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ABC · Ended

Sports Night

Drama, Comedy, Sports · 1998 · Rated 7.3/10

Last aired: S2 E22, Quo Vadimus (2) · 2000-05-16

Taut, exciting, realistic dramedy about the lives of sports journalists. It's a show about a show about sports, that isn't about sports at all.

Cast

Season 2

Season 1Season 2
E1 Special Powers 1999-10-05 · 30 min Casey tries to find the courage to ask Dana on a date. Jeremy and Natalie have a fight after Natalie is offered a job in Galveston. Isaac is back at work, but the stroke appears to be affecting his job performance.
E2 When Something Wicked This Way Comes 1999-10-12 · 30 min While awaiting the arrival of a ratings expert, Dana drops a bombshell on Casey about their first date. Meanwhile, Dan falls apart over the fact that he misspoke in front of the First Lady.
E3 Cliff Gardner 1999-10-19 · 30 min Sam Donovan's presence has everyone on edge. Dana considers leaving the show, because she feels like she's being held responsible for the show's problems. A meeting with network executives escalates into a crisis which has the team on the verge of quitting, but Sam deftly defuses the situation.
E4 Louise Revisited 1999-10-26 · 30 min Jeremy gets nervous when he discovers that Natalie is writing to his sister Louise. The network sets up a web poll to ask whether Dan or Casey is cooler, and Casey asks Jeremy to help him manipulate the votes. Dana goes out for dinner with an old high school friend.
E5 Kafelnikov 1999-11-02 · 30 min After meeting an attractive woman and learning that she's a psychologist, Dan obsesses over whether she was interested in dating him or taking him on as a therapy client. Jeremy accidentally blacks out the entire studio while trying to run Y2K tests on the production board.
E6 Shane 1999-12-07 · 30 min Casey wants to edit an interview to cast a ballplayer in a more favorable light, Dan has trouble taping a teaser, and The Vatican declares there's no such place as Hell.
E7 Kyle Whitaker's Got Two Sacks 1999-12-14 · 30 min Jeremy has to fire an intern, and the team covers breaking news of a football steroid scandal.
E8 The Reunion 1999-12-21 · 30 min Kyle is coming to town after his suspension is announced, and Dana's pretty much ready to kill him. Everyone is shopping for their office Secret Santa gifts, and Casey is mystified when Isaac says he wants a cheese grater. With the turn of the millennium just days away, the team is still struggling to decide whom to name as the athlete of the 20th century.
E9 A Girl Named Pixley 1999-12-28 · 30 min Jeremy is nominated for a sports journalism award that Natalie knows he's not going to win. After fighting Dana's dating plan, Casey finally goes out on a date with a girl named Pixley, and Dana begins to have second thoughts.
E10 The Giants Win the Pennant, the Giants Win the Pennant 2000-01-11 · 30 min Dan wants to do a feature report on the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", but Isaac refuses to be interviewed for it even though he was at the game. Dan thinks Isaac is embarrassed about his speech having been slowed down since the stroke, but in reality Isaac is embarrassed to admit that he missed the home run because he was in the bathroom. Dana is even more freaked out when Casey goes on a second date with Pixley.
E11 The Cut Man Cometh 2000-01-18 · 30 min While prepping to cover a major fight, Dana and Casey duke it out over their stalled fling, and Dan's dad hits town for a tense visit. But after the match goes south, the CSC staff bands together to knock out a killer show.
E12 The Sweet Smell of Air 2000-01-25 · 30 min Sports Night is offered an exclusive interview with Michael Jordan, but the team struggles to accept the strict conditions attached: they can't ask him about sports at all, but only about his new line of cologne. The Michael Jordan interview was only offered to them out of the perception that they would be the only one of the major sports networks desperate enough for the ratings to agree to Jordan's conditions, but Sam tells Isaac and Dana that they are not. Casey is invited to speak to Charlie's class, but can't figure out what to talk about.
E13 Dana Get Your Gun 2000-02-01 · 30 min Natalie and Jeremy fight over going to a nightclub. Dan has the night off, but the substitute anchor is morose and keeps making comments on the air to his girlfriend instead of reading the teleprompter. Dana is conflicted after she inherits an antique Revolutionary War gun.
E14 And the Crowd Goes Wild 2000-02-08 · 30 min Jeremy and Natalie's breakup begins to impact the show after Jeremy asks for his stuff back. Casey is temporarily blinded from an eye test, and Dan takes the opportunity to play practical jokes on him. After a riot breaks out at Madison Square Garden, Natalie objects to the show turning over its film of the event to the police.
E15 Celebrities 2000-02-29 · 30 min After being excluded from a staff game night because Natalie was organizing it, Jeremy goes to a bar and befriends Jenny, but panics when he realizes that she's a porn actress. Isaac is upset that he can't remember the lyrics to a song from a Broadway show.
E16 The Local Weather 2000-03-07 · 30 min Dan decides to skip his therapy appointment, but spends the entire length of a normal appointment in his therapist's office explaining why. Jeremy e-mails Jenny to apologize for blowing her off, but then meets up with her in person only to explain why he's not going to see her again. Casey tries to bribe the gang to watch a track and field event with him in the middle of the night.
E17 Draft Day: Part I - It Can't Rain at Indian Wells 2000-03-14 · 30 min Casey and Dana compete with each other over their NFL draft predictions. Dan has a golf date with PGA star David Duval, but work might keep him from being able to go. Jeremy tells Natalie about Jenny, except for the part about her being a porn star. Casey and Dan are angry with each other and their professional relationship might be in trouble.
E18 Draft Day: Part II - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian 2000-03-21 · 30 min Jenny is coming to visit the studio, but Jeremy is afraid of what Natalie will think of her. Dan makes Casey look foolish on the air.
E19 April is the Cruelest Month 2000-03-28 · 30 min Due to network cutbacks, the show's Olympic coverage is going to be limited and Natalie may be about to lose her job. Dan holds a Passover Seder and makes up for his inappropriate on air behavior toward Casey.
E20 Bells And A Siren 2000-04-04 · 30 min Amid rumblings of internal layoffs, Jeremy and Casey look into the network's stock -- and find a shocking truth about their job security. Meanwhile, Natalie eyes another job on a late-night sketch show.
E21 La Forza Del Destino (1) 2000-05-09 · 30 min The gang gathers at Anthony's to mull over the future of the show, where a stranger piques Dana's interest with inside information about the bidding for Continental Corp.
E22 Quo Vadimus (2) 2000-05-16 · 30 min A mystery man gives Dana the scoop on CSC's fate after the network is bought out by an upstart company with no need for a cable channel. Meanwhile, Casey prepares to look for new work without Dan, who is reunited with a familiar face from his past.

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