Most of my favorite commercials these days come from ESPN. The “This Is SportsCenter” commercials are hilarious. My current favorite is the Manning family touring the ESPN campus. They did a great job with that one. The stern look Archie gives the boys as he glances back at them is classic.

They’ve had so many in the past I can’t recall all of them (I’m sure there’s a list somewhere.) A few I recalled and found on youTube were:

• Y2K (one of my favorites)
• Steve Irwin and the Florida Gator
• Pete Sampras
• International SportsCenter
• Spinoffs

During football season, College GameDay has had a number of good ones, too. Now, I’m enjoying a current commercial being shown regularly by the basketball version of GameDay. It features the GameDay crew - Rece Davis, Digger Phelps, Hubert Davis and Jay Bilas - having lunch at what appears to be a school cafeteria. Davis, of course, is a former UNC player, and Bilas a former Duke player. Here’s the commercial:

But, if you’re talking rivalry, the ESPN commercials I like the most of late are the ones from the “Never Graduate” series. Here’s a list of several great rivalries seen in these commercials.

• OSU - Michigan (includes another OSU-Michigan spot as well)
• Alabama - Auburn
• Texas - Texas A&M
• UCLA - USC

My favorite, of course, depicts the greatest rivalry in college sports - Duke vs Carolina basketball:

By the way, only UNC fans recognize 1924. Everyone else says they only have 4 national titles. Just thought I’d throw that in.