Stuart Scott was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 19, 1965. He received a bachelor's degree in speech communication from the University of North Carolina in 1987. He worked at local news stations in the South for several years before joining ESPN in 1993. He started off on ESPN2, but he soon moved to SportsCenter. He was known for infusing his reports with a blend of pop culture references, slang, and exuberant phrases such as Booyah! He also hosted N.F.L. and N.B.A. shows, Dream Job, and Stump the Schwab. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2007. In 2014, he received a perseverance award at the ESPYs, ESPN's televised award ceremony. His only book, Every Day I Fight, was published in March 2015 and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list that same year. He died of cancer on January 4, 2015 at the age of 49.
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