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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:12am
The sportscaster on ESPN Sports Center just sang "No one mourns the wicked" while describing a football game.
(Yes, I am a football-loving, showtune queen.)
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
leomaxfrank
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/04
#1re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:13amThis is the 2nd time something from Wicked was mentioned on Sportscenter..i mentioned the first about 6 weeks ago. Stuart Scott sang some "Popular". I thought it was a dream.
But I won't live alone in a house of regret.
Updated On: 12/30/04 at 12:13 AM
#2re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:14amare you kidding? who did the singing? i hope they replay it during the morning reply. (im a college football fanatic :) )
#3re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:19amIt was Stuart Scott. He was describing a play in the Houston Bowl.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#5re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:28am
LOL SOM!
Yeah, my brother practically begs to watch ESPN Football, and I always turn it off. If I would have known a Wicked song was going to be on it....then I would have still turned it off.
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#6re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:41amAre they trying to appeal to a new demographic? Do that many people who watch sports center really know the music to Wicked?
#7re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:59amI suppose it is for the random gay man who enjoys sports...like me!
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#9re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 2:17amStuart Scott has made a career of tossing in obscure quotes (and yes, Wicked is obscure to 99% of the viewers of Sports Center) during his recaps of games. Whether it's lines from commercials, movies, South Park (every Tim Duncan highlight for the last three years has been punctuated with an ecstatic "TIMMY!"), or some other pop culture touchstone -- that's just what Scott and his buddies at ESPN do. The fact that Wicked, has for the time being entered into the lexicon of quotes is a fortunate happenstance for Broadway (if I'm not mistaken, Scott has a young daughter, which probably explains how he knows about the show and "Popular").
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#10re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:39amYeah, additionally about a week or 2 ago when describing an NFL play, Scott said it was a play that was "unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe." At first I couldn't place it and then I realized it was Wicked. I guess he probably quotes Wicked a lot.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#11re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:19pm
Yes, BWayBoy, I am quite special.
; )
Though, I live in a house with two other gay men who also love college football. Though, one of them is not a fan of the musical theater! Now that is unusual!
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#12re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 1/8/06 at 8:05pmWhile describing a slam dunk he sang that guy's going to "be popular, he's gonnna be popular." My husband and I and were crying we laughed so hard. The other announcer said back "That sounds really Wicked."
Be the change you want in the world....
#13re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:57pmStuart Scott does in fact have several children--and at least two daughters. I saw him out with his family once while I was eating at the Jekyll and Hyde Club. I am sure that they have gone to the show while in the city and that his daughters probably adore the show.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
kyguy78
Broadway Star Joined: 1/12/06
#14re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:05amYeah, Stu Scott's hitting up the Broadway catchphrases now. He sang popular again about two weeks ago during a college basketball highlight.
#15re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:11amI guess Scott has that Popular catchphrase now. During the NLCS highlights when showing a steller Jim Edmonds catch, he said " He's gonna be pop-u-lar." Must have liked the show
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#16re: ESPN Sports Center
Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:25amSomeone did some digging to revive this thread!
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
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