Stuart Orlando Scott was an American sportscaster and anchor on ESPN, most notably on SportsCenter. Well known for his hip-hop style and use of catchphrases, Scott was also a regular for the network in its National Basketball Association and National Football League coverage. In 2007, Scott had an appendectomy and learned that his appendix was cancerous. After going into remission, he was again diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and 2013. He died in 2015 at the age of 49.
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Stuart Orlando Scott was an American sportscaster and anchor on ESPN, most notably on SportsCenter. Well known for his hip-hop style and use of catchphrases, Scott was also a regular for the network in its National Basketball Association and National Football League coverage. In 2007, Scott had an appendectomy and learned that his appendix was cancerous. After going into remission, he was again diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and 2013. He was honored at the ESPY Awards in 2014 with the Jimmy V Award for his fight against cancer, less than six months before his death in 2015 at the age of 49. Scott was inducted into the Richard J. Reynolds High School Hall of Fame during a ceremony on February 6, 2015, which took place during the ReynoldsMt. Tabor basketball game. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and was part of the on-air talent at WXYC. In 1987, Scott graduated from the UNC with a B. A. in speech communication. After graduation, Scott worked as a news reporter and weekend sports anchor at WPDE-TV in Florence, South Carolina from 1987 until 1988. From 1990 until 1993, he worked at WESH, an NBC affiliate in Orlando, Florida as a sports reporter and sports anchor. He became one of the few African-American personalities who was not a former professional athlete. His first ESPN assignments for SportsSmash were a short sportscast twice an hour on ESPN2’s SportsNight program.
After Keith Olbermann left SportsCenter, Scott took his place in the anchor chair at SportsNight. Scott also began on ABC as lead host for their coverage of the NBA. From 1997 until 1997, Scott anchored SportsCenter’s prime-time coverage of NBA Finals, which included the NBA-season post-season games. In 2002, Scott became a regular in the SportsCenter is This is This studio host for the NBA on ESPN. In 2008, when he became lead host in 2008, he also began in the same capacity for its NBA Finals coverage on ABC. Scott came up with the phrase “as cool as the other side of the pillow” while working his first job at W PDE. He earned first place honors from the Central Florida Press Club for a feature on rodeo. In 2001, Scott gave the commencement address at UNC. Scott had a brother named Stephen and two sisters named Susan and Synthia. He had a son named Stephen, who was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 19, 1965 as the son of O. Ray and Jacqueline Scott. When he was 7, Scott and his family moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from Mount Tabor High School for 9th and 10th grade and then completed his last two years of high school in 1983. While at UNC, Scott also played wide receiver and defensive back on the football team. He also served as Vice President of the Student Council, and was the Sergeant at Arms of the school’s Key Club.
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