Comedian Kenny Mayne from Wikipedia.

Sports career

A native of Kent, Washington, Mayne is a former honorable mention junior college All-American quarterback in 1978 at Wenatchee Valley Community College in Wenatchee, WA. Kenny graduated from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1982, with a degree in Broadcasting, where he was the back-up quarterback and ahead of future NFL star Randall Cunningham on the depth chart. While at UNLV, Mayne played football for two years and later signed as a free agent with the Seattle Seahawks.

He has been the manager for the American League team in the Legends and Celebrity All Star Softball Game since its inception in 2001.

[edit]ESPN

ESPN hired Mayne in 1994 after Mayne had sent ESPN a note inquiring whether or not the network would hire him. The note simply asked to check a box, including one option which read,"We'll hire you when there's an ESPN5."^[1]

Mayne started at ESPN in 1994 as a SportSmash anchor on ESPN2, and soon moved over to the main network. He became well known for his dry sense of humor and his unique home run calls.

For a time, he served as co-anchor of the 11PM SportsCenter with Dan Patrick after Keith Olbermann left ESPN. He left SportsCenter two years later, moving to an assortment of late night ESPN shows which were usually re-aired throughout the next morning. Included in his repertoire was the game show 2 Minute Drill. Mayne is now most often seen as commentator for select horse racing events, as well as providing offbeat feature stories on Sunday NFL Countdown in a weekly segment called "The Mayne Event."*

On January 17, 2007, ESPN signed Mayne to a one year contract to do features and cover horse racing, as well as return to SportsCenter for about 50 shows in 2007.[1]

He is also on Dancing with the Stars occasionally.  Here is the rest at Wiki. 

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