Kevin Costner joins Shaq and LSU stars at Death Valley

ESPN's sideline montage brings together Hollywood, basketball, baseball and gymnastics, with a familiar college connection running through the guest list.

Channel: ESPN Story of November 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 175,501 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (9,556).

All the stars pulled up to Death Valley for Bama-LSU 😳🔥

Shaq poses for photos in LSU purple, Angel Reese makes her way through a crowd, and Kevin Costner walks past the stadium's purple seats. ESPN's Alabama-LSU celebrity roll call has plenty to fit into a very short visit to Death Valley.

The Short drew roughly 175,000 views in its first day, about eighteen times ESPN's usual start for that format. Its captions eventually give the gathering a superhero billing: "The Avengers."

There is more connecting this group than a sideline invitation. Shaquille O'Neal and Reese both played basketball at LSU, Paul Skenes pitched there, and Livvy Dunne competed for its gymnastics team. The montage catches Skenes and Dunne greeting people together before cutting to UFC fighter Dustin Poirier, posing near the end zone.

One of its final individual appearances belongs to an enthusiastic Japanese LSU supporter, shown hyping up the crowd on the field. The edit then gathers its famous guests into a street scene outside the stadium.

Alabama's victory gives the comments a different emphasis: plenty of viewers turn the celebrity turnout into a setup for talking about LSU's defeat. ESPN's separate Short about Alabama after the win also drew an unusually fast audience, though the star-filled sideline montage had the larger first-day total.

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The numbers

The celebrity montage drew far more first-day views than ESPN's usual Short. Its comment section was also about ten times busier than usual.

the video's first day

usual first day here

9,556

this video

175,501

subscribers

14,600,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

20,934,568,395

views per day

3,086,971

typical day: 4,448,963

the video

views

193,500

likes

2,142

comments

163

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

ESPN

14,600,000

NBC Sports

5,430,000

Bleacher Report

5,080,000

MaxPreps

3,500,000

Whistle

3,220,000

The Pat McAfee Show

3,000,000

As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.