In May, college football, ESPN analyst Lee Corso had a minor stroke. He has since undergone treatment, including learning to write and speak again. But Corso, who is known for his lively commentary as part of the ESPN Gameday crew - along with Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit - says he does not prevent return to the air this year.Corso told George Diaz, The Orlando Sentinel that he planned to be back on Sept. 5, when the Alabama game in Atlanta-Virginia Tech begins the season for the game.
Here is a selection of Diaz's story:
A man who has reinvented himself once before - after a football coach fighting for a guru of glib football field - is plotting another magnificent makeover. He will be back on television after the fall football begins. The ironic twist in the challenge is clear: a charlatan is silenced by a stroke. Her voice, as he says, is "the ultimate for me."
Speak well now. There are some peculiar moments when things do not quite connect, like when he is trying to remember specific moments through the fog of recovery. A key step was a test of swallowing, he says, "within the hotel (pause), inside the airport (pause), within the hospital." Took three times but finally found the right word.
Remains to be seen how the movement will impact air Corso in character, but football fans will be delighted to have him back.
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