Yesterday ESPN sports commentator, Stuart Scott, gave an acceptance speech after winning the Jimmy V Perseverance award at the ESPYs. Scott received the award after a long bout with cancer. Stuart Scott’s fight with cancer had been so tumultuous that he was unsure that he would make it, “I just got out of the hospital this past Friday… I had liver complications. I had kidney failure. I had four surgeries in a span of seven days… As of Sunday, I didn’t even know if I’d make it here,” Scott said. Despite the afflictions of the terrible disease, Scott was able to deliver the momentous speech.
Stuart Scott spoke about his experiences with cancer, the value of life and loved ones, and his experience through his illness. Scott urges the audience repeatedly to “Fight like hell,” for life and to allow your loved ones to help you in your fight. The theme of fighting is embedded throughout Scott’s speech, along with the value family provides in helping one another through struggle.
Stuart Scott’s speech is fundamentally about relying on the care and love of one’s family to get through difficult times. Scott cares about how one lives rather than the result of the fight in the difficult times, “when you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live,” Scott said.
Here’s the lead, Joe:
Despite the afflictions of the terrible disease, Scott was able
to deliver the momentous speech.
The news is WHAT he said, not that he gave a speech.
You also note, “The theme of fighting is embedded throughout
Scott’s speech,” so that too could have been an aspect of the lead.
Just the last name after first reference.
You include the necessary elements.