ESPN Presents: Never Tell Me The Odds

ESPN Presents: Never Tell Me The Odds is ESPN's official Star Wars show, which debuted on April 26, 2023 and is hosted by Arda Öcal, Ryan McGee, and Clinton Yates. Previous guests of the show include Carl Weathers and Billy Dee Williams. The show aims to explore and celebrate Star Wars while simultaneously connecting it to sports and it consists of 13 episodes as of July 2024.

In February 2024, the trio did a live show from Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida during the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team's Star Wars Night. Footage from the show's trip to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge also aired on ESPN TV.

The show's co-host Öcal frequently documents Star Wars crossovers, such as Star Wars Nights at sporting events. In 2024, he unveiled Dave Filoni's latest jersey design for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins hockey team's Annual Star Wars Night, which was Ahsoka Tano–themed. Öcal has also hosted episodes of SportsCenter across platforms while dressed up as Grand Admiral Thrawn and a TED Talk discussing Star Wars and Thrawn in the final third of the speech.

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