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Former ESPN anchor Trey Wingo shared some behind the scenes of ESPN's relationship with the late legend Stuart Scott...
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“Stuart was such an innovator,” Wingo explained during an appearance on the “Hoodie Chroniclez” podcast. “I’ll tell you one of the things that no one ever knows about Stuart, and maybe some people know this, but he was under a lot of scrutiny by management at ESPN. They didn’t like his style, which is interesting now because all they care about is style, for the most part. And they wanted to make sure, if you’re going to do that, back it up with information.”

“So if you go back and watch Stuart at his heyday, he was presenting himself in a way, ‘Cool as the other side of the pillow,’ all that kind of stuff, but then you would listen to him, he would drop more facts and more knowledge in one of those ‘SportsCenter‘ episodes than anyone else,” the ex-anchor added. “Basically, he was like, ‘Really? You’re going to mess with me? Alright, I’m gonna do my thing, and then I’m going to show you how much of your shite I can put in there as well.’”
(The Spun)
Filed Under: General Sports
Originally published on TigerDroppings.com
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MyTooScents17 hours
He was the greatest. ESPN has been garbage since his passing
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TigerGrad0318 hours
I miss Stuart Scott doing SportsCenter. I used to watch it every night and when it was Scott/Wingo or Scott/Eisen, you knew it was going to a good one.
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kciDAtaE19 hours
Wingo is a shitty person
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Datbayoubengal21 hours
Scott was such a cool dude. I remember the female anchor barely holding it together when she delivered the news. Back then I used to love to watch ESPN.
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ESPN is such a shite organization. I loathe those bastards.
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KCT1 day
Disney/ESPN. Disney is the bigger part of the problem by far.
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I heard Bob Costas say "Cooler than the other side of the pillow in the late 1970s, when I was in high school.
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Still waiting for the end of your quote
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Bad/lack of proofreading
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Stuart Scott seemed to be a family man and a good guy, but he was the corniest sonofabitch ever on ESPN, and it was painful to watch. He just repeated trendy hip hop lyrics and trendy sayings that the kids were saying. What is orginal about that?
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TheRouxGuru1 day
I enjoyed Stuart Scott. Kenny Mayne is the one I thought was corny and lame. Only funny line he had during highlights, is when they’d show the players celebrating after the games, he’d dryly say ‘and the players were gay’ - as a kid this always cracked me up
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Safety Blitz1 day
Sounds like they made him even better. It’s almost like they gave him feedback, and he took it and improved…..what a thought, management might actually care.
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Mister Ice1 day
Way to criticize a man when he can respond!
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PeleofAnalytics16 hours
The person being interviewed is talking about how Scott handled and overcame criticism he got when he was at ESPN... Either you can't read or you are going to be upset by every single story of a deceased person overcoming their critics.
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LuckyTiger571 day
Stuart Scott was the best! He was classy and very knowledgeable about the subjects he reported on. I think if he were alive today he would walk away so fast from the woke ESPN and work elsewhere.
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BLM was trendy. Stuart Scott would have been on the front lines of that shite and he would have made it really theatrical.
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