Stuart Scott
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| Stuart Scott | |
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| Born | July 19 1965 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Occupation | Sportscaster |
| Website | Stuart Scott at ESPN |
Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965) is an American sportscaster for ESPN, most visibly as an anchor on SportsCenter.
Scott was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC and later the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) where he was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and on-air talent at student-run radio station WXYC. Scott graduated from UNC in 1987 with a bachelor of arts in speech communication. Following graduation he worked as a reporter at WPDE-TV Florence S.C., WRAL-TV 5 in Raleigh, North Carolina from 1988-1990 and 1990-1993 to WESH in Orlando, Fl. In 1993, he left NBC affiliate WESH in Orlando, FL to join ESPN, then two years later, the cast of SportsCenter, and has been there since. Scott lives with his wife Kim and his two daughters in Connecticut.
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[edit] Style
At SportsCenter Scott was part of a duo with Rich Eisen which made both famous. His use of non-standard English elevated his profile as a sports broadcaster, but also made him the target of criticism. Scott's supporters insist his style effectively taps into and regurgitates the hip-hop language and culture of a youth demographic critical to ESPN's ratings success. But some observers see it as contrived, overwrought faux-hipness with nothing more than a marketing-inspired persona. Others have condemned Scott for plagiarism. One of his most famous oft-repeated phrases, "he's as cool as the other side of the pillow", was lifted from at least one other sports commentator (Wayne Walker, former NFL great and analyst for the San Francisco 49ers' radio broadcasts, occasionally used this line throughout the 1980s to characterize the composed play of legendary quarterback Joe Montana. It has not been confirmed that Scott has publicly acknowledged Walker's authorship or prior usage of this phrase) :[1] Tim Meadows and Finesse Mitchell parodied him on Saturday Night Live.
[edit] Television shows
Besides SportsCenter, Scott has been the host of a number of television shows. He recently hosted the ESPN series Dream Job, the network's talent search for a new SportsCenter anchor. Scott hosted the live special of David Blaine's "Drowned Alive" stunt in 2006. Stuart also hosted the ESPN/ESPN Classic game shows "Stump the Schwab" (2004-present) and "Teammates" (summer 2005).
[edit] Eye injury
Scott had a couple of cornea transplants when he was younger. But, in 2002, Scott had been invited to join in the New York Jets pre-season training camp by head coach Herm Edwards. Scott was filming a story about football minicamps for ESPN. He was struck in the left eye by a football that was launched from a Jugs football passing machine during receiver drills. He had to undergo corneal surgery that same evening and was out of work for a couple months. Now he wears thick glasses and has the teleprompter moved closer.
[edit] Illness
According to ESPN, Stuart had an emergency appendectomy in Pittsburgh after becoming ill while covering the Pittsburgh Steelers-Miami Dolphins Monday Night Football game on November 26, 2007. The surgery also discovered a malignancy that required an additional surgery to resect possibly cancerous tissue. He returned a month later and will continue on-air during recommended preventative chemotherapy.[2]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Movies
- He Got Game (1998)
- Enchanted (1998)
- Drumline (2002)
- Mr. 3000 (2004)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
[edit] TV commercials
- Heineken beer
- Brinker International Chili's restaurants
- Johnson & Johnson Tylenol analgesic
- T-Mobile
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- ESPN bio of Stuart Scott
- USA Today article about Stuart Scott entitled "Boo-yah or just boo?"
- Stuart Scott at the Internet Movie Database
- Issue 44 -- Television Sportscasters (African-American)
- NPR Interview transcript: Is Stuart Scott Frontin'?
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