I noticed last hockey season he was going through a cognitive decline. On
highlights packages he couldn’t keep up with the action and he frequently
got teams and players wrong. The studio hosts were gentle in correcting him
and I figured they felt he earned going out on his own terms.
On Tue, Oct
His diagnosis of Parkinson's disease is why. After over a quarter century
doing hockey (including the NCAA playoffs) on ESPN, especially when the NHL
was considered sport non grata.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/38625766/espn-barry-melrose-retires-parkinson-disease-diagnosis
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