Longtime ESPN anchor Jay Harris said Thursday he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery next week. (Watch the video below.)
The “SportsCenter” veteran said on “Good Morning America” he’ll be away from work for about a month, “and then I’m coming back better than ever.”
Asked by host Michael Strahan about the prognosis, Harris replied, “My doctor is quite optimistic. Per my last scan, nothing has spread. So once we take out the prostate, hopefully that’ll be it.”
Harris, 60, has been on the “SportsCenter” desk since 2003.
He said he wanted to share his diagnosis to encourage Black men to get the conversation going about their health issues.
“By not talking about them,” he said, “we … sentence ourselves to death by not talking.”
