DoD Warrior Games featuring Jon Stewart and Hannah Storm on ESPN

Scott Cooper's Grand Slam

Member
SoSH Member
Jul 12, 2008
4,263
New England
I haven't watched SportsCenter regularly since Rich Eisen and Stuart Scott were behind the desk, but I might actually tune in on Friday Night. Jon Stewart and Hannah Storm will co-anchor the 7 PM SportsCenter, which will be broadcasting live from the site of the DoD Warrior Games.

Washington Post said:
Stewart and Storm will do the show from Chicago’s United Center, site of the 2017 Warrior Games. The event, organized by the Department of Defense and featuring 265 wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans, began on June 30 and ends Saturday.

[...]

Stewart attended last year’s Warrior Games, held at West Point, and he recently told the Chicago Tribune that he had the idea then that they should be televised on ESPN. “It was great, but it was [just] the athletes, their families, their caregivers and it felt like something that the public should be involved in,” Stewart said.

“On the way home, I was saying, ‘This is where the cameras should be, this would be perfect for ESPN.’ And my son just said, ‘Well, why don’t you call them?’”
From the Washington Post.

ESPN's mainstream sports coverage is awful (as has been covered ad nauseam) but this is reason enough for me to hold my nose and tune in. I'm in the target demographic for professional gaming and drone racing, but I don't get the appeal. I'd love to see more people (especially athletes with disabilities and other underrepresented groups) competing on TV