Former world no. 1 tennis player Chris Evert has ovarian cancer. In a powerful ESPN article co-written by Chris McKendry on Jan. 14, the 18-time grand slam champion shared that she was diagnosed with stage 1C ovarian cancer and began "her first of six rounds of chemotherapy" this week. "I've lived a very charmed life. Now I have some challenges ahead of me," Chris shared. "But, I have comfort in knowing the chemotherapy is to ensure that cancer does not come back." The tennis star's health discovery follows the death of her younger sister, Jeanne Evert Dubin, who passed away from the same type of cancer in...
- 1/15/2022
- E! Online
Tennis Hall-of-Famer and broadcaster Chris Evert revealed today that she has stage 1C ovarian cancer.
Evert, who is 67, was diagnosed last year after undergoing a preventative hysterectomy, she said. Cancer has not been detected elsewhere in her body, according to a piece she co-wrote with Chris McKendry on ESPN.com. In it, Evert also revealed she began her first of six rounds of chemotherapy this week.
“I feel very lucky they caught it early,” Evert wrote in a twitter post announcing the ESPN story, “and expect positive results from my chemo plan.”
Evert also revealed that she still plans to participate in ESPN’s coverage of the Australian Open, which begins Monday and runs through January 30. The 18-time Grand Slam singles champ won that tournament twice, in 1982 and 1984.
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— Chris Evert (@ChrissieEvert) January 15, 2022
In the ESPN.com piece, McKendry relates her...
Evert, who is 67, was diagnosed last year after undergoing a preventative hysterectomy, she said. Cancer has not been detected elsewhere in her body, according to a piece she co-wrote with Chris McKendry on ESPN.com. In it, Evert also revealed she began her first of six rounds of chemotherapy this week.
“I feel very lucky they caught it early,” Evert wrote in a twitter post announcing the ESPN story, “and expect positive results from my chemo plan.”
Evert also revealed that she still plans to participate in ESPN’s coverage of the Australian Open, which begins Monday and runs through January 30. The 18-time Grand Slam singles champ won that tournament twice, in 1982 and 1984.
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— Chris Evert (@ChrissieEvert) January 15, 2022
In the ESPN.com piece, McKendry relates her...
- 1/15/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Sure, she may know her appoggiatura from her serrefine, but can she accurately address a letter to Dancing with the Stars' Maksim? On the eve of her fourth trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, 8th-grader Josephine Kao of Sacramento shared a peek inside her spellbinding world, and then dared to tackle some of TV's "toughest" names. (ABC's coverage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals, hosted by Dancing man Tom Bergeron, airs Thursday at 8 pm/Et. SportsCenter's Chris McKendry oversees coverage of the semifinal rounds earlier that day, from 10 am to 1 pm, on Espn.) TVGuide.com: What do you typically do the last few days before the national bee? Do you keep cracking at the books, or "get away" from it all?
Josephine Kao: I try to do both. One kid I know said he stayed up until 5 a.m. yesterday morning, but I try to study just a little.
Josephine Kao: I try to do both. One kid I know said he stayed up until 5 a.m. yesterday morning, but I try to study just a little.
- 5/27/2009
- by Matt Mitovich
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Bristol, Conn. -- The show looks and feels pretty much the same, but the day starts pretty early for the crew of Espn's new daytime "SportsCenter."
Monday was the first day of the new live "SportsCenter," a six-hour block beginning at 9 a.m. Et that on weekdays replaces the "SportsCenter" repeats that had run there for years. It's part of a new effort for the network to shore up its live programming during the day and jump on sport stories that break before the 6 p.m. "SportsCenter."
That means Espn and its franchise program starts its day even earlier. The first employees roll into the network's sprawling suburban Connecticut campus around midnight, as the finishing touches are being put on the preparations for the night's final "SportsCenter" beginning at 2 a.m. The late crew gives way to the morning shift that each day will provide six hours of live sports news.
It's the first time that "SportsCenter" has ever been produced that long for that regular a period of time. But they're not reinventing the wheel, said Mark Gross, managing editor of studio production.
"Is it going to be different? Yes. Is it going to be dramatically different? No. It's still going to be scores and highlights," he said.
There are some new features, including a strong link to the new SportsCenter Web site, an interview with an Espn analyst taking viewers' questions called "In Box," and "Word on the Street," talking to an Espn Radio talk show host from around the country. Monday's topic? How Green Bay, Wis., is weathering life after Brett Favre.
Doing a live "SportsCenter" daytime block was on the boards for years, but the network decided this spring that the time finally was right.
It hired veteran sports broadcaster and former "Early Show" co-host Hannah Storm, who anchors the 9 a.m.-noon telecast with Josh Elliott. The broadcast is then passed off to Chris McKendry and Robert Flores for the back three hours. Monday was chosen as the premiere because it's at the beginning of the Summer Olympics, plus near the start of football season and in the stretch of baseball's pennant race.
On Monday, there was no breaking news and only a handful of dropped balls. Favre led off the first newscast, with the U.S. swim team's stunning come-from-behind victory in the men's 4x100 freestyle relay and Team USA's opening victory over host nation China in men's basketball near the top.
Storm and Elliott were in almost constant motion, between two desks and two standup locations. They interviewed in short order former NFL player Cris Carter in the studio, reporter Jeremy Schaap in Beijing and baseball reporter Buster Olney, among others.
Because of the NBC-abc trade that allowed Al Michaels go to "Sunday Night Football" and ABC to have, among other things, Oswalt the Rabbit, Espn has been able to run six minutes of Olympics highlights per hour, up dramatically from years' past. "SportsCenter" used that to full effect with an extend play and several camera angles of Sunday's thrilling relay finish.
It's a dizzying pace, and one that Storm said after the telecast was thrilling and challenging. Storm started full-time work at Espn only at the beginning of the month and estimated that there were only about eight rehearsals before hitting the air. Some of the rehearsals by Flores and McKendry ended up going on the air because of last week's Favre trade to the New York Jets.
"We only had one or two days where we actually did try to pull off a three-hour rehearsal," Storm said.
Previous plans had Espn start the live "SportsCenter" at 6 a.m. Et, but several weeks ago those earlier three hours were scrapped. Gross said the network decided that it wouldn't start out doing 6-9 a.m. but might review it in the next six months.
"The beauty is that we have a whole crew of people in place" in case breaking news forces Espn on the air earlier than 9 am., he said.
It's also hoped that the live nature of the show boosts the ratings after 9, when in the past the re-air ratings dipped. Ratings range from 0.5 in households between 6-9 a.m. to 0.4 at 11 a.m., Nielsen Media Research said. The 10 a.m. re-air averages a 0.6.
"We think there is more upside to the 9 a.m. start," Gross said.
For Storm, her first live three hours brought back memories of the excitement and responsibility when she worked at CNN. She also said she enjoyed writing the script and doing other preparation for the sports show, which she hasn't done in six years or so.
But there was one challenge to the whole "SportsCenter" routine. There's no time to get food, so she brought her own: nuts, fruit and the like.
"I didn't like going three hours without eating," she joked.
Monday was the first day of the new live "SportsCenter," a six-hour block beginning at 9 a.m. Et that on weekdays replaces the "SportsCenter" repeats that had run there for years. It's part of a new effort for the network to shore up its live programming during the day and jump on sport stories that break before the 6 p.m. "SportsCenter."
That means Espn and its franchise program starts its day even earlier. The first employees roll into the network's sprawling suburban Connecticut campus around midnight, as the finishing touches are being put on the preparations for the night's final "SportsCenter" beginning at 2 a.m. The late crew gives way to the morning shift that each day will provide six hours of live sports news.
It's the first time that "SportsCenter" has ever been produced that long for that regular a period of time. But they're not reinventing the wheel, said Mark Gross, managing editor of studio production.
"Is it going to be different? Yes. Is it going to be dramatically different? No. It's still going to be scores and highlights," he said.
There are some new features, including a strong link to the new SportsCenter Web site, an interview with an Espn analyst taking viewers' questions called "In Box," and "Word on the Street," talking to an Espn Radio talk show host from around the country. Monday's topic? How Green Bay, Wis., is weathering life after Brett Favre.
Doing a live "SportsCenter" daytime block was on the boards for years, but the network decided this spring that the time finally was right.
It hired veteran sports broadcaster and former "Early Show" co-host Hannah Storm, who anchors the 9 a.m.-noon telecast with Josh Elliott. The broadcast is then passed off to Chris McKendry and Robert Flores for the back three hours. Monday was chosen as the premiere because it's at the beginning of the Summer Olympics, plus near the start of football season and in the stretch of baseball's pennant race.
On Monday, there was no breaking news and only a handful of dropped balls. Favre led off the first newscast, with the U.S. swim team's stunning come-from-behind victory in the men's 4x100 freestyle relay and Team USA's opening victory over host nation China in men's basketball near the top.
Storm and Elliott were in almost constant motion, between two desks and two standup locations. They interviewed in short order former NFL player Cris Carter in the studio, reporter Jeremy Schaap in Beijing and baseball reporter Buster Olney, among others.
Because of the NBC-abc trade that allowed Al Michaels go to "Sunday Night Football" and ABC to have, among other things, Oswalt the Rabbit, Espn has been able to run six minutes of Olympics highlights per hour, up dramatically from years' past. "SportsCenter" used that to full effect with an extend play and several camera angles of Sunday's thrilling relay finish.
It's a dizzying pace, and one that Storm said after the telecast was thrilling and challenging. Storm started full-time work at Espn only at the beginning of the month and estimated that there were only about eight rehearsals before hitting the air. Some of the rehearsals by Flores and McKendry ended up going on the air because of last week's Favre trade to the New York Jets.
"We only had one or two days where we actually did try to pull off a three-hour rehearsal," Storm said.
Previous plans had Espn start the live "SportsCenter" at 6 a.m. Et, but several weeks ago those earlier three hours were scrapped. Gross said the network decided that it wouldn't start out doing 6-9 a.m. but might review it in the next six months.
"The beauty is that we have a whole crew of people in place" in case breaking news forces Espn on the air earlier than 9 am., he said.
It's also hoped that the live nature of the show boosts the ratings after 9, when in the past the re-air ratings dipped. Ratings range from 0.5 in households between 6-9 a.m. to 0.4 at 11 a.m., Nielsen Media Research said. The 10 a.m. re-air averages a 0.6.
"We think there is more upside to the 9 a.m. start," Gross said.
For Storm, her first live three hours brought back memories of the excitement and responsibility when she worked at CNN. She also said she enjoyed writing the script and doing other preparation for the sports show, which she hasn't done in six years or so.
But there was one challenge to the whole "SportsCenter" routine. There's no time to get food, so she brought her own: nuts, fruit and the like.
"I didn't like going three hours without eating," she joked.
- 8/11/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York -- Espn has scaled back slightly on its plans for a daylong live "SportsCenter" block.
The Bristol, Conn.-based sports powerhouse told employees Wednesday that it would produce six hours of live "SportsCenter" a day during the daytime. The previous plan, announced at Espn's upfront presentation in May in New York, was for nine hours Monday-Friday beginning at 6 a.m. Et.
But Espn executives realized, a month before the show was to debut, that the first three hours of "SportsCenter" between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. wouldn't be that much of a change from the last live "SportsCenter" from the night before that repeats in the mornings currently.
"It felt like a better use of our resources" to concentrate on the 9 a.m.-3 p.m. block, an Espn spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. He pointed out that there would still be 30 new hours of live "SportsCenter" every week.
Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott will continue to anchor the 9 a.m.-noon block, as Robert Flores and Chris McKendry will be the co-anchors of the later block. The scheduled early anchors, Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, will be reassigned to other jobs at Espn. No one, either in front of the camera or behind it, will lose their jobs.
The Bristol, Conn.-based sports powerhouse told employees Wednesday that it would produce six hours of live "SportsCenter" a day during the daytime. The previous plan, announced at Espn's upfront presentation in May in New York, was for nine hours Monday-Friday beginning at 6 a.m. Et.
But Espn executives realized, a month before the show was to debut, that the first three hours of "SportsCenter" between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. wouldn't be that much of a change from the last live "SportsCenter" from the night before that repeats in the mornings currently.
"It felt like a better use of our resources" to concentrate on the 9 a.m.-3 p.m. block, an Espn spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. He pointed out that there would still be 30 new hours of live "SportsCenter" every week.
Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott will continue to anchor the 9 a.m.-noon block, as Robert Flores and Chris McKendry will be the co-anchors of the later block. The scheduled early anchors, Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, will be reassigned to other jobs at Espn. No one, either in front of the camera or behind it, will lose their jobs.
- 7/9/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Less than two months before "SportsCenter" goes live in the weekday mornings, ESPN has filled out its anchoring teams.
In May, ESPN said that former NBC Sports and CBS "Early Show" anchor Hannah Storm would join the network and anchor the 9 a.m.-noon edition of "SportsCenter". She now will be joined by Josh Elliott in that time period.
Taking the early (6 a.m.-9 a.m.) shift will be Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, with Chris McKendry and Robert Flores co-anchoring the noon-3 p.m. "SportsCenter". Storm will be off Fridays in the fall and will anchor Sunday Morning "SportsCenter" on NFL days. She'll be replaced on those days by Sage Steele, who also will do updates every 20 minutes from 6 a.m. and noon weekdays.
That will launch Aug. 11, the opening week of the Beijing Olympics. Since January 1996, "SportsCenter" has been in repeats in the mornings on ESPN.
In May, ESPN said that former NBC Sports and CBS "Early Show" anchor Hannah Storm would join the network and anchor the 9 a.m.-noon edition of "SportsCenter". She now will be joined by Josh Elliott in that time period.
Taking the early (6 a.m.-9 a.m.) shift will be Linda Cohn and Steve Berthiaume, with Chris McKendry and Robert Flores co-anchoring the noon-3 p.m. "SportsCenter". Storm will be off Fridays in the fall and will anchor Sunday Morning "SportsCenter" on NFL days. She'll be replaced on those days by Sage Steele, who also will do updates every 20 minutes from 6 a.m. and noon weekdays.
That will launch Aug. 11, the opening week of the Beijing Olympics. Since January 1996, "SportsCenter" has been in repeats in the mornings on ESPN.
- 6/20/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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