Kenny Mayne is on the phone. He sounds, well, like Kenny Mayne. Deadpan. Funny. Relaxed. He’s just finished dinner and informs the caller that it was grilled chicken, steak tips, sweet potatoes and cucumber and tomato salad. “Pretty healthy overall, although maybe not the rolls,” Mayne says.
On Monday, Mayne announced on his Twitter feed that he is leaving ESPN. He and management could not agree on salary terms, and you’ll read about that below. Mayne joined ESPN in 1994 and hosted SportsCenter through multiple generations of sports fans. He is one of the quirkiest on-air figures at the company, including producing and starring in an original scripted series on ESPN.com titled Mayne Street, where he played himself in a fictionalized version of life at the center of sports television (That
