Why stuart scott

Howard Cosell brought personality to the field. Lesley Visser, Bryant Gumbel and others smashed glass ceilings. Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick brought jovial irreverence. But it was Scott who looked at the profession and doused it with hot sauce. As hip-hop was shoehorning its way into mainstream, Scott -- with his "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" fade and urban vernacular -- was one of its leading ambassadors.

Though he was so much more than a young black sports anchor at the right time at the right place. He was a workhorse, a personable interviewer and a nimble reporter. The creative insight wrapped around one of his popular catchphrases, "as cool as the other side of the pillow," showed he was a talent who didn't sacrifice journalistic integrity just to bring barbershop talk to television.

His humorous flashes of black Americana didn't appeal to everyone and his critics were not shy about sending him letters to let him know. But for those of us who longed for a soundtrack to accompany the soul of the new generation of black athletes who were redefining how big-time sports were played, Scott was a welcomed and masterful composer. And the music he made was a sound that today is repeatedly mimicked.

Sometimes by earnest youngsters who have no idea who dared to change the game, like someone's classic hip-hop playlist without the Sugarhill Gang. Rich Eisen's tearful tribute to Stuart Scott My friends and I watched Scott in college at night and would use his catchphrases -- such as "booyah" -- to trash-talk each other on the court the next day.

And when I finally did get to introduce myself, I was so nervous, I tripped over my own name. Stuart advised us to be fearless in contacting anyone who might further the effort to awaken people to the recognition that growth economics, based on greed and consumption, is destroying our planet.

Instead, he advocated a no-growth, cyclical economy based on ecological economics. There you will also find his many conversations with ecologists, nuclear engineers, economists, and environmental scientists. More of his work, action ideas, and commentary are on the website, FacingFuture. He leaves his dedication to preserving the planet to the experienced hands of his colleagues at FacingFuture. The International Society for Ecological Economics.

Skip to content. Additionally, he advocated ecological economics by founding The Circle of Elders of Ecological Economics in as an antidote to the illusion of endless growth on a finite planet, Indeed, educating the public about the climate crisis and offering a solution via ecological economics are his everlasting legacies, which live on in his name by way of several venues he established, but most importantly in the hearts of countless people throughout the world who were touched by his work.

Eisen was there at the birth of his fame. Stuart and I had to do the 11 o'clock 'SportsCenter,' so with a lead foot, we got to Times Square at around 2 in the morning, and the party at the All-Star Cafe with Gretzky and Shaq and Tiger is letting out. A cop gives us the coordinates for the afterparty, and now we're walking to 33rd and 10th Avenue Stuart walking down the street was like Elvis entering the building.

People were stopping us every two feet. I'll never forget when one person went up to Stuart and me and said, 'Hey, wow, Stuart Scott! I love you, the white guy! What we didn't know, until Stuart got here, was how important it was to have someone who could relate to them.

He 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. Soul, period. Some of his best moments on the air came when he adopted the persona of a preacher: "Can I get a witness from the congregation?! There were times in the last few years when his friends worried that he was working too hard. Yes, he would reference Tupac, but he also would quote Shakespeare: "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

And occasionally, he would bust out his own poetry, as he did for this jam on Michael Jordan's 50th birthday on Feb. 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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