Joe Hass, in part: > > This was what I wrote on Facebook when Joe wrote something similar to this > on my wall: > > I do begrudge what is supposed to be a news organization taking the death >> of one of it's members and treating it as if one of the titans of the field >> has passed. On that Valvano tape, in the open, Olbermann says immediately >> after teasing the death of Valvano, "The games continue." The awareness >> that we're here because of sports, not because of you, ESPN. But ESPN now, >> in oh so many ways, believes you're here because of ESPN. That ESPN is >> essentially bigger than sports. I was only aware of the tribute through >> Twitter, but if anyone actually watched SportsCenter, did they open with >> any mention of the day in sports, or (my guess) did they just fade from >> black to talk about Stewart Scott? There were two NFL playoff games, full >> slate of NBA and college basketball. But that was irrelevant to the >> editorial world of ESPN. This was the equivalent of a newspaper running a >> full-front-page banner head for a local columnist who wrote for the paper >> for 20 years. I'd mock that coverage, and I'll mock this. > > > With that said, I didn't know at the time that the news broke in the > *middle* of the Sunday morning SportsCenter, forcing Hannah Storm to slog > through 59 hard-to-watch seconds to set up that package, which would be > blown out of the water shortly thereafter by Rich Eisen's stunning, > two-and-a-half-minute eulogy on NFL Network. That Eisen didn't just break > down into a sobbing mess is amazing. Eisen's brilliant tribute during the > Bengals/Colts package > <http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/rich-eisen-fills-whole-highlight-package-with-stuart-sc-1677442800> > > that evening was utterly delightful. > > Former Illinois basketball star Steve Bardo and (Scott-hosted) "Dream Job" reality comp winner Mike Hall, both plucked from Bristol for positions at the then-newly-launched Big Ten Network, offered their more-compact, but still touching, tributes <http://btn.com/2015/01/05/video-stephen-bardo-mike-hall-remember-espns-stuart-scott/> (BTN.com link)
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