Fred Hickman, a skilled and affable journalist with CNN’s “Sports Tonight” who was one of the first Black people to anchor a national cable sports broadcast, died on Nov. 9 in Kissimmee, Fla. His wife, Sheila Bowers Hickman, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was liver cancer. Mr. Hickman would later work at the YES Network, the Yankees’ channel, and at ESPN. But he was best known for his 21 years at CNN, a network that was otherwise devoted to national and international news. “We were a sports show in the context of news,” Mr. Hickman told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2000, referring to being on a network with no other sports programming.

Source: CNN November 17, 2022 01:45 UTC