The Pac-12 Network is about to go dark. The conference is about to fade into the history books as USC, Oregon, Washington, and UCLA move to the Big Ten. With the Pac-12 Network about to go off the air, longtime network anchor Ashley Adamson wrote a farewell letter published on John Canzano’s Substack (paywalled; subscription required). There’s a poignant remembrance of the late Bill Walton from Adamson, who writes:
In one of my last conversations with the late Bill Walton, he told me the Pac-12 Network saved his life. His spine had failed, he had been fired from every broadcasting job.
“I had spent four and a half years on the floor. Everything was dark. I had no reason to hope anything would be different. And then out of the blue, Larry Scott calls me and said, ‘Bill, we have an idea.’”
That idea — a television network that officially goes dark on Sunday — gave so many of us who worked there real purpose, joy, and a community that will live on forever.
So as sad as it feels to say goodbye, I know it’s just a reminder that the time we spent together really meant something.
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