Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: Barry Melrose Unexpectedly Retires

2023-10-11 Thread Tom Wolper
I noticed last hockey season he was going through a cognitive decline. On highlights packages he couldn’t keep up with the action and he frequently got teams and players wrong. The studio hosts were gentle in correcting him and I figured they felt he earned going out on his own terms. On Tue, Oct

[TV orNotTV] SportsTV: Barry Melrose Unexpectedly Retires

2023-10-10 Thread Joe Hass
His diagnosis of Parkinson's disease is why. After over a quarter century doing hockey (including the NCAA playoffs) on ESPN, especially when the NHL was considered sport non grata. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/38625766/espn-barry-melrose-retires-parkinson-disease-diagnosis -- You receive