{"id":3776,"date":"2023-12-13T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:18:31","slug":"daughters-of-late-espn-anchor-stuart-scott-honor-their-fathers-legacy-through-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/2023\/12\/daughters-of-late-espn-anchor-stuart-scott-honor-their-fathers-legacy-through-cancer-research.html","title":{"rendered":"Daughters of Late ESPN Anchor Stuart Scott Honor Their Father&#8217;s Legacy Through Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3791\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3791\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/410\/2023\/12\/stewart-scott_credit-dasfx32-shutterstock_Inset-Taelor-and-Sydni-Scott-facebook-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">dasfx32 \/ Shutterstock.com | Inset: Taelor and Sydni Scott \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Sydni Scott wants to hear her father\u2019s voice, the massive body of work Stuart Scott left behind, the \u201cBoo-Yah\u201d compilations, the legendary highlight reads, and the \u201cThis is Sportscenter\u201d shorts give her plenty of options. For her quick fix, Scott picks up her phone and sorts through the numerous voicemail messages from her dad that she\u2019s saved. However, there\u2019s a specific one that stands out.<\/p>\n<p>The two disagreed about some heels she wore and left at his house, and he swore that she didn\u2019t until he eventually found them. She recalled, \u201cHe called to tell me I was right and ended with \u2018this is your paternal unit,\u2019 a line he used for years. I can hear him laughing to himself as he finds them. Taelor Scott, her older sister, also has a go-to saved voicemail. It\u2019s her father calling from an event where Kendrick Lamar, a rapper she introduced to her dad, was performing.<\/p>\n<p>Taelor Scott said, \u201cIt\u2019s a really grainy video message with horrible audio. I listen to it now, hearing him have his Kendrick moment. It\u2019s said that there\u2019s many artists like that I won\u2019t be able to share with him going forward.\u201d It\u2019s approaching eight years since Stuart Scott, 49, died seven years after he was diagnosed with appendix cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of his legacy was recently held in New York at the annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.v.org\/event\/boo-yah\/\">\u201cBOO-YAH\u201d event<\/a>\u00a0that has raised more than $16 million with ESPN and the V Foundation for the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund, which has a mission that was important to him: Making a significant impact on the racial disparities in cancer outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TdF07xO-eo?si=kkf5Y4D8JS8tZ7M2\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sydni Scott said, \u201cHis legacy is as much about sports as it is about the Black community and Black families. So, to be part of the work trying to essentially elongate the time Black families spend together, through the study of racial disparities in cancer research, that\u2019s a meaningful part of his legacy.\u201d Another part of her father\u2019s legacy? The way he single-handedly changed the delivery of sports news through his hip-hop and cultural references, an approach never seen nationally before he joined ESPN in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Chicago, raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Scott put his cultural identity on display nightly through his catchphrases that resonated with African Americans, attracting a young demographic to ESPN. His career inspired his daughter Taelor, who was 19 when her father died, to pursue a career as a visual storyteller. For the sisters, there is so much to miss about their father who, during the 2014 ESPYs and six months before his death, delivered one of the network\u2019s most emotional moments as he accepted the Jimmy V Perseverance Award.<\/p>\n<p>Taelor Scott said, \u201cWhat I miss most is someone to share everything with. As time goes on, your contact list gets shorter and shorter, and I feel like there\u2019s a huge hole. And I have a deep nostalgia for when I did not feel that particular emptiness. It\u2019s like your biggest fan is not going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her sister agrees. \u201cMissing my dad is so caught up in the nostalgia of adolescence, of growing up, of childhood,\u201d Sydni Scott said. \u201cI had to forge this path out of childhood into adulthood \u2014 which I\u2019m early on the journey \u2014 without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Sydni Scott wants to hear her father\u2019s voice, the massive body of work Stuart Scott left behind, the \u201cBoo-Yah\u201d compilations, the legendary highlight reads, and the \u201cThis is Sportscenter\u201d shorts give her plenty of options. 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