Barry Melrose’s time at ESPN has been put on indefinite pause as he battles Parkinson’s disease.
John Buccigross, a fellow hockey fanatic and ESPN employee, released a video Tuesday afternoon announcing to the world that Melrose “is stepping away from our ESPN family to spend more time with his family” as he battles the disease.
“I’ve worked with Barry at ESPN for over a quarter century. Cold beers and hearty laughs in smokey cigar bars. A razor sharp wit, he was always early & looked like a million bucks. I love him.
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Longtime ESPN hockey analyst Barry Melrose is stepping down at the network following a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, according to his good friend and colleague John Buccigross.
“Barry Melrose has Parkinson’s disease and is stepping away from our ESPN family to spend more time with his,” Buccigross began in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
“I’ve worked with Barry at ESPN for over a quarter century. Cold beers and hearty laughs in smoky cigar bars. A razor sharp wit, he was always early & looked like a million bucks. I love him. I’ll miss him.
Michigan Wolverines assistant Saddi Washington said Tuesday at Big Ten media day that there is “no timetable” for the return of coach Juwan Howard, who had heart surgery last month.
RB De’Von Achane is expected to miss multiple weeks for the Dolphins and could land on injured reserve, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Vikings WR Justin Jefferson is going on IR with a hamstring injury, sources confirmed to ESPN, which would keep him out of the next four games.
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones acknowledged there is a gap between his team and the 49ers but said he still believes in Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott.
The Patriots have been outscored 72–3 over the last two weeks and are off to a 1-4 start, tying the team’s worst record through five games in Bill Belichick’s tenure as head coach.
There are many reasons for New England’s poor start to the year, including bad offensive line play, a lack of a running game, the inability for receivers to separate at the line of scrimmage and the struggles of quarterback Mac Jones.
While there’s plenty of blame to go around, as the team’s starting quarterback, Jones has stood out as a piece that needs improving.
U.S. gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton is “fighting for her life” in the intensive care unit, according to her daughter McKenna Kelley’s Instagram story.
Retton was admitted to the hospital with “a very rare form of pneumonia,” per Kelley’s post on Tuesday afternoon. She added that her mother “is not able to breathe on her own” and has been in the ICU for over a week, ending her story with a plea for prayers.
LeBron James has mentioned a countless number of times that when he retires from playing in the NBA he’d like to bring a franchise to Las Vegas and own the expansion team. Saying ‘I’m going to own an NBA team in Las Vegas’ is easier said than done, however, even for someone as wealthy and influential as LeBron.
On top of the fact that the NBA bringing a team to Sin City is nothing more than hearsay at this point, James isn’t the only person out there who would like to own the hypothetical franchise.