DC area. Awesome sports reporter.

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George Michael's Sports Machine was a staple of my Sunday night viewing for many years.

 

 

RIP

The guy pretty much was the precursor to what ESPN does now. Highlights of all the games. He loved sports and it showed.

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He was the first to run the continue video stream and narrate over it.

While in college a group of the sport fanatics along with myself in the dorm would turn on DC's Channel 4 to watch him do the sports.

RIP GM you were the best.

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Without cable, the Sports Machine was the only way I could get Bills highlights on Sunday.

Yeah, me too. Every Sunday during the season I'd watch to catch a glimpse of the Bills.

 

RIP George

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Sad news.

 

He was a true pioneer of the TV 'sports magazine' format, and would always lighten things up his sportscasts with some offbeat thing like pro-wrestling clips, and NASCAR hi-lites way before NASCAR was big. He was one of the first to make sports news into entertainment. Used to watch him on the local news when I lived there in the early '80s, where his local sportscasts and sunday night 11:30 sports extra reports eventually evolved into his syndicated Sports Machine show - which I believe is the model for ESPN's Sports Center and all similar shows.

 

Didn't know he was ill. RIP George. :thumbsup:

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