Stuart Orlando Scott was an American sportscaster and anchor on ESPN, most notably on SportsCenter.
40 Facts About Stuart Scott
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Stuart Scott was born in Chicago and resided in the back of London Towne Houses on Chicago's Southeast side.
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Stuart Scott began his career with various local television stations before joining ESPN in 1993.
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In 2007, Stuart Scott had an appendectomy and learned that his appendix was cancerous.
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Stuart Scott 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 age 49.
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Stuart Orlando Scott was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 19,1965, as the son of O Ray and Jacqueline Scott.
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Stuart Scott had a brother named Stephen and two sisters named Susan and Synthia.
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Stuart Scott attended Mount Tabor High School for 9th and 10th grade and then completed his last two years at Richard J Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, graduating in 1983.
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Stuart Scott 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.
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Stuart Scott came up with the phrase "as cool as the other side of the pillow" while working his first job at WPDE.
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From 1990 until 1993, Stuart Scott worked at WESH, an NBC affiliate in Orlando, Florida as a sports reporter and sports anchor.
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Stuart Scott went out and did a piece on the rodeo, and he nailed it just like he would nail the NBA Finals for ESPN.
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Stuart Scott became one of the few African-American personalities who was not a former professional athlete.
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Stuart Scott was a regular in the This is SportsCenter commercials.
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In 2002, Stuart Scott was named studio host for the NBA on ESPN.
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Stuart Scott became lead host in 2008, when he began at ABC in the same capacity for its NBA coverage, which included the NBA Finals.
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Additionally, Stuart Scott anchored SportsCenters prime-time coverage from the site of NBA post-season games.
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When Monday Night Football moved to ESPN in 2006, Stuart Scott hosted on-site coverage, including Monday Night Countdown and post-game SportsCenter coverage.
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Stuart Scott previously appeared on NFL Primetime during the 1997 season, Monday Night Countdown from 2002 to 2005, and Sunday NFL Countdown from 1999 to 2001.
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Stuart Scott covered the MLB playoffs and NCAA Final Four in 1995 for ESPN.
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Stuart Scott appeared in each issue of ESPN the Magazine, with his Holla column.
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Stuart Scott hosted a number of ESPN game and reality shows, including Stump the Schwab, Teammates, and Dream Job, and hosted David Blaine's Drowned Alive special.
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Stuart Scott hosted a special and only broadcast episode of America's Funniest Home Videos called AFV: The Sports Edition.
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Stuart Scott talked in the same manner as fans would at home.
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Stuart Scott never changed his style and ESPN stuck with him.
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Stuart Scott became well known for his use of catch phrases, following in the SportsCenter tradition begun by Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann.
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Stuart Scott popularized the phrase booyah, which spread from sports into mainstream culture.
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Stuart Scott did not shy away from the fact that he was a black man, and that allowed the rest of us who came along to just be ourselves.
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Stuart Scott was married to Kimberly Stuart Scott from 1993 to 2007.
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At the time of his death, Stuart Scott was in a relationship with Kristin Spodobalski.
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Stuart Scott was injured when he was hit in the face by a football thrown during a New York Jets mini-camp on April 3,2002, while filming a special for ESPN, a blow that damaged his cornea.
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Stuart Scott received surgery but afterwards suffered from ptosis, or drooping of the eyelid.
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Stuart Scott was again diagnosed with cancer on January 14,2013.
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Stuart Scott underwent radiation and multiple surgeries as a part of his cancer treatment.
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Stuart Scott never wanted to know what stage of cancer he was in.
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On July 16,2014, Stuart Scott was honored at the ESPY Awards, with the Jimmy V Award for his ongoing battle against cancer, which was his final public appearance before his death.
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Stuart Scott shared that he had had four surgeries in the week prior to his appearance, when he was suffering from liver complications and kidney failure.
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Twenty years ago, Stuart Scott helped usher in a new way to talk about our favorite teams and the day's best plays.
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At the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and at the 2015 ESPY Awards, Stuart Scott was included in the "in memoriam" segment, a rare honor for a sports broadcaster.
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Stuart Scott was laid to rest in Raleigh Memorial Park on January 10,2015, after a private funeral service at Providence Baptist Church.