Francis Hearn, or as the world knows him, Chick Hearn, is the man that changed the sports broadcasting game forever. He gave the world a word’s-eye view of the game… more specifically, our game. He changed the way in which Lakers fans experienced basketball, and for that we are eternally grateful.
Every year, we remember the man that brought, “The game’s in the refrigerator..., The mustard came off the hotdog, and couldn’t throw a pea into the ocean,” into our lives by awarding two deserving broadcast journalism students at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism with the Chick Hearn Memorial Scholarship.