Stuart Scott

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Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sportscaster for ESPN, most visibly as an anchor on SportsCenter. Scott graduated in 1987 with a bachelor of arts in speech communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scott is famous for his amblyopia and on-air "catch phrases", including:

"Boo-yah!"
"Mojo!"
"Hater in the House!" (usually after an american football interception or other great defensive play.)
"Playa please!"
"Holla at a playa when ya' see him on the street." (home run or a nice play)
"Can I get a witness from the congregation?"
"As cool as the other side of the pillow."
"Call him butter, 'cause he was on a roll."
"Call him Bus (reference to Jerome Bettis) 'cause he took them to school"
"And the Lord said, 'You got to rise up!'" (à la a Southern Baptist preacher, "Lord" pronounced with an extra-long open-mid back rounded vowel and with an alveolar flap instead of an alveolar approximant)
"I ain't gonna be sayin' nothin', but that ain't right!"
"[He] takes/brings it to the house." (when an American football player scores a rushing touchdown)

Stuart Scott was injured on April 3, 2002, at the New York Jets training camp while reporting for ESPN when a machine that throws footballs for receivers to practice on hit him in the left eye with a football, requiring Scott to undergo surgery of the cornea [1].

In the 2003 SportsCenter Island poll about the popularity of SportsCenter anchors, on the Web site of USA Today, Scott got the most "kick off" votes and the second-most "keep" votes. USAToday.com writer Michael Hiestand summarized on an article, "Scott stands out on 'SportsCenter'" [2].

Scott recently hosted the ESPN series Dream Job, the network's talent search for a new SportsCenter anchor. He is the current host of Monday Night Countdown and once co-anchored NFL Primetime with Chris Berman and former NFL linebacker Tom Jackson.

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