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Denton Record-Chronicle
Monday, January 5, 2015
Longtime ESPN sportscaster Scott dies at 49
ever be able to express. You two
are my heartbeat. I am stand-
ing on this stage here tonight
because of you.”
Scott is also survived by his
parents, O. Ray and Jacqueline
Scott; siblings Stephen Scott,
Synthia Kearney and Susan
Scott; his daughters Taelor, 19,
and Sydni, 15; and girlfriend
Kristin Spodobalski.
On Sunday morning, NFL
Network broadcaster Rich Ei-
sen’s voice broke as he reported
the death of his good friend,
with whom he worked on
SportsCenter broadcasts.
“I love this man,” Eisen said.
ESPN anchor Hannah
Storm called him “our col-
league, our friend and our in-
spiration” as she reported the
news. On the network’s NFL
pregame show, Chris Berman
said, “Stuart made ESPN what
it is, he made us better people.”
Before North Carolina’s
women’s basketball team
tipped off against N.C. State,
the arena observed a moment
of silence for Scott, and the vid-
eoboard proclaimed the 1987
graduate “Forever a Tar Heel.”
Born in Chicago, Scott at-
tended high school in North
Carolina before going to UNC.
He returned to Chapel Hill as
the university’s commence-
ment speaker in 2001.
Scott worked at three TV
stations in the southern U.S.
before joining ESPN for the
1993 launch of its ESPN2 net-
work, hosting short sports up-
date segments.
He often anchored the 11
p.m. SportsCenter, where he
would punctuate highlights
with an emphatic “Boo-ya!” or
note a slick move as being “as
cool as the other side of the pil-
low.”
By Rick Freeman
Associated Press
Stuart Scott was in his ele-
ment, working a Monday
Night Football game, when he
was forced to leave for an ap-
pendix operation.
Doctors discovered a tumor
during surgery and Scott was
diagnosed with cancer. But he
made a point of continuing to
live his life — at work and out-
side of it.
“You beat cancer by how you
live,” he would later say. “So
live. Live. Fight like hell.”
That fight ended Sunday
when Scott, the longtime
SportsCenter anchor and
ESPN personality known for
his enthusiasm and ubiquity,
died at age 49.
Scott remained dedicated to
his craft even as he suffered
through chemotherapy, radia-
tion and surgery.
ESPN President John Skip-
per said in a statement that
Scott was “a true friend and a
uniquely inspirational figure”
and that his “energetic and un-
wavering devotion to his family
and to his work while fighting
the battle of his life left us in
awe, and he leaves a void that
can never be replaced.”
Skipper also marveled at
Scott’s dedication to keep fight-
ing — literally.
“Who engages in mixed
martial arts training in the
midst of chemotherapy treat-
ments?” Skipper said. “Who
leaves a hospital procedure to
Scott went on to cover
countless major events for the
network, including the Super
Bowl, NBA Finals, World Se-
ries and NCAA basketball
tournament. He also inter-
viewed President Barack Oba-
ma, joining him for a televised
game of one on one.
“I will miss Stuart Scott,”
Obama said in a statement. “Stu
helped usher in a new way to
talk about our favorite teams
and the day’s best plays. For
much of those 20 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 col-
leagues on SportsCenter were
there.... Michelle and I offer our
thoughts and prayers to his fam-
ily, friends and colleagues.”
In July, when he accepted
the ESPY award named for for-
mer N.C. State coach Jim Val-
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John Shearer, Invision/AP file photo
Sportscaster Stuart Scott accepts the Jimmy V award for perseverance, at the ESPY Awards at
the Nokia Theatre on July 16 in Los Angeles.
vano, who died of cancer in
1993, Scott shared what he had
learned from his struggle:
“When you die, that does not
mean that you lose to cancer.
You beat cancer by how you
live, why you live, and the man-
ner in which you live.
“So live. Live. Fight like
return to the set?”
Fans and players at games
around the United States on
Sunday stopped to observe mo-
ments of silence, including at
the Bengals-Colts NFL playoff
game in Indianapolis, Lions-
Cowboys in Arlington; the
Mavericks-Cavaliers
game in Cleveland and at sev-
eral college basketball games.
Some of the world’s most fa-
mous athletes expressed their
grief online. LeBron James
wrote on Instagram: “Thank
you so much for being u and
giving us inner city kids some-
one we could relate to that
wasn’t a player but was close
enough to them.”
“Stuart wasn’t covering he-
roes & champions, it was the
other way around,” Tiger
Woods said on Twitter.
In July, Scott accepted the
Jimmy V Perseverance Award
at the ESPYs. During his
speech, he told his teenage
daughters: “Taelor and Sydni, I
love you guys more than I will
NBA
hell.’
No. 10 Utah dominates UCLA
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Women
Christian Wood had 12
points and eight boards for
UNLV (9-5). Cody Doolin also
had 12 points.
No. 23 Northern Iowa 67,
Loyola (Illinois) 58
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - Jer-
emy Morgan scored a career-
high 18 points and Northern Io-
wa beat Loyola of Illinois for its
third win in four games.
Deon Mitchell added 13
points and the Panthers (12-2,1-1
Missouri Valley) bounced back
from a loss to Evansville by hold-
ing off the Ramblers (11-3,1-1).
Northern Iowa pushed a
four-point halftime lead to 59-41
on Seth Tuttle’s layup with 5:31
left. Loyola responded with 11
quick points before its late rally
fell short.
Milton Doyle had 13 points
for Loyola.
By The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - Delon
Wright had 11 points, seven re-
bounds, five assists and four
steals to lead a balanced offense
for No. 10 Utah in a 71-39 rout of
UCLA on Sunday.
Jakob Poeltl had nine points
and 10 rebounds for the Utes
(12-2, 2-0 Pac-12), who beat the
Bruins in Salt Lake City for the
second straight season.
Tony Parker scored 12 points
to lead UCLA, which lost its fifth
straight. The Bruins (8-7, 0-2)
trailed from start to finish.
The Bruins shot just 29 per-
cent from the field and were 1 of
11 from 3-point range.
Utah’s speed and efficient
shooting overwhelmed UCLA
right from the start.
Then the Utes’ defense fin-
ished off the Bruins, who had a
long scoring drought in each
College basketball
Roundup
did not return. Further details of
her injury were not yet known.
With the loss, the Mean
Green falls to 1-12 (0-2), and
their next action will be a home
matchup with Rice on Saturday
at 4 p.m.
The Owls sit at 6-7 (1-1) after
defeating UTSA and losing to
UTEP in the first weekend of
Conference USA play.
When asked about his expec-
tations for the team’s third con-
ference game of the year in six
days, Petersen was honest.
“We’ve got to keep working
on the offense,” he said. “But we
also have to establish the five
who will be the toughest out
there Saturday versus Rice;
that’s who we’ll start.”
half.
No. 13 Kansas 76, UNLV 61
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Frank
Mason had 18 points and seven
assists, Wayne Selden added 16
points and No. 13 Kansas pulled
away late to beat UNLV in the
Jayhawks’ nonconference finale.
Perry Ellis also had 16 points,
Kelly Oubre had 12 points and 10
rebounds and Cliff Alexander
scored 10 off the bench to help
the Jayhawks (11-2) win their
15th straight at Allen Field-
house.
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Men
issues. Aniefiok was set to meet
with Benford late Sunday after-
noon.
Green rarely do, to try to pres-
sure UTSA on the perimeter, but
still gave up nine 3s.
Despite struggling at times to
get to UTSAs shooters, UNT
was still in position to pull out
the win in the second half,
thanks in part to a couple of key
plays by Ahmed.
The junior converted a three-
point play to give UNT a 49-47
lead with 10 minutes left. UTSA
answered with a 7-0 run before
Ahmed helped bring UNT back
again. His second three-point
play with 6:11 left pulled the
Mean Green to within 55-54.
“I wanted to be aggressive,
which is what coach told me to
do,” Ahmed said. “He wanted
me to attack.”
Ahmed’s second three-point
play was the last highlight of the
day for UNT, which missed all
four of its shots from the field
during UTSAs game-changing
run late in the second half.
UTSA got to the line four times
during the surge and hit five of
its six attempts.
UTSA essentially put UNT
away when it worked the ball to
Keon Lewis in the comer with
the shot clock about to run out.
Lewis drilled the Roadrunners’
ninth 3 of the day with 2:31 left,
pumped his fist and headed
back down the court.
“We had some breakdowns
and had some turnovers that
hurt us late,” Benford said. “They
executed and went to the foul
line. They made it tough, where
we had to get a good shot every
possession and didn’t do it.”
That has been an ongoing
problem for UNT, which has
now lost four straight and seven
of its last nine. That slide has left
the Mean Green looking for
ways to fix what ails them head-
ing into a series of three road
games, beginning Saturday at
Rice. A two-game swing to
Charlotte and Old Dominion
will follow.
UNT believes the path to a
turnaround heading into that
trip is an easy one to find. The
question is if the Mean Green
are capable of following it.
“We have to keep playing
hard, rebound, get those 50-50
balls and cut down on turn-
overs,” Williams said. ‘We shot
the ball well tonight. We had
open looks and knocked them
down. We just needed to get key
stops and rebounds.”
UNT didn’t and is now in
that all-too-familiar 0-2 hole in
conference play at a time its ros-
ter is in flux with Aniefiok’s re-
turn in question. The 6-5 guard
came into the day as UNT’s fifth-
leading scorer at 6.9 points a
game, not to mention one of its
top 3-point shooters.
Only Williams, who has 20
3s on the season, has made more
shots from behind the arc than
Aniefiok, who has 16.
‘We made it tough on our-
selves because what you want to
do win is win your home games,”
Benford said. ‘We let a couple get
away that we felt like we could
have won. Now we have to go on
the road and steal a couple.”
BRETT VITO can be
reached at 940-566-6870 and
via Twitter at @brettvito.
Benford said there is no
timetable for Aniefiok’s return.
UNT was also without T.J.
Taylor, who is working his way
back from an ankle injury, for its
game against UTSA. The Mean
Green lost Texas A&M transfer
point guard J-Mychal Reese be-
fore he played a game for UNT
when the NCAA ruled him ineli-
gible this season.
Backup guard Carrington
Ward is also likely done for the
year with a broken foot.
UNT had to lean heavily on
Jordan Williams to help fill the
void. The senior played all 40
minutes, scoring a team-high 17
points to lead four Mean Green
players who finished in double
figures on a day he tied Calvin
Watson for 12th on UNT’s career
scoring list with 1,253 points.
Backup forward Mu-
hammed Ahmed added 14
points, while DeAndre Harris
and Colin Voss scored 12 and 10,
respectively. Todd Eaglin made
his second start of the season at
point guard and finished with
five assists and just three turn-
overs in 36 minutes.
“It hurt our guard rotation,”
Benford said of losing Taylor
and Aniefiok. ‘We could have
given Jordan and DeAndre a
rest, and it’s tough to put Todd in
there for 36 minutes.”
UNT just didn’t have the fire-
power in the end to keep up with
UTSA and 6-8 forward Jeromie
Hill, who was a matchup night-
mare for the Mean Green. Hill
finished with 23 points, hit four
of his five 3-point attempts and
shot over the top of UNT’s pe-
rimeter players all day.
UNT came out of its 3-2
zone, something the Mean
Kansas led just 63-57 with
less than 6 minutes to go, but
Mason assisted on a pair of bas-
kets as the Jayhawks scored nine
straight points to help put the
game away.
Stars sputter, lose in 0T
By Matt Carlson
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Patrick Sharp
scored 1:17 into overtime to give
the Chicago Blackhawks a 5-4
win against Dallas on Sunday
night and snap the Stars’ four-
game winning streak.
Stars
Chicago 5, Dallas 4 0T
Sharp drove past Jason Spezza
down the slot, took Duncan
Keith’s feed from the left point
and beat Kari Lehtonen with a
shot that slipped between the
goalie’s body and his blocker.
Chicago’s Brad Richards
fooled Lehtonen with an improb-
able sharp-angle shot with 3:57
left in the third period to tie it at 4
and set up overtime. Richards
whipped the puck from the goal
line at the left boards and it
slipped between Lehtonen’s el-
bow and the goalpost
Brandon Saad, Patrick Kane
and Bryan Bickell scored for the
Blackhawks, who came back
from four one-goal deficits to win.
Erik Cole had two goals and
an assist for the Stars. Jamie Benn
and his brother, Jordie, also
scored for Dallas.
Lehtonen made 33 saves,
while Chicago’s Corey Crawford
blocked 30 shots.
Blackhawks top prospect, for-
ward Teuvo Teravainen, played
his first game of the season.
The 20-year-old was recalled
from Rockford of the AHL after
forward Kris Versteeg suffered a
left hand injury when he was hit
by a shot in Thursday’s Winter
Classic in Washington. Versteeg is
expected to be out for “about a
month,” according to coach Joel
Quenneville.
Jamie Benn opened the scor-
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Chicago Blackhawks left wing Bryan Bickell (29) tries to score
against Dallas Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen, left, in Chicago on
Sunday.
ing 3:59 in when he buried a re-
bound from the edge of left circle
into an open net Crawford had to
react quickly to make a pad save
on Tyler Seguin’s initial deflected
shot from 20 feet out in the slot,
and wasn’t able to recover.
Saad muscled to the net and
directed in Jonathan Toews’ cen-
tering pass 1:15 later to tie it at L
Toews collected a rebound of
Brent Seabrook’s shot from the
point, then fed it across the crease
to Saad, who fought off Stars de-
fenseman Trevor Daley.
Defensive breakdowns lead to
a scoring flurry early in the sec-
ond.
Kane tied the match at 2 at
3:58 to finish a 2-on-l with Sharp,
who created the odd-man break
when he blew around Jordie
Benn at the Dallas blue line.
Cole restored the Stars’ lead at
3-2 just 45 seconds later when he
was left wide open at the side of
the net and lifted in a high shot.
Bickell’s power-play tip-in
with 1:55 left in the second tied it
3-all. Parked in front, he deflected
Brad Richards’ shot from the blue
UTSA 71, North Texas 61
UTSA (6-6,1-1) - Hill 9-131-2 23, Sherman 0-0 6-8 6, Littles
1-3 0-0 3, Bowie 5-10 3-716, Leis 4-7 7-816, Wilson 1-71-2
3, Jones 0-3 0-0 0, Ringholt 0-2 0-0 0, Lewis 1-3 2-2 4. Totals
21-48 20-29 71.
NORTH TEXAS (6-8,0-2) - Combs 2-3 2-4 6, Voss 5-9 0-0
10, Harris 6-12 0-012, Eaglin 0-5 0-0 0, Williams 6-13 3-417,
White-Pittman 0-1 0-0 0, Ahmed 4-6 5-614, Flannigan 1-3
0-0 2. Totals 24-5210-14 61.
Halftime - UNT 32-29. Three-point goals - UTSA 9-22 (Hill
4-5, Littles 1-2, Bowie 3-8, Lewis 1-2, Wilson 0-3, Ringholt
0-2) UNT 3-17 (Harris 0-4, Eaglin 0-3, Williams 2-7, White-
Pittman 0-1, Ahmed 1-2). Fouled out - none. Rebounds -
UTSA 33 (Bowie 8), UNT 30 (Williams 6). Assists - UTSA
12 (three tied, 3), UNT 9 (Eaglin 5). Total fouls - UTSA 15,
UNT 19. A-1,628
line.
Cole’s second goal of the game,
on a mid-air deflection of Alex
Goligoski’s floating feed from the
left point 4:05 into the third peri-
od, put Dallas back ahead, 4-3.
Lehtonen stopped several
dose in shots to start overtime.
Just 55 seconds into the extra
frame, Crawford acddentally
passed the puck from behind the
net to Dallas’ Cody Ealfin in the
slot, but dived back to make the
save.
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Jordie Benn, a defenseman,
trailed into the slot and scored his
first goal of the season 2:15 into
the period to complete a slick
three-way passing play with Cole
and Ales Hemsky to put Dallas
ahead 2-L No Blackhawks for-
wards backchecked on the Stars’
rush.
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