Bad Week for Sportscasters

This has not been the best of weeks for sportscasting news. We learned earlier this week about the passing of legendary announcer Don Chevrier at the age of 69.

Then, we learned that ESPN’s Stuart Scott is undergoing chemotherapy after cancerous cells were found in his abdomen following an emergency appendectomy.

Now we learn from Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News that Fox Sports’ Jeanne Zelasko has thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery after she finishes her assignments at the Cotton and Orange Bowls next week. Reading the story, it appears Jeanne is in good spirits. Interestingly enough, Jeanne and Stuart share the same agent.

Best wishes to Jeanne in her recovery and the same to Stuart as well.

UPDATE -12/22/07, 10:15 A.M.

I also should have mentioned the vocal cord surgery that ESPN’s Dick Vitale had earlier this week in Boston. It’s been truly a bad week for sportscasters.

Best wishes to Dickie V. as well.