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Casey tries to find the courage to ask Dana on a date. Jeremy and Natalie have a fight after Natalie is offered a job in Galveston. Isaac is back at work, but the stroke appears to be affecting his job performance.

There’s a rumour going around that the network is bringing in a ratings consultant to rejig the show. Isaac shocks everybody by announcing that not only is the rumour true, it wasn’t the network’s idea — it was his. He introduces Sam Donovan to the staff, but nobody trusts him. Dana decides that Casey, who hasn’t been on even one date since the breakup of his marriage to Lisa, should date other people for six months before they begin a relationship with each other. Dan attends a Democratic Party fundraiser, and subsequently tries to track down Hillary Clinton to clarify his comments on education funding after learning that he got two words confused and told her the opposite of what he really meant.

Sam Donovan’s presence has everyone on edge. Dana considers leaving the show, because she feels like she’s being held responsible for the show’s problems. A meeting with network executives escalates into a crisis which has the team on the verge of quitting, but Sam deftly defuses the situation.

Jeremy gets nervous when he discovers that Natalie is writing to his sister Louise. The network sets up a web poll to ask whether Dan or Casey is cooler, and Casey asks Jeremy to help him manipulate the votes. Dana goes out for dinner with an old high school friend, and nobody (not even Dana) can figure out why she took off her underwear in the middle of dinner.

After meeting an attractive woman and learning that she’s a psychologist, Dan obsesses over whether she was interested in dating him or taking him on as a therapy client. Jeremy accidentally blacks out the entire studio while trying to run Y2K tests on the production board.

The Vatican has declared that Hell isn’t real, and Natalie struggles to understand why she should bother being a good person if there’s no eternal punishment for sin. Casey interviews an old friend, baseball player Shane McArnold, but Dana won’t let him clean up the tape to bury Shane’s bigoted comments about New York City. After Dan and Jeremy spend over an hour recording and rerecording a ten-second commercial voiceover because Dan can’t say Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Dan thinks he may need therapy after all.

Dana is beaming with pride after her brother Kyle, a professional football player, gets two sacks in a game on Monday Night Football. Dana sends Casey to Ohio to investigate an imminent steroid scandal, not knowing that her brother is one of the players involved. Jeremy is nervous about firing an incompetent employee in the video library who happens to be J.J’s cousin.

Kyle is coming to town after his suspension is announced, and Dana’s pretty much ready to kill him. Everyone is shopping for their office Secret Santa gifts, and Casey is mystified when Isaac says he wants a cheese grater. With the turn of the millennium just days away, the team is still struggling to decide who to name as the athlete of the 20th century.

Jeremy is nominated for a sports journalism award that Natalie knows he’s not going to win. After fighting Dana’s dating plan, Casey finally goes out on a date with a girl named Pixley, and Dana begins to have second thoughts.

Dan wants to do a feature report on the Shot Heard ’Round the World, but Isaac refuses to be interviewed for it even though he was at the game. Dan thinks Isaac is embarrassed about his speech having been slowed down since the stroke, but in reality Isaac is embarrassed to admit that he missed the home run because he was in the bathroom. Dana is even more freaked out when Casey goes on a second date with Pixley.

Dan’s perennially disapproving father is in town for a visit. The team is preparing to cover a heavily hyped boxing match, but must contend with an annoyingly dense on-site reporter who insists on being addressed as Cut Man. The match ends in less than a minute, because the underdog goes down for the count on the very first punch, and the team has to improvise to fill the whole hour. Dana and Casey argue about the dating plan.

Sports Night is offered an exclusive interview with Michael Jordan, but the team struggles to accept the strict conditions attached: they can’t ask him about sports at all, but only about his new line of cologne. The Michael Jordan interview was only offered to them out of the perception that they would be the only one of the major sports networks desperate enough for the ratings to agree to Jordan’s conditions, but Sam tells Isaac and Dana that they are not. Casey is invited to speak to Charlie’s class, but can’t figure out what to talk about.

Natalie and Jeremy fight over going to a nightclub. Dan has the night off, but the substitute anchor is morose and keeps making comments on the air to his girlfriend instead of reading the teleprompter. Dana is conflicted after she inherits an antique Revolutionary War gun.

Jeremy and Natalie’s breakup begins to impact the show after Jeremy asks for his stuff back. Casey is temporarily blinded from an eye test, and Dan takes the opportunity to play practical jokes on him. After a riot breaks out at Madison Square Garden, Natalie objects to the show turning over its film of the event to the police.

After being excluded from a staff game night because Natalie was organizing it, Jeremy goes to a bar and befriends Jenny, but panics when he realizes that she’s a porn actress. Isaac is upset that he can’t remember the lyrics to a song from a Broadway show.

Dan decides to skip his therapy appointment, but spends the entire length of a normal appointment in his therapist’s office explaining why. Jeremy e-mails Jenny to apologize for blowing her off, but then meets up with her in person only to explain why he’s not going to see her again. Casey tries to bribe the gang to watch a track and field event with him in the middle of the night.

Casey and Dana compete with each other over their NFL draft predictions. Dan has a golf date with PGA star David Duval, but work might keep him from being able to go. Jeremy tells Natalie about Jenny, except for the part about her being a porn star. Casey and Dan are angry with each other and their professional relationship might be in trouble.

Jenny is coming to visit the studio, but Jeremy is afraid of what Natalie will think of her. Dan makes Casey look foolish on the air.

Due to network cutbacks, the show’s Olympic coverage is going to be limited and Natalie may be about to lose her job. Dan holds a Passover Seder and makes up for his inappropriate on-air behavior toward Casey.

Natalie gets a job interview with Saturday Night Live, but Dana wants everyone to undermine her confidence so that she won’t get the job and leave the Sports Night team. Dan’s publicist wants him to make a public appearance in New Jersey. Isaac is upset because his grandson has been scared of him ever since the stroke. Casey and Jeremy decide to investigate CSC’s financial situation, but make an unsettling discovery in the process: the network might be up for sale.

Everybody begins to plan what they’ll do if CSC is sold and they lose their jobs. Dan and Casey debate a job with a television station in Los Angeles. Dana meets a mysterious stranger who seems to be following the CSC bidding war unusually closely; his advice to Dana is to ask her staff, "Where are we going?"

Everyone prepares for the worst as the sale of CSC draws closer. Dan wants to go to Los Angeles, but Casey decides not to. Dan’s decision is complicated when Rebecca returns and wants to get back together. An unforeseen bidder, Quo Vadimus, suddenly puts in a new bid for CSC. When Jeremy tells Dana that Quo Vadimus means "Where are we going?", she suddenly realizes that her mysterious new friend is Calvin Trager. She rushes out to find him and he confirms that he has bought CSC and plans to keep Sports Night on the air.