{"id":113110,"date":"2016-12-20T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=113110"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:32:12","slug":"craig-sager-remembered-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=113110","title":{"rendered":"Craig Sager remembered, Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102538\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sager.jpg\" alt=\"sager\" width=\"127\" height=\"71\" \/>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Longtime TNT broadcaster Craig Sager was remembered for his love of family, sports and colorful attire on Tuesday at a memorial service that produced laughs and tears.<\/p>\n<p>Among those attending the service were San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and members of Sager&#8217;s Turner Sports TV family, including Ernie Johnson and Reggie Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Randy Mickler, former senior pastor of Mount Bethel United Methodist Church in Marietta, Georgia, led the service. Mickler noted he decided against wearing his normal black robe and instead wore a purple shirt and colorful jacket he said would have made Sager &#8220;extremely proud and pleased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sager, 65, died Thursday following a two-year fight with acute myeloid leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>Grammy winner Yolanda Adams sang two songs at the service. Johnson said Sager &#8220;planted sequoias&#8221; by inspiring others with his determined battle against cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Longtime TNT broadcaster Craig Sager was remembered for his love of family, sports and colorful attire on Tuesday at a memorial service that produced laughs and tears. Among those attending the service were San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and members of Sager&#8217;s Turner Sports TV family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113111,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113110\/revisions\/113111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}