Okay, then, how did the SportsCenter Altar start?
The SportsCenter Altar was unveiled in January of 1996 after my roommates, Mike Harrell and Ryan Gillmore, and I decided that we wanted to keep track of all the SportsCenter anchors and the phrases they used. I was just getting into the homepage business, so I decided this might be worth looking at by other people. It started pretty small–five or six anchors with maybe four to five phrases each (I had the individual pictures up there too). However, since the page’s announcement on Yahoo! and other search engines, the several thousand SportsCenter fanatics have helped this list grow into the immensity that it is now. In April of 1996, I spiced up the page with all-new ESPN-like graphics and a better organization of the information, including the Junkies’ Diaries. In January of 1999, the site was moved to its own domain and augmented with database searching and even more SportsCenter styled graphics and colors.
