A flagship sports newscast on ESPN, SportsCenter Asia was based on the American counterpart, broadcast every weeknight at 7:30 p.m. for 30 minutes, with repeats at 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Hong Kong-time in Southeast Asia, (except in the Philippines where it was broadcast at 9:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m on delay) and at 8:30 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. across India, SportsCenter drew on the worldwide resources of ESPN.
SportsCenter Asia covered mostly football, but it also showed highlights of the NBA, tennis, baseball, Formula One, and golf.
Other past anchors of the program include Uday Joshi, Bethan Evans, Cheryl Liew, David Basheer, and Arnold Gay.
ESPN International football commentator Dave Roberts returned to Singapore in late 2011 to take over as Senior Executive Producer for SportsCenter and other news and production programs before leaving in early 2015.
Fox Sports in Taiwan used to produce a local edition in Mandarin Chinese from the studios in Taipei.
Former SportsCenter personalities Rashid Salleh and Edleen Ismail soon departed from ESPN to join Astro, along with many technical and production staff.
Senior managers Huw Bevan and Sharon Van Zwieten, visiting from Singapore, read off a prepared script to dismiss each staff member, one-by-one.