Stroke can’t keep ESPN commentator Lee Corso down

"Coney dogs and cotton candy, that’s the good life,” Corso said.

Fortunately for Corso, 73, who has been with "College GameDay” since its 1987 debut, he hasn’t had to alter his diet while rehabilitating from a stroke May 16.

"I feel great,” he said. "I run all the time. I weightlift all the time. I haven’t had a single thing wrong with me except my brain.”

He said the "brain problem,” suffered while at his central Florida home, was a surprise.

"I got up in the morning and I went to get a newspaper,” Corso said. "I walked back in kind of wobbly. And I sat down and I couldn’t talk — a bunch of gibberish coming out.”

After three days in intensive care and another week in the hospital, Corso was released to begin occupational, physical and speech therapy. Corso, who also has had difficulty with his right hand, was able to return to the air Sept. 5 for ESPN’s "College GameDay” season debut from Atlanta.

Known for his "not so fast my friend!” line in sparring with fellow analyst Kirk Herbstreit, Corso now talks slower and has trouble speaking off the top of his head.

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