I really think that inspired other people to do the same thing. Hoge: I understand why he did it. One of the things that can spiral you out mentally is not just the wait of it.
And having a purpose matters in that process. The image in your mind is that smile of his, the jokes, the one-liners, the stories. It was just something that he had. His thinking was, Cancer is going to have to work around what I do.
But we also had some talks, real talks, late at night in the hall. We talked about relationships, we talked about loss, we talked about kids. Do I miss sitting out there and yammering about sports? Not as much as I miss in the morning. Where are you napping in your office? In July , Scott walked into a restaurant in West Hartford and saw Kristin Spodobalski, who worked at an insurance company. He was 46; she was They began a relationship that would last the rest of his life.
Spodobalski: It was his birthday weekend. He asked me for my number. Gallagher: When they traveled, you could see it in their eyes and hear it in their voices.
It was pure love. Watching them holding hands—it was the way love should be. A real long time. Spodobalski: We always had to be matching. It was me and Stuart against my sister and my dad. Stephen Scott: I adore Kristin. Steele: Kristin is one of my heroes for what she did every single day. She is an angel. He started receiving chemo again. Gallagher: They had to have that tough talk.
Do you really want to be around for me when I get sick? I just had never seen him more vulnerable, ever. Steele: I have a picture—I saw it yesterday—of the day we moved out of our house in Canton, Connecticut. He and Kristin came over. My son Nicholas—he was 10—had to say goodbye to his best friend across the street.
He was sobbing. Spodobalski: We sort of made a pact to live, whatever that meant, on a daily basis. If we had the opportunity to travel, we traveled. We went to Puerto Rico—Dorado Beach. We would go to Laguna Beach, or take Sydni on vacation.
We went to Hawaii. When we went to Rome, it was after a Monday Night game. We left directly from there to Rome in the morning. We hired a tour guide and we did all of Rome in three days. Taelor Scott: When your time is limited, I think that that makes the things that you do—you focus on them so much more. Spodobalski: We went to Florida. We got his closest friends together.
We had two rules for the five days that we were together. No one was to speak of cancer, period. And we were supposed to drink a lot of great wine. You could really hurt somebody! I have a wonderful job that I love getting up for every day.
Why not me? Spodobalski: He wanted to continue working. He wanted to be able to do that with the comfort of having not only myself by his side, but for me to have all of the history and the medical knowledge in case something happens so that we were ready to take charge at any point. So I wrote my letter of resignation [from her job]. Van Pelt: In breaks, he used to sit back, arms folded, eyes closed. It was sort of Zen. But I was concerned. He was right back like Stuart Scott.
Roy Williams, University of North Carolina basketball coach: I called him periodically just to touch base. Spodobalski: If we woke up and it was a good day, then maybe cancer was way, way at the back of the stadium. If we woke up and there was pain or a stomachache, then maybe cancer was sitting in the orchestra that day. We lived with it as it showed up. I got it. How you doing today? Probably depressed for the first time in my life.
In pain. Starting radiation Thursday. A new group of anchors had come into the network. Some were black, some were white; there were men and women. Bell: I remember using some of those catchphrases in the high school cafeteria. It became part of the culture. It became part of your regular vernacular. To see him do it at the level he did it, it gave you hope. It actually planted a seed in my head. My second thought was, Hey, I just said that yesterday with my buddies.
Smith: He normalized it. He normalized seeing an unapologetic, authentic African American man in a high-profile position on television. He was right about all of it. You can do this and this and this.
Stuart Scott believed in me long before I believed in myself. Stuart was an inspiration for anybody who just wanted to be themselves. So why would I be anything other than myself? Why would I have any fear? Now, just standing onstage seemed almost impossible. The week before the speech, a clinical trial led to four surgeries and kidney failure.
I need you there for that. Skipper: We debated internally about whether we could give it to somebody who worked for the company. The consensus became, who could be unhappy with this? Stephen Scott: There had been times that week before when it was like, will he make it through the week? They chartered one of the Disney planes just for us. I needed him to have a bed.
We were able to actually rest and lay down. He was still bandaged up in order to be on stage. Okmin: He let me throw a party to just let us celebrate him and love on him.
We sat outside and he let Kristin put a blanket over him, and he sat with the blanket. Storm: Then he gets onstage and delivers this incredible, incredible, iconic speech. This is my goodbye. Eaves: As much as I hated to admit to myself, it was a goodbye speech. That took so much out of him. In seven years battling cancer, Scott had had 58 chemotherapy treatments and more than a half-dozen surgeries; his colon had been resected; he had a wound VAC.
In September, he began a day hospital stay in New York. Spodobalski: September 12th to the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I came with flip-flops and left with borrowed winter coats and earmuffs. It was killing him.
I refused not to let him see it. I FaceTimed the whole game to him. Taelor Scott: I was in school in New York, so I reduced my class load at the time so I could go down and see him in the hospital. I got to really ask him any questions uninterrupted. That was very valuable. Gallagher: They came to visit him. He always bounced up. It was like an adrenaline rush to him. He protected them by showing how strong he was.
Okmin: You know what else he was doing? He was taking on [Twitter] trolls. Gallagher: He was just about to be released.
It was the most comforting thing. I always said I was filling in for him. It was still his show. Tindal: We were outside throwing the football around one day. Hit me. Of course, I overthrew him.
He just sat on the curb. I walked over there, picked him up, and walked him back inside. He knew this might be one of the last times that we would see each other. You can find out. Van Pelt: One night, I went home and sent him a text. I had a procedure this morning and I was skirred. We do feel that shit from wherever away. I can feel people praying for me. I can feel the love for me and that really matters. But this was a gift. I needed this.
Tindal: He called me up in December Actually, Kristin did. He wants you and Laura Okmin. Okmin: I lost my mom when I was younger. Do you think your mom will know what I look like? Ramsey: I remember Suzy Kolber telling me right before Stu died that he was going home for Christmas.
It never occurred to me that he was going home to spend one last Christmas with his daughters. Sydni Scott: Usually, Christmastime was when he was running around the house with the cape made of tinsel or something. He was very tired. He participated in the gift exchange.
He wanted a hat and gloves. So my mom printed out this little picture of it. We went over and we were watching football. He had just had lunch with Taelor. It was a beautiful lunch. Because parenting is No. Ice cream is not breakfast. I need more time with them. Spodobalski: Toward the end, we would be in the house. Scott died on January 4, Barack Obama issued a statement. The NFL observed a moment of silence before playoff game games. Who leaves a hospital procedure to return to the set?
Scott joined ESPN in for the launch of ESPN2, quickly moving up the ranks as one of the network's main SportsCenter anchors thanks to his rapid-fire delivery and unique phrasing to describe highlights. While Scott might not have invented the term "Boo-yah," he certainly popularized. By , Scott was ubiquitous among the network's programming. It was a workload he'd do his best to maintain during several recurrences of cancer, a diagnosis which first appeared during an emergency appendectomy in The disease reappeared in , when Scott announced on Twitter that he was undergoing chemotherapy.
He never revealed what kind of cancer he was fighting, and told the New York Times in March that it was not colon cancer. By the time the illness reemerged in December , Scott began to share more public details about his plight. As for Stuart's most famous line, Eisen discovered one night that it was not what's up on the wall in the new studio. Recalls Eisen: "He would write down the catchphrases on the specific portion of the highlight, so I would watch him do this, and it wasn't 'Boo-Yah,' it was 'Boo-Yow.
He was a technician when it came to that sort of thing. I remember being jarred, and when I asked him about it, he thought I was making fun of him. But I wasn't. Occasionally, Stuart would give a shout-out to Sydni's soccer team, but that was easy compared to another commitment he made to his daughters. I'll never forget him coming out in this big cape, swooping in with his nutcracker, and he was great.
I'm not sure the dance steps were up to Baryshnikov, but certainly the intentions were. For those not up on their Tchaikovsky, Uncle Drosselmeyer is the toymaker who brings the tableau to life at midnight -- sort of what Stuart did in Bristol. Anderson calls it "magic. A classic talent like Vin Scully might ask you to pull up a chair. Stuart would bring you a beer and introduce you to Tiger or Michael or Peyton. Ten years later, Levy watched a different kind of warrior go to work.
We'd be waiting for a game to end, and he'd close his eyes. That wasn't the Stuart Scott that I worked with for so many years. And yet, when the red light came on, when he was on camera, you had no idea.
He never slipped. His ability never slipped, and the audience at home couldn't tell what Stuart was dealing with. I'm trying to fight it the best I can. On June 15, , Stuart flawlessly handled the trophy presentation to the Spurs -- after doing push-ups that day.
A month later, as Steele watched Stuart climb the steps to the stage at the ESPYS, she worried about whether he could deliver his speech. This is Stuart and he's not going to let this moment get away. Raw and honest, powerful and indelible. He owned it, just like he owned every sportscast, every 'SportsCenter,' every 'Monday Night Football' show he did. He owned it. Since that night, "You beat cancer by how you live" has become a rallying cry for millions of patients and their families.
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