Black Man of the Day: Stuart Scott (Sportscaster & Cancer Fighter)

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>“<a href="https://twitter.com/Revis24">@Revis24</a>: What a touching speech by Stuart Scott. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AWillToFight?src=hash">#AWillToFight</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverGiveUp?src=hash">#NeverGiveUp</a>” DR...thank you brotha!!</p>&mdash; Stuart Scott (@StuartScott) <a href="https://twitter.com/StuartScott/statuses/490068627714879488">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Most definitely ... best wishes to Scott w/ his ongoing battle ...


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Hope he pulls through. Inspiring attitude :yes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/sports/espn-anchors-private-battle-with-cancer-becomes-a-public-one.html?_r=0

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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — Inside the mixed martial arts studio, Stuart Scott lifted the black T-shirt that read, “Everyday I Fight.” Beneath was a footlong scar that bisected the ESPN anchor’s washboard abs.

“It’s a sign of life,” he said, though it is the spot where cancer surgeons have opened his abdomen three times to remove parts of him.

Scott’s fight continues. He has had 58 infusions of chemotherapy. He recently switched to a pill. But the drugs have not fully arrested the cancer that struck first in 2007, when his appendix was removed. It returned four years later. And it came back again last year. Each recurrence seems more dire, and yet after each, Scott has returned to his high-profile work at ESPN, ensuring that his private fight also has become a public one.

Friends, family, colleagues and strangers ask how he is faring. Yet Scott, 48, says he does not want to know his prognosis.

“I never ask what stage I’m in,” he said recently over lunch. “I haven’t wanted to know. It won’t change anything to me. All I know is that it would cause more worry and a higher degree of freakout. Stage 1, 2 or 8, it doesn’t matter. I’m trying to fight it the best I can.”

Scott’s approach once puzzled Sage Steele, a fellow ESPN anchor and one of his closest friends.

“I’ve asked him on two occasions: ‘What does this mean? What do the doctors say?' ” she said. “And I’m nervous asking it, but after hearing his answer for the second time, I choose not to ask again. I don’t know if I could do it the same way.”

Scott’s sister, Susan, says she understands her brother’s psychology.

“I think he can only live with this by not even incorporating the potential end of it,” she said in a telephone interview from North Carolina. “It’s too weighty. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t think about it, but to let it in starts to validate it and gives it more heft.” But, she added, “Every time I get a call that Stuart’s in the hospital, I have to think about what this means for his mortality, and is this the time?”

Scott’s absences from ESPN are noticeable because he remains one of the network’s most familiar personalities. Hired in 1993, he soon became one of the signature anchors on “SportsCenter” and on the network’s N.F.L. and N.B.A. programming. “SportsCenter” stars like Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen left the network over the years, but Scott has remained. He has always projected a cool vibe, blending hip-hop language and pop culture references with sound effects and catchphrases like “Boo-yah!” and “Cool as the other side of the pillow,” and he has delivered highlights and commentary in youthful outbursts and in the cool, brooding form of a poetry jam.

Recently, during the N.F.L. scouting combine, he used the debate over Johnny Manziel’s quarterbacking future as grist for an antic, one-on-one conversation with himself.

“I don’t need to do that to keep myself engaged,” he said. “I think it’s unique and part of who I am.”

On the air, Scott seems unaffected by three bouts with cancer. His demeanor on “SportsCenter” is unchanged: excitable, energetic, creative, even a bit wild. But his face looks thin, and his colleagues are concerned.

“There are some days when I say, I don’t know how he’s doing it,” said Mark Gross, a senior vice president for production who has known Scott for two decades.

On the night he returned to “Monday Night Countdown” last November in Tampa, Fla., Scott received a text from his sister, who calls him the crown prince of their parents’ four children. It included a quotation from Arthur Ashe: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

“I wasn’t trying to bring him to tears, but I felt, as a family member processing this, each time is scary,” she said. “The last time was really scary.”

A return to a regular routine, like Scott’s traveling to a “Monday Night” location or grappling in an M.M.A. gym, is a significant marker in a cancer survivor’s life. So are the nights he co-anchors “SportsCenter.” But the effort can sap his strength. Soon after returning from his last surgery, Scott frequently needed to lean back in his chair and relax during commercial breaks, often not hearing much of what his producer said.

Steele said that for years Scott had masked his pain when the cameras came on.

“I’ve visited while he’s been getting chemo; it shook me up,” she said. “But then I’d put the TV on at 11 that night, and he’s still Stuart Scott.”

Restoring Energy

Thin but muscular, Scott uses mixed martial arts and high-intensity cross-training workouts to restore the energy that chemotherapy saps from him.

Dressed all in black for a recent workout, he popped in a mouthpiece inscribed with the initials of his daughters, Sydni, 14, and Taelor, 19, and then walked onto the blue and gray padded floor to face Darin Reisler, the sculptured owner of the gym. For 90 minutes, they battled and sparred.

Despite his weakened condition, Scott is skillful, quick and graceful. His breathing grew labored as the workout progressed, but he was happy to be back. He needs the physical contact, he said, the jolt of competitiveness

“Jab! Cross! Hook! Jab!” Reisler shouted. Scott’s punches shot out in quick combinations that smacked off Reisler’s hand pads, echoing in the nearly empty gym.

The kicks came next — three in rapid succession. Then Scott leapt and delivered a flying kick at Reisler. “You kick like an ox,” he told Scott.

Scott and Reisler moved on to chokeholds and arm bars — sometimes both stopped to explain their submissions as if teaching a class — and wrapped up by fighting in a steel cage.

“God, that felt good,” Scott said as he pulled off his custom-made blue helmet and left the cage.

Still, there are indignities and frustrations. After his third surgery last September, his wound did not close for more than two months. During the last few weeks he was attached to a wound VAC, which drained the surgical site. It is “a pretty interesting contraption if it’s not attached to you,” he said.

He was forced to wait five months, until late February, so his abdominal area would not be vulnerable to the kicks, punches and grappling of the Muay Thai and Brazilian jiujitsu he practices. So far, Scott said, his cancer has not spread beyond where it was found. But he would not give a doctor permission to speak about his condition or provide further details. “My colon has been resected,” he said. “But it’s not colon cancer. No doctor has ever said that it has spread to my kidneys or lungs.”

Paul Mansfield, an appendiceal cancer specialist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said the disease has various forms that range from benign to very aggressive.

Although he could not comment directly on Scott’s case, he said that the oral drug that Scott recently switched to, regorafenib, “is fairly toxic.”

Mansfield said: “It doesn’t really create a response in patients but may stabilize things. It’s pretty far down the list of what we’d use.”

Scott said that he had continued to be flexible about the course of his chemotherapy, even considering experimental treatments.

“We’ve talked about doing a clinical study,” he said, “which I might do at some point. We’re going to see what happens with this new drug. And I guess I could go back to my old regimen. There is some evidence that it did some help, but chemotherapy is not an exact medical science. I heard an oncologist say that in the world of oncology, two and two doesn’t equal four, it equals five or six or three.”

Scott speaks frequently about his daughters, with pride and melancholy. He is divorced from their mother and they share custody. Taelor, the 19-year-old, is in college.

When he first learned he had cancer, the girls asked him a lot of questions. Taelor once asked if the cancer would kill him, he recalled. “I said: ‘It could, and that’s why we’re doing everything we can. That’s why I’m taking every medicine I can and that’s why I keep working out so we can keep traveling the way we do and so I can act silly and goofy and keep embarrassing you.' ”

Now the girls ask fewer questions. He figures that they are typical teenagers who prefer not to discuss what scares them.

“I know they worry about it,” he said, “probably more than I want them to.”

As he drove from his recent workout to lunch, he turned on a video of Sydni, the soloist in her school choir, singing the pop song “Skyscraper.”

“I watch this once or twice a day,” he said, as Sydni’s strong, mature voice filled the car’s interior. “She doesn’t like me to play it for people, but I said, ‘Dude, I got bragging rights.' ”

He listened, almost in silence, until she sang the last words.

“The end,” he said, “gives me chills.”

 

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Just lost a good friend to cancer, and like Stuart she was a battler right to her last breath.. It takes a very strong character and inner strength to be a inspiration for millions while ongoing the fight for their lives. I never new the gravity of the situation until I witnessed it up front. But witnessing it pales in to comparison to actually living the life and fighting the fight, everyday..
Rest in Peace brother Scott and let the good fight live on in his spirit...
 

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I know there are folks here that knows fighting or passed from cancer. On a positive note, my pops is on remission after his battle with colon cancer. He stayed positive like Stuart Scott did. He was fighting cancer with Stuart Scott because he use to mention him while he was fighting.

Glad that he was able to bring a hope to those in his situation. Peace go with you brother. The struggle is over.

Fuck cancer!
 

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Just lost a good friend to cancer, and like Stuart she was a battler right to her last breath.. It takes a very strong character and inner strength to be a inspiration for millions while ongoing the fight for their lives. I never new the gravity of the situation until I witnessed it up front. But witnessing it pales in to comparison to actually living the life and fighting the fight, everyday..
Rest in Peace brother Scott and let the good fight live on in his spirit...

Well Said

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“I loved this man. I still love this man, and the fact that he has passed away is absolutely mind-boggling, and a travesty. He battled cancer as bravely as anybody else, and I know there are many people out there who are battling cancer right now… Stuart would want you to know to keep fighting, and that he didn’t lose his battle with cancer. He fought it as bravely as he possibly could. And as you go to bed tonight, flip your pillow over to the cool side, and before you go to sleep — as Stuart would say, when you hit your knees tonight — and pray to the big man for his beautiful daughters who he loved, Taelor and Sydni.”
 

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“I will miss Stuart Scott. Twenty years ago, Stu helped usher in a new way to talk about our favorite teams and the day’s best plays. For much of those twenty years, public service and campaigns have kept me from my family – but wherever I went, I could flip on the TV and Stu and his colleagues on SportsCenter were there. Over the years, he entertained us, and in the end, he inspired us – with courage and love. Michelle and I offer our thoughts and prayers to his family, friends, and colleagues.”​

- President Barack Obama

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I know there are folks here that knows fighting or passed from cancer. On a positive note, my pops is on remission after his battle with colon cancer. He stayed positive like Stuart Scott did. He was fighting cancer with Stuart Scott because he use to mention him while he was fighting.

Glad that he was able to bring a hope to those in his situation. Peace go with you brother. The struggle is over.

Fuck cancer!



Best wishes to your dad, SelfScience. My grandfather battled colon cancer in his 70s and won. Continued good energy to your pops & his status in remission & recovery.
 

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Stuart Scott shows his 'Fight' to the end

You're not always looking for a final score when wading through highlights of a game on ESPN's SportsCenter. Maybe you want to know the details behind the outcome. Or maybe you just like to hear the anchors narrate the highlights because they're each so idiosyncratically good at what they do.

Stuart Scott, who died on Jan. 4 at age 49 after a protracted battle with cancer, was one of the very best storytellers working for the flagship sports broadcast.

Scott mounted upon each highlight montage a crisp percussive delivery with verbal riffs steeped in the freewheeling streetwise eclecticism of Hip-Hop Nation: "Call him butter, 'cause he's on a roll!" "He's as cool as the other side of the pillow!" "And the Lawd says you got to riiiiiise up!" "Holla at a playa when you see him on the street!" And so on.

It didn't matter if the sport Scott was describing was football or tennis, boxing or poker, basketball or stock car racing. People of all races, creeds and nationalities took to his seamless flow of idiomatic catchphrases and sound sports knowledge as if he were a DJ or rap star spinning his own kind of music in America's bars, living rooms and lounges.

Reading Every Day I Fight, Scott's posthumous memoirs, is almost like listening to him speak to you in his familiar baritone, albeit more intimately. (Collaborator Larry Platt, who formerly edited both the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia magazine, proves a capable engineer of Scott's sound.)

In sentences that land like quick, fast jabs against a heavy bag, Scott starts out by telling readers how he got to be Stuart Scott: how he shifted his ambitions from athletics to journalism at the University of North Carolina and overcame initial setbacks to set his own professional agenda at ESPN as both anchor and interviewer. He expresses disdain for what he terms "gotcha journalism" by insisting, "I'll ask tough questions if need be. But they'll be in the service of explaining rather than judging."

Oh, and that "Booyah!" catchphrase? He tells you where that came from — something to do with the way a neighbor described thunder … but you should look for yourselves.

Every Day, on some level, is a print version of one of those SportsCenter recaps where you already know how it turns out — and, considering the grief that greeted the news of Scott's death, you know you're not going to like the ultimate result.

Even so, Scott, as he often did in life, makes you enjoy the ride, even at its rougher points — most of which begin with Chapter Seven, where he recounts the moment, following an emergency appendectomy during a trip to Pittsburgh for a 2007 Monday Night Football game, he found out he had cancer.

The ordeal that follows is recounted in a pattern familiar to other cancer stories with their arcs of anxiety, determination, hope and return to anxiety. Scott's candor and combative energy are what drives his story. He follows the draining ritual of chemotherapy with his own ritual of physical exercise.

"And I mean immediately," he writes. "There were patients at the infusion center who were gaunt and too weak to walk. I wanted to work out for them." He was trying to make a point. "While you kick my butt, cancer, I'm going to kick yours."

Being a conscientious journalist, Scott diligently, unsparingly reports on what was going on inside his head and in his personal life through treatment, remission and the return of the disease.

In recounting every mood swing, every surge of hope and dread, he is imparting a lesson to his daughters, Taelor and Sydni — and to us: "I want them to take every note of every moment and to make them count."

Every Day I Fight

By Stuart Scott with Larry Platt; foreword by Robin Roberts


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Ernie Johnson gave his Sports Emmy to Stuart Scott's daughters

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TNT sportscaster Ernie Johnson won the Sports Emmy for Best Studio Host and gave his award to the daughters of the late Stuart Scott at Tuesday night's awards show.

Scott died at the age of 49 in January after a battle with cancer. He was a longtime SportsCenter anchor who was first diagnosed with the disease in 2007.

After Johnson was announced as Best Studio Host, he called Taelor and Sydni Scott on stage to present them with the award in their father's honor.

Scott was also honored at the Sports Emmys by SportsCenter anchors past and present, who gathered on stage to pay tribute to him.
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ernie Johnson, in an all time class move, gives his Emmy to Stuart Scott's daughters <a href="http://t.co/xZbs37Rseo">pic.twitter.com/xZbs37Rseo</a></p>&mdash; Mike Soltys (@espnmikes) <a href="https://twitter.com/espnmikes/status/595765750893322243">May 6, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>​
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Very cool moment at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SportsEmmys?src=hash">#SportsEmmys</a>. SportsCenter anchors past and present on stage to recognize Stuart Scott <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Booyah?src=hash">#Booyah</a> <a href="http://t.co/pfU89KAHq6">pic.twitter.com/pfU89KAHq6</a></p>&mdash; Chris Law (@ChrisLaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisLaw/status/595739895299231744">May 6, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>​
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ernie Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/tnt">@TNT</a> Won <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SportsEmmy?src=hash">#SportsEmmy</a> best studio host accepts,says &quot;this belongs w Stuart Scott&quot; gives to his children <a href="http://t.co/WNTtY8TXQz">pic.twitter.com/WNTtY8TXQz</a></p>&mdash; Holly Rowe (@sportsiren) <a href="https://twitter.com/sportsiren/status/595767294707507201">May 6, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>​
 

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The V Foundation Announces Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund

The V Foundation for Cancer Research and family members representing Stuart Scott announced a new cancer research fund to honor the memory of Stuart Scott. The Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund will help continue Stuart’s fight against cancer and assist some of the most vulnerable and disproportionately impacted communities battling this horrible disease. The fund is being launched this week in loving remembrance of the longtime ESPN anchor who recently passed away, following his valiant fight against cancer. Even near the end of his life, Stuart was a champion for cancer research and was involved in a clinical trial himself. He was a passionate voice for improving outcomes for African Americans and other minorities with cancer.

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