Stuart Scott, Pioneering ESPN Anchor, Dead at 49
Longtime ESPN anchor Stuart Scott died this morning at the age of 49 after a lengthy battle with cancer, the network reports.
Happy Birthday
Super-publicist Peggy Siegal is turning 62 today. David Hasselhoff turns 57. Donald Sutherland is 74. Producer Mark Burnett is 49. Phyllis Diller is 92. Defense attorney Peter Neufeld is turning turns 59. Linda Gibbs, the Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services, is turning 50 today. Comedian Beth Littleford is 41. …
Happy Birthday
Two members of the Gossip Girl gang are celebrating birthdays today: Chace Crawford is 23 and Kristen Bell is 28. Steve Forbes, who is not on Gossip Girl (but could very well be a fan? Steve?) turns 61 today. Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman will be 64, New York's Adam Platt will turn 50, and Joe Torre will…
Stuart Scott
Scott is a sportscaster on ESPN and anchors the network's flagship SportsCenter as well as NFL Prime Time on Monday nights. He's known for his flashy announcing style which incorporates everything from hip hop references to poetry, as well as his catchphrase, "Boo-yah!"
Microsoft hires a CIO who stood up to Ballmer
At most companies, the post of chief information officer is a humdrum administrative job, making sure that the servers running the CEO's BlackBerry don't go down. At Microsoft, add to that this burden: Serving as a part-time shill for the company's products. If anyone could change that, it may be Tony Scott, freshly…
Microsoft not letting the door hit former employees on their way to Google
Stuart Scott, Microsoft's former CIO, is not the only Microsoft employee unceremoniously being shown the door. Some staffers who are putting in their notice are being escorted off campus immediately. Why? Because they've put in their notice to join Google. In Microsoft's eyes, Google is Enemy No. 1. Anyone leaving…
How Microsoft knifed its CIO
The Stuart Scott affair has gotten deeper. The latest wrinkle in the firing of Microsoft's CIO? A source close to Scott now claims that he was indeed on leave at the time of his dismissal — because of his sister's death. Scott was traveling to her funeral when the news broke. "Microsoft seems to have arranged the…
Microsoft's department of internal affairs
As CNBC bureau chief Jim Goldman chatted with me about the abrupt sacking of Stuart Scott as Microsoft's CIO, I reminded him of another high-level firing. Remember Martin Taylor? A right-hand man to CEO Steve Ballmer and Microsoft's point person on its anti-Linux campaign, Taylor and Microsoft "parted ways" — code…
Microsoft CIO, underling took family leave before firing
We've already got one theory on why Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott was fired. He and a VP-level direct report both recently took "emergency family leave," says a tipster. But the family leave was a ruse, our tipster claims, meant to cover up the fact that the two were having an affair. According to Directions on…
Why did Microsoft sack its CIO?
Heard of Stuart Scott? No, not the lazy-eyed Stuart Scott of ESPN fame, but the wandering-eyed CIO of Microsoft fame. He's been sacked from his chief information officer job at Microsoft after joining the company in 2005. Microsoft will only say:
