Synopsis:
This sporting comedy provides a novel take on the life and times of young Adam Schwartz (Breckin Meyer), an athletics-obsessed sportscaster whose inner thoughts and fantasies are revealed through personal conversations with sports figures.

The series focuses on Schwartz as he struggles to come to terms with both his love of sports – where there are definite rules and official referees – and his personal life, where there are no designated foul lines.

As the occasional voice of a minor-league baseball team, Schwartz takes a brushback pitch when his longtime girlfriend Eve (Maggie Lawson, "Cheaters") dumps him, but he dusts himself off and gets back into the dating game with the help of his friends, including the attractive and adoring Julie (Miriam Shor), the uncensored David (Bryan Callen, MAD TV), David’s driven wife, Emily (Jennifer Irwin) and Schwartz’ gregarious father, Gene (Richard Kline, Three’s Company), the owner of a sandwich-shop chain.

Three-time Emmy nominee Dondré T. Whitfield (All My Children) stars as Schwartz’s cocky and ambitious agent William Morris.

This ambitious comedy is more than a sports series, maintains creator and executive producer Stephen Engel (NBC’s Just Shoot Me, Mad About You). "You don’t need to know a thing about sports to enjoy this show," says Engel. "If it’s going to work, it has to be a romantic comedy first and foremost."
(description courtesy NBC Entertainment, 2001)

The Cast:
Breckin Meyer as Adam Schwartz
Miriam Shor as Julie Hermann
Bryan Callen as David Cobert
Richard Kline as Gene Schwartz
Jennifer Irwin as Emily
Maggie Lawson as Eve Morris
Dondré T. Whitfield as William Morris
Van Earl Wright as Himself
Kevin Frazier as Himself

Production Credits:
Executive producer: Stephen Engel

Creator: Stephen Engel

Producer: John Ziffren

Directors: Pamela Fryman (pilot)

Writers: Stephen Engel

Director of photography: Peter Smokler

Casting: Carol Goldwasser

Music: Ben Vaughn

Produced by: 20th Century Fox in association with NBC Studios

Airdates:
It airs on NBC, Thursdays at 8:30pm. It debuts on September 20th, 2001.