Rosenfeld Realty Advisors: STUART SCOTT

This is a great story that needs to be told, and it can be filed under human interest. I try to stay on point and write about local issues but occasionally I digress. In case you haven’t noticed, I love sports. I watch ESPN (an all sports network if you have been in a cave for the past 20 years) at some point every day and usually am watching sports nightly if I am home. Stuart Scott is a sportscaster who has worked at ESPN since 1993. He is by far the coolest (is it because he is virtually the only black sportscaster? I wonder) sportscaster, full of exuberant phases and sounds. My all time favorite is Booyah! It is a sound made when something happens, usually like a home run in baseball, big tackle in football, a slam dunk in basketball, etc. Anyway, Scott has some serious cancer. It is in his abdomen, where he has a one foot scar. It has gone and come back 3 times. Through it all, he does very vigorous mixed martial arts and cross training to restore the energy he loses from his chemotherapy sessions. Through this entire ordeal, you never hear a word from him about it. But you see him on TV all the time and you would never know that there was a thing wrong with him. It is really amazing and it is inspiring to me. If he can get through this terrible pain and chemotherapy without complaining or even letting on how much it is affecting him, how can any of us complain about our much less serious issues? Strangely it makes you feel better about yourself, first and foremost because you don’t have the same problem, but after that I am not sure how you cannot feel admiration. He has 2 daughters, who I am sure help keep his priorities in order, and provide him with support. It just goes to show you that you really never know what is going on with someone, no matter how well you think you know them. We all wish Mr. Scott the very best in his continuing fight against cancer and look forward to seeing him on TV doing his thing. If you have ever seen him on TV or read this article you just get that feeling like he is going to beat it. He is certainly going to keep fighting no matter what. As always thanks for reading and have a great day.

A Story of Perseverance

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/sports/espn-anchors-private-battle-with-cancer-becomes-a-public-one.html?_r=0