Dick Schaap's Death

The sportscaster Dick Schaap died at the age of 67. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Author and sportscaster who hosted ESPN’s The Sports Reporters and radio’s The Sporting Life with Dick Schaap.

He had a son, Jeremy, with wife Trish Schaap. Jeremy also went on to become a successful sports reporter.

A Manhattan jury awarded the family of the late award-winning sports journalist Dick Schaap $1.95 million after finding that he died as a result of medical negligence following hip replacement surgery at a New York hospital.

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Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

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If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

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Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950’s when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

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Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn’t Ali.

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Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.