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. In announcing the findings of a post-mortem lung biopsy, fiancee Katy Berteau said Wednesday: He would have wanted everyone to know that something way bigger than pneumonia took him down., Both pneumonia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma can trigger HLH in the body, and that is seemingly what happened with Edward, she said. College Basketball Analyst, SEC Network. "That's what I love about him," says Kolber. This was all new territory. The confines of a studio could not hold Stuart. Berteau had written in a Twitter thread last month that Aschoff was admitted to the hospital a week after being diagnosed with multifocal pneumonia. Clayton's pursuit of news and information was done with such fervor that, as ESPN's Chris Mortensen said, "Anyone paying attention walked away a little more educated. We have been friends since 1986. 5/29/89 ESPN coverage, lead by @cbfowler and the late, great John Saunders, of Phillies 3B Mike Schmidt hanging them up after 18 seasons. Larkin, 26, leads the Red Wings in scoring this season with 22 goals and 35 assists for 57 points in 59 games. And Stuart tweets, 'You may have scored, but I sent you to the hospital.' ", Gus Ramsey, who arrived in Bristol in 1994, remembers exactly when he knew Stuart had found a new audience. He was as popular on campus as he was in the airports he passed through and on the sidelines he worked over the last 22 years. The cause of death was not immediately . Lokulo-Sodipe, 67, was said to have slumped in his office while preparing to attend a court session on . Rosaforte was only . Now his fiance has revealed that, though he did not know it, Aschoff had stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in his lungs. Nobody could ever say he didn't work hard, or labor over his "SportsCenter" lead-ins. Michael Dwyer - staff, AP. Reporter Jeff Dickerson, who covered the Chicago Bears for two decades during his tenure at ESPN, died Tuesday from complications from colon cancer. ESPN Reporter Edward Aschoff's tragic death on his 34th birthday last month was the result of an un-diagnosed case of stage 4, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma . "One year we went to their performance of 'The Nutcracker.' Dickerson, who covered the Chicago Bears for the network, died just two years after his wife Caitlin passed away from melanoma, leaving their 11-year-old son Parker orphaned. 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 year. "But then I reminded myself, 'Hello, who are you talking about here? What I love about it is there's so much more stuff we didn't have access to years ago and now we do -- the salary information, NFL Game Rewind where you can watch coaches tape. ESPN knew enough to have sportscasters who represented 45 million Americans, not to mention 80 percent of the players in the NBA and 70 percent of those in the NFL. ESPN college football reporter Ed Aschoff died Tuesday at age 34, the company announced. "It has helped me knowing that his passing was inevitable, and Im at least grateful he didnt have to go through the painful treatment and drawn out process of battling the disease,'' Katy Berteau wrote about Edward Aschoff's condition. Unfortunately, their enjoyable afternoon turned deadly in a matter of seconds. What will the Buffalo Bills do without defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier? & 2020 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. Stephen Smith was a 19-year-old boy. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell honored Clayton as a "wonderful person" who "earned my tremendous respect and admiration as a journalist. And here comes Uncle Drosselmeyer, and I thought, 'That man looks a lot like Stuart Scott,' and it was -- he was there for his girls. "He was a trailblazer," says ESPN anchor Stan Verrett, "not only because he was black -- obviously black -- but because of his style, his demeanor, his presentation. He spent 22 years as an NFL writer and reporter for ESPN, but was let go in 2017 as a part of the companys mass layoffs. And I'm really thrilled that he was right on. His ability never slipped, and the audience at home couldn't tell what Stuart was dealing with. He was 89. "He just takes so much pride in the girls, and you can't see him without him taking out his phone and showing you a video of Taelor or Sydni singing or dancing or playing soccer. Michelle and I offer our thoughts and prayers to his family, friends, and colleagues," the president said. "They're thoughtful and precise, really well-constructed lead-ins to a news story or big game or moment. Then the guy looks at me and goes, 'And the white guy. Below is a list of former ESPN employees who have confirmed their departures via social media (this list will continue to be updated). The award is presented annually by the Pro Football Writers of America in recognition of "long and distinguished reporting in the field of pro football.''. "When he went to ESPN, Stuart didn't change his style -- and there was some resistance. Unfortunately, their enjoyable afternoon turned deadly in a matter of seconds. He was only the second former NFL player to own a team. ", Worker. The ESPN reporter who died on his 34th birthday last month didn't realize it, but he had stage 4 cancer. In 1978, Mees moved to Tallahassee, Florida, and simultaneously moved to another medium. Aschoff was initially hospitalized with multifocal pneumonia, and died of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare immune system syndrome. ", "Yes, he brought hip-hop into the conversation," says Harris, "but I would go further than that. "We stood on the floor," says Williamson, "and there's all these things going around -- and immediately we snapped back to 20 years ago and I just told him I was proud of him, and I loved him.". Four years later, he got the call to head up the coast to Bristol, Connecticut and ESPN. A former Detroit news anchor died just one day after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports. But then you think to turn the pillow over, and, wow, it's cool, and it feels so good. John Clayton, whose list of contacts in the NFL was matched only by his attention to detail and dedication to his craft, died Friday in Washington after a brief illness, his family said. '", The person most responsible for bringing Stuart to Bristol was Al Jaffe, ESPN's vice president for talent, who was looking for sportscasters who might appeal to a younger audience for ESPN2. ", "I've called him Boo-Yah forever," says Norby Williamson, the ESPN senior vice president who helped guide Stuart during those early years. [Later] I said, 'Stu, maybe you were the Swami. A lung biopsy performed after the reporter's death found that, "Unbeknownst to us, Edward had stage 4, non-Hodgkins lymphoma in his lungs. 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. He was 67. ESPN hired Clayton in 1995 as a jack-of-all-trades for its NFL coverage. About a quarter of cases are passed down through families, and the rest come from infections, a weakened immune system or cancer. His plan B was the next best thing to playing sports, and that was covering them. She is publicly vocal but equally powerful. Chris Chelios. On a personal level, John was incredibly generous to me when I succeeded him as the Seahawks beat reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune many years ago. BRISTOL, Conn. -- Richard Durrett, a veteran reporter who covered Dallas-area sports for ESPN, has died. Learning the new information seemed to bring some comfort to Berteau. And he took Nicholas aside and just sat down with him and described his moving away as a kid, losing his best friend as a 10-year-old boy and how he handled it. https://t.co/QbBsi9bg4j, Also memorable were Clayton's appearances on "This is SportsCenter" commercials for ESPN, which to this day are among the best of the popular segments. McClure died at his home near Atlanta, Georgia, this week, ESPN announced on Thursday. So I told my supervisors at ESPN that I was in the hospital for my diabetes, which gave me more incentive to get out soon before I had to blow my cover.. He was 67 years old. "One of the producers on a story we were doing on the Orlando Magic told me about this young guy he really liked. ", She says that the clarity "has helped me knowing that his passing was inevitable, and Im at least grateful he didnt have to go through the painful treatment and drawn out process of battling the disease," jokingly noting, "He wouldnt have wanted to go out like that. He was also a mainstay during ESPNs coverage of the biggest sporting events like the college football national championship, where he would stand on the stage under the falling confetti and interview the winning coach and players. I am heartbroken, NFL analyst and former NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury said. Receive the latest news and breaking updates, straight from our newsroom to your inbox. At one point in 2012, Saunders planned to take his life by jumping off the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York, as he described in his book. We talked regularly. "Until they plant me, I guess," he told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in 2018, when asked how long he would keep covering the NFL. He had been ill since last month with what was initially diagnosed as pneumonia, but by the time of his passing had begun receiving treatment for an immune disorder, according to his fiancee. In 1986, John Saunders debuted to the American audience and would be a fixture on the channel for the next 30 years. This is an aggressive type of cancer that is usually undetectable until it is very advanced," she writes. We have remained close since our Television days. 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. Taylor Twellman is leaving ESPN, so what will he do next? Warrior. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click . He . He also contributed stories for KKFN-FM (104.3 FM) in Denver since February of last year. He was pursuing a nursing degree to become a doctor at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College. After graduating in 1987 with a degree in speech communication, Stuart was hired by WPDE-TV in Florence, South Carolina. Stuart Scott, the ESPN anchor and reporter whose catchphrases became part of the American popular sports vernacular for the past two decades, died Sunday morning after a lengthy battle with. Suzy Kolber, the ESPN anchor who also began at ESPN2, says, "Stuart called me his TV wife, but we really were like a family, trying to launch this brand-new network and spending all this time together. "His wife Pat and sister Amy were at his side and communicated. The Indiana native was prominent in the chronicling of sports in his home state for nearly . #MLB #Baseball #sports #retire #retirement #Philadelphia #Phillies #Pennsylvania #ESPN #canada #toronto #ontario @PhilliesNation pic.twitter.com/1N4WeyR0mp. Patients Make-A-Wish request impacts her life 20 years later. But for me, and those of us here in the 80s and 90s, a lot of things changed when we lost Tom Mees in 1996. "Nobody, with the possible exception of Chris Berman, does highlights as well as Stu," says Kolber. In 1994, when ESPN celebrated its 15th anniversary, Mees, Berman, and Ley were the only three originalSportsCenteranchors still working at the network. '", That was the future, and it looked and sounded different from the present. He was 49 years old. He never slipped. His legendary, Hall of Fame career will forever have a lasting legacy on football fans across the world. Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada. WAIT "After his passing, the hospital received the final results from his lung biopsy. He first started feeling flu-like symptoms while covering the Ohio State-Michigan game on Nov. 30, and two days later he went to the emergency room. He went out and did a piece on the rodeo, and he nailed it just like he would nail the NBA Finals for ESPN. John Clayton, the veteran N.F.L. John Clayton, one of the most prominent national NFL reporters who worked at ESPN for over 20 years, died on Friday. People were stopping us every two feet. CNN Longtime ESPN reporter Pedro Gomez died "unexpectedly" Sunday at the age of 58, according to a statement from ESPN and Sports Content Chairman James Pitaro. Patrick remembers an epic basketball game at the YMCA. Clayton's appearance included a spot where he appeared as he would on SportsCenter, in a coat and tie, before he tore both off to reveal a Slayer T-shirt, let down his long hair, jumped on a bed and shouted, "Hey ma, I'm done with my segment.''. To this day no one knows exactly what happened. He may have represented new school, but he was decidedly old school when it came to preparation. "Ever since he used that catchphrase on the air for the first time, and we looked at each other and said, 'What the hell is that? Anderson calls it "magic." He would easily take Stuart Scott, dad, over Stuart Scott, 'SportsCenter' anchor. Stephen Smith murder case has recently gotten new attention. I am heartbroken.