Stuart Scott
|
|
Stuart Scott (born July 19 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sportscaster. He is a 1987 bachelor of arts in speech communications from UNC Chapel Hill. He is currently employed by ESPN as an anchor on their SportsCenter program. He is famous for his on-air "catch phrases", such as:
- "Boo-yah!" (on a home run; this expression is also used by Philadelphian shareholder James Cramer to greet the viewers and listeners who phone him on his TV program Mad Money on CNBC; Cramer said on 2005-05-25, that his phrase is not borrowed from Scott's, and that he apologizes for any similarities)
- "Mojo!"
- "Playa please!"
- "Can I get a witness from the congregation?"
- "As cool as the other side of the pillow."
- "And the Lord said, 'You got to rise up!'" (à la a Southern Baptist preacher, "Lord" pronounced with an extra-long open-mid back rounded vowel and with an alveolar flap instead of an alveolar approximant)
- "I ain't gonna be sayin' nothin', but that ain't right!"
- "...Tar Heel." (reference to anybody who played at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Scott's alma mater)
- "Big ups!"
- "Hugs and hand pounds, everybody."
- "[He] takes/brings it to the house." (when an American football ballcarrier scores a rushing touchdown, the "house" being the end zone)
On Sunday, May 20, 2001, at 9:30 a.m. ET, he gave a graduation speech for Vince Carter's graduation class [1] (http://gazette.unc.edu/archives/01may09/file.6.html). Later that same day, on the NBA's 2001 Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 7, telecast on The NBA on NBC at 5:30 ET, Carter was thrown in the ball with about 2.0 seconds to go in the fourth period and trailing by one point, and missed a 23-foot two-point field goal at the buzzer [2] (http://www.nba.com/games/20010520/TORPHI/recap.html).
Stuart Scott suffered an accident on April 3, 2002, in the New York Jets training camp in Long Island while reporting for ESPN. A machine that throws footballs for receivers to practice hit him in the left eye with a football, and Scott had to undergo surgery of the cornea [3] (http://static.highbeam.com/u/usatoday/april172002/nflworkoutsegmentinjurysidelinesespnsscott).
He recently hosted the ESPN series Dream Job, the network's talent search for a new SportsCenter anchor. He is the current host Monday Night Countdown and once co-anchored NFL Primetime with Chris Berman and former NFL linebacker Tom Jackson.
Filmography
External links
- USA Today article about Stuart Scott entitled "Boo-yah or just boo?" (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2003-11-25-sportscenter-scott-responses_x.htm)
- Stuart Scott's entry at IMdB.com (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0779818)