Kenny Mayne

Commentator

Los Angeles SportsCenter Anchor; The Mayne Event; Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports

Kenny Mayne, who joined ESPN in May 1994, was named a Los Angeles-based SportsCenter anchor in August 2013.

In his work as an anchor and reporter, Mayne has become well known for his offbeat style, dry humor, and unique sayings (“thanks for having electricity”) and home run calls (“I am amused by the simplicity of this game!”).  Although he stands out in the studio – his most prominent roles have been on SportsCenter, ESPN2’s motorsports show, RPM 2Night and hosting both seasons of the sports trivia game show 2-Minute Drill – it truly shines in features, often humorous and currently his primary vehicle as a commentator at ESPN.  In his “The Mayne Event” segments on Sunday NFL Countdown – ranging from the fourth grader who wore a Brett Favre jersey for 600 days to the “real reason”  quarterbacks lick their fingers to making nachos with Martha Stewart for the Super Bowl XL pre-game show – his creativity and deadpan delivery distinguish his work.

From 2008 – 2011, he produced and starred in an original scripted series on ESPN.com titled Mayne Street.   Mayne played himself in a fictionalized version of life at the center of sports television.  In 2011, he shifted gears and debuted Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports on ESPN.com.  Inspired by the iconic Wide World of Sports on ABC in days gone by, it takes a look at unusual sports from exotic and distant locales around the world.

For many years until 2011, Mayne also hosted ESPN’s horse racing coverage, a life-long passion, for which he was honored in 2006 with the Old Hilltop Award for excellence in covering thoroughbred racing from the Maryland Horse Breeders Association.

Mayne joined ESPN as an ESPN2 SportSmash anchor, providing five-minute score and news reports every half-hour, and as a feature reporter for SportsNight.  Beginning in September 1995, he served as the original host of ESPN2’s weekend auto racing news and highlights programs, Sunday morning’s RPM 2Day and RPM 2Night on Saturday and Sunday.  He also occasionally anchored SportsCenter until assuming that role fulltime in August 1997.

Prior to joining ESPN, Mayne had served as a freelance reporter and field producer for the network from 1990-1994.  “During that time,” Mayne says, “I only pursued one full-time television job.  ESPN.  I had the ESPN 800-number and called all the time with story ideas.  I guess they finally decided it was less expensive to hire me than to keep paying for my phone calls.”

Television, however, wasn’t always his primary form of employment.  He had worked at local stations from 1982-1990, but as recently as 1994, Mayne worked in sales for MCI.  Before that his career even included a stint assembling garbage cans.  “I had worked as a garbageman inSeattleduring college,” Mayne recalls, “and when I left local television in 1990, I called my old boss but the industry had passed me by.  They had switched to one-person trucks, so I took a position assembling the garbage cans.”

Mayne began his television career at KLVX-TV (a PBS affiliate) in Las Vegas, Nev., as a reporter in 1982.  He worked for KSTW-TV in the Tacoma/Seattle market from 1982-89, serving as a production assistant (1982-83), news writer (1983-86) and weekend sports anchor and weekday news reporter (1986-89).  As an anchor, Mayne was known for his offbeat style which included his “Dog Days of Summer Score Dog” segment, in which he used his dog to help give baseball scores.

A native of Kent, Wa., Mayne was born September 1, 1959.  He attended Wenatchee Valley Community College (Wenatchee, Wa.), where he was an honorable mention junior college All-American quarterback in 1978.  He was graduated from Universityof Nevada-Las Vegasin 1982 with a bachelor of arts degree in broadcasting.  While at UNLV, Mayne played football for two years and later signed as a free agent with the Seattle Seahawks (1982).  In 2006, he competed on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

Dr. Pataraick Arbore is the Founder and Director of the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief Related Services at Institute on Aging.

Dr. Arbore conducts workshops and presents lectures locally and nationally on aging related subjects including elderly suicide prevention, hoarding, substance abuse, compassion fatigue, communication, depression, traumatic loss, and many others. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including a chapter he co-authored entitled “Suffering and the Caring Professional” in When Professionals Weep: Emotional and Countertransference Responses in End-of-Life Care (2006). He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Human Services Division at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. Patrick has also been a part-time Lecturer in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

Here is how Lisa Campion would describe her work.

I have been a professional psychic for over 20 years, and use a combination of intuition, energy healing and therapeutic techniques to help you understand yourself at deeper and deeper levels. My background includes training in Psychosynthesis and Systems Centered Therapy (a mindfulness technique), Full Spectrum Healing, Reiki, and other vibrational healing techniques.

I think my greatest gift as a healer is to really see people at the soul level. Spending an hour talking to your soul can be a wonderful gift to yourself! I will spend a lot of the session talking to you about what is great about you, helping you connect to your soul and your life’s purpose. And of course talk to you about whatever issues are on your mind. I am above all else practical (for a psychic!) and my hope is that you leave your session with some useful ideas and tools to help you shift your life.

Layne Dalfen, Gestalt Counselor, and dream analyst is a published author, who founded The Dream Interpretation Center in Montreal in 1997. Layne's focus is introducing the general public to the value of decoding our dreams. She does this by teaching easy to grasp ideas about how to uncover the solutions to our current issues that appear in our dreams every night.

She has appeared on over 100 radio shows across America, including CJAD in her hometown, Montreal. She has been featured on numerous TV networks including NBC, ABC, FOX, CTV and CITY TV. Layne has been on The Board of Directors of The International Association for the Study of Dreams. She lectures for the Counseling students at Concordia University and has written articles for magazines. She is also well known at Canyon Ranch Spas in the United States and Rancho La Puerta Spa in Mexico.

Anthony  has experienced and worked on higher levels of consciousness for the past 12 years in connection with a group called "The Council Of Twelve". Anthony's experience is one of a growing number of celebrated cases,  like that of Zev Kolman the Israeli energy healer,  where unusual abilities developed following "higher dimensional" contact.  Anthony's transformation has been described as follows.

"After spending his life building a profession as a master tailor,  his whole world took a stunning turn when he was contacted by the inter-dimensional group often referred to as the Council of Twelve. It’s not the stuff of science fiction, honest. As we are Soul Beings that inhabit a human body, our souls know quite well that we share this Universe with many life forms and expressions.

As humanity makes (the ongoing) shift in  consciousness toward realizing its proper  and balanced place within the Universe commonwealth, these encounters with ‘alien’ beings will become common place. In fact, they happen so often already that as we open our minds and hearts – shift our consciousness – we will create space for others to come forward and share their experience without fear of reproach or worse as has all too often been the case for the past millennia here on planet Earth.

Anthony, however, is one of those Beings who can take it (rejection from the mainstream)  and he really doesn’t care what you think. The generosity of his heart can be felt in the blades of truth he imparts and if he wants us to get just one thing, it is that we are Sovereign Beings, not slaves. Our addiction to this world and its presumed comforts are quickly coming to an end and there is a new beginning unfolding at the same time. His lifelong empathic sensitivity has been enhanced in his recent transformation and consequent spiritual integration.

Contact at info@seeren.me

Sheldon Ginsberg is the author of Evolution’s Hero, a self-help novel designed to help individuals heal themselves and the Collective Unconscious. He is also a Stress Healing Practitioner, healer and CEO of Institute of Energy Based Health. 

For over 14 years, Sheldon has been providing DeStress Therapy™, a service that restores, reboots and revitalizes one’s body and mind. He has provided this service to 5-star resorts and country clubs such as Miami Beach Canyon Ranch, Zoetry’s Parisio de la Bonita 5-star resorts in Cancun, Thunderbird, Tradition, Ironwood and Trilogy in Palm Desert. 

Sheldon has worked with people with spinal cord injuries, patients recovering from strokes, clients with frozen shoulders, multiple sclerosis, emotional anxiety, cancer survivors, children with multiple handicaps and more. 

Sheldon has appeared on San Antonio’s Daytime at 9, Telemundo in Florida and Blog Talk radio, NewsTalk 920 and Savvy Divorced Chicks Radio Show. He has worked with such celebrities as Woody Johnson, philanthropist and owner of the Jets, Joan Severance, actress and supermodel and Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. previous CEO of Seagrams and Warner Music Group as well as vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal. He has lectured to guests at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach and at Zoetry’s Parisio de la Bonita. His articles have appeared in Dare Online Magazine and other health websites.

JACK ANDRAKA is a Maryland high school sophomore who at age 15 invented an inexpensive and sensitive dipstick-like sensor for the rapid and early detection of pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancers. After a close family friend died of pancreatic cancer, Jack (then a ninth grader) became interested in finding a better early-detection diagnostic test. He learned that the lack of a rapid, low-cost early screening method contributed to the poor survival rate among individuals with pancreatic cancer. After thinking further about the problem, he came up with a plan and a budget to put his ideas in motion.

He contacted about 200 research professionals at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health about his plan. He got 199 rejection letters and then finally got an acceptance from Dr. Anirban Maitra, Professor of Pathology, Oncology and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who became his mentor. It was at Dr. Maitra’s lab where Jack developed his test.

The diagnostic method he developed is more than 90 percent accurate in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer's biomarker protein called mesothelin, and earned him the grand prize $75,000 Gordon E. Moore Award – named for Intel’s co-founder – after competing with 1,500 other young scientists from 70 countries. He also won other prizes in smaller individual categories for a total award of $100,500, which he will use towards college. He has formed a company and has applied for both national and international patents.

Since then Jack has won the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Youth Award and has spoken at the Clinton Global Initiative, FutureMed,Chicago Ideas Week, Singularity U, TEDx MidAtlantic, TEDx Redmond, TEDx Orange Coast, TED New York Talent Search, TED Salon London and soon at TED @Long Beach . He has been featured in several documentaries including Morgan Spurlock’s Sundance Film Festival entry “ You don’t know Jack”, Linda Peters’ award winning film “Just Jack” as well on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CNN, BBC, Fox, Rede Record de Televisão and many radio, newspaper and magazine articles around the world

Jack is a member of the National Junior Wildwater Kayak team, a Life Scout and has won numerous awards in national and international math competitions.

Together with physicists Eric Allin Cornell  and Carl Wieman, Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle won the Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating the Bose-Eisenstein Condensate. He is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dr. Ketterle is from Heidelberg, Germany, and earned his Ph.D in experimental molecular spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.

In 1990 he joined the group of  Dr. David E. Pritchard at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).

Appointed in 1993 to the MIT physics faculty,  Dr. Ketterle became the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT in 1998.

Dr. Ketterle serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), and participates in the Distinguished Lecture Series of CEE's flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute (RSI), which Dr. Ketterle's own son Jonas attended in 2003.

A passionate athlete, Dr. Ketterle is also a runner featured in the December 2009 issue of Runner's World's "I'm a Runner". Dr. Ketterle spoke of taking his running shoes to Stockholm when he received the Nobel Prize and happily running in the early dusk