Everett: ‘Jump off a Iarge rock and it’s terrifying until you hit the water, and then it’s exhilarating. That’s where I am right now”
It was the end of an era on June 23 at the ESPN studio in Los Angeles.
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The 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket is out.
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Neil Everett was on the way out of his home in Mar Vista, Calif., for a late afternoon walk with the family dog.
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Neil Everett has long followed the Portland Trail Blazers. The veteran ESPN SportsCenter anchor was born in Portland (though raised in Spokane), schooled at Willamette University and the University of Oregon and owns a vacation home with wife Stephanie in Seaside.
With Neil Everett and Dewayne Hankins, talking Blazer broadcasting for 2021-22
Summing up the Blazer broadcasting scene for the upcoming season — and there are plenty of changes …
• Neil Everett sounded like a kid in a candy store when I caught up with him via phone while he was at his vacation cottage in Seaside.
“I just found a vintage Trail Blazers jacket at an antique store in town,” Everett told me. “I don’t know what year it’s from, but it has to be 30 to 40 years old and it looks like it’s never been worn. I’m so fired up.”
Everett paid $300 for the jacket.