The last text message Adam Amin received from his father came on March 5, 2018. It said the usual: “What time, what channel?”
Amin had a pair of American Athletic Conference women’s tournament semifinals to call that day in Uncasville, Connecticut, the first one on ESPNU and the second on ESPN2.
Mohammed Amin, then 80, would be eager to tune in. When it came to watching his fourth and youngest child — his baby boy — work, he always was.
During the second of those games, Adam Amin — all of 31 at the time and proving himself as one of the finest young broadcasters in ESPN’s stable — missed a call from the middle of his three older brothers.