Championship Analysis

I know it's a rival network, but I have to say the best, absolute best color commentary I've ever heard on any sport, comes from the Wimbledon team of John McEnroe and Mary Carillo (left). I've had the pleasure of watching their Wimbledon coverage every morning this week, and McEnroe and Carillo are tremendous.
They are insightful about the game, obviously the result of their backgrounds as former professional tennis players. But they don't live in the past. They obviously do their homework on today's players, and are full of anecdotes and stories about seemingly obscure young stars like China's Zheng Jie, or England's Andy Murray.
Moreover, they are funny. They are not afraid to poke fun at each other or at the sometimes archaic customs of Wimbledon. McEnroe, a bona fide tennis Hall of Famer, never acts stiff or "above it all." Today, he launched into a Maxwell Smart (Don Adams version) imitation, when he said Zheng Jie "missed it by that much."
Together, McEnroe and Carillo comprise television's best color analysts--smart, funny, and very interested in making the sport entertaining.