V Foundation's 'Boo-Yah' event, a celebration of Stuart Scott, raises record-breaking $3.1 million

NEW YORK CITY -- The V Foundation for Cancer Research raised a record-breaking $3.1 cardinal successful New York Wednesday nighttime astatine its 5th yearly "Boo-Yah" event, a solemnisation of erstwhile ESPN anchor Stuart Scott.

The lawsuit is named successful grant of Scott's drawback operation during his clip arsenic SportsCenter anchor connected ESPN.

Also connected Wednesday, the web debuted "Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott," a caller "30 for 30" movie telling his story, including his crab battle.

"He was forced to combat it and successful specified a nationalist mode due to the fact that helium was specified a immense nationalist figure," said manager and shaper Andre Gaines. "But to bash it with that level of people and that level of grace and to beryllium an inspiration for truthful galore different folks, I mean, determination are many, galore crab survivors contiguous due to the fact that of being inspired by the mode that Stuart fought cancer."

The V Foundation for Cancer Research, founded successful portion by ESPN, draws from that aforesaid inspiration, holding its yearly auction gala successful Manhattan.

"The V Foundation is simply a immense portion of who we are astatine ESPN," said ESPN Chairman James Pitaro. "And each of our employees instrumentality truthful overmuch pridefulness successful the V Foundation successful general, successful presumption of our quality to contribute, wage it forward, wage back."

Ten years aft his death, Stuart Scott's courageousness and his wit proceed to thrust this lawsuit arsenic it adds to the increasing full of much than $400 cardinal the V Foundation has raised for crab research.

"We person a subject a subject advisory committee that is 2nd to none," said Susan Scott, the sister of Stuart Scott, and committee subordinate of the V Foundation. "They accidental the country, I accidental the world. 100% of each dollar of donation goes straight to backing crab research. And we volition ever bash those 2 things."

Susan Scott, her siblings and 90-year-old parent Jackie were portion of the dual solemnisation of the movie debut and gala.

It was hosted by Stuart Scott's erstwhile co-anchor Rich Eisen and ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott, who has nary narration to Stuart Scott.

Pro Football Hall of Famer, broadcaster and crab subsister Randy Moss accepted the inaugural Stuart Scott Impact Award, thanking Scott's ma for raising a crippled changer.

"I'm capable to beryllium myself connected nationalist tv due to the fact that Stuart Scott broke each the barriers and took attraction of that for not conscionable me, but for different radical of colour to beryllium connected television, the vigor and beryllium themselves," Moss said.

Disney is the genitor institution of ESPN and this station.