ESPN Anchor Stuart Scott Dies At Age 49

By Josh Albarran

ESPN's Stuart Scott accepting the Jimmy V award at the ESPYs on July 16, 2014.

On Sunday, the worlds of both sports and television were shocked and saddened when ESPN's SportsCenter anchor Stuart Scott had passed away to cancer after eight years of battling that began when he was diagnosed back in 2007.

Throughout the course of the day, ESPN held tributes and features of Scott's career including words from his colleagues such as Chris Berman, Hannah Storm, Steve Levy, Scott Van Pelt and personalities from the other major broadcast networks including Fox's Curt Mennfee and Michael Strahan, CBS's James Brown and even Scott's former co-partner and now NFL Network studio host Rich Eisen.

Scott accepted the Jimmy V Perseverance award at the ESPY Awards this past July on ESPN; "When you die, that doesn't mean you lose to cancer," said Scott and contiuned "you beat cancer by how you live, why you live in the matter in which you live."

A month before he anchored his last SportsCenter broadcast with Steve Levy on June 22nd and both launched the network's brand-new state-of-the-art Bristol studios called Digital Center 2.

Linda Cohn, Scott's longtime partner on the flagship ESPN show and now anchoring the early afternoon daytime show weekdays on SportsCenter went to Twitter and share some words with her good friend, "I can't believe he is gone," said Cohn. "There was nothing like Stuart Scott, There will never again. A big presence even a bigher heart."

The University of North Carolina honored Scott on Monday in a college basketball game that was televised by ESPN wearing "STU" on their jesery even holding signs honoring the late anchor. Momemt of silence for Stuart Scott also held prior to both the NFL playoff games and NBA regular season games the day before.

Scott died while under contract to the Disney-owned ESPN and leaves with his
two loving girls in his family.