Adam Wall

Stewart Scott

 

Stewart Scott changed the sports world. He had such a lively expression and attitude towards life. He reflected that attitude on the TV screen when he joined ESPN in 1993. With his bombastic commentating, he made sports more interesting; he boosted and made ESPN what it is today. With his amazing and memorable side comments such as “Booyah” and “As cool as the other side of the pillow”, he brought smiles to his audience. This week, Steward after battling cancer, died at the age of 50, he had 2 daughters which he loved and support of sports fans around the country. If you want to here more about his story with cancer, I highly suggest watching his speech when receiving the Jimmy V award. He talks about his fight with cancer and it is very inspiring. ESPN also did a nice 15 minute tribute to him that I also suggest watching.

           Sports are a very close knit community, especially ESPN. Commentators and newscasters are popular, really popular. They can become common names in the household, if you watch sports enough, you can learn their styles, the way they speak and talk during a show. Stephan A. Smith is extremely passionate and a little bit too much sometimes, Chris Berman has an active voice that can get anyone’s attention, they’re all different. It’s odd, you can learn a lot about the person even when they’re just relaying highlights and facts from the game. As a big sports fan, I never realize how much I hear these people, see their faces, I feel connected to them. I feel like I really know the people talking behind the screen. It hit me that I’m going to miss Stewart, I’m going to miss hearing his enthusiastic voice as he talks about Lebron or golf or something even though I know little to nothing about the guy. I really do respect the guy though; his speech and his philosophy on life really motivate me and make me think of what a great guy he was.