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 10, 2023 at 5:03 PM Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BdBHQFs_PJ0hJTjKJv2MUc308fcKPP6WJH1kpd5RUDRMQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BdBHQFs_PJ0hJTjKJv2MUc308fcKPP6WJH1kpd5RUDRMQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHxd1KbpDDTNq2FPLS98tber-o7VgEGN-pJ%3DhywdNVFTg%40mail.gmail.com.