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Rece Davis Praying For Former ESPN College GameDay Colleague

Originally posted on The Spun | By Matt Hladik | Last updated Mar 11, 2025 12:01 PM ET

Rece Davis is one of the latest ESPN personalities offering up prayers for a former colleague and his wife.

Davis has been the host of College GameDay since 2015. For eight seasons, he worked alongside David Pollack on the popular college football pregame show, up until Pollack was laid off by ESPN in the summer of 2023.

On Monday, Pollack shared the heartbreaking news on social media that his wife Lindsey is undergoing surgery for brain cancer.

"I do not share much of my personal life on social media but today is gonna be different," Pollack wrote on X/Twitter. "If you are the praying type please lift up my wife Lindsey. She has brain cancer and surgery is Wednesday at Duke. So thankful to serve a loving God that meets us in our struggles!"

CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 25: ESPN College Gameday personality David Pollack watches film during an on air segment prior to a college football game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Wisconsin Badgers on September 25th, 2021 at Solider Field in Chicago, IL. (Photo by Dan Sanger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Icon Sportswire/Getty Images

Several ESPN employees, including Field Yates, Dan Orlovsky, Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit, sent over their best wishes, with Davis joining them Monday afternoon.

"We will be steadfast in prayer. So many people love you, Lindsey and your entire family. Psalm 130:2," he wrote.

Pollack, who has hosted his own podcast since leaving ESPN, usually reserves his social media for sharing his opinions on sports, society and religion, but made an obvious exception for the serious fight his wife is facing.

We will be steadfast in prayer. So many people love you, Lindsey and your entire family. Psalm 130:2 https://t.co/jta6gJASgG
— Rece Davis (@ReceDavis) March 10, 2025

Among the ESPN family members who reached out to Pollack on social media, Herbstreit, who worked with Pollack and Davis on GameDay, sadly knows what his former coworker is going through.

The longtime analyst's wife Ali was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.

“I haven’t really talked about this publicly, but Ali my wife faced some stuff. It’s been a tough year for me behind the scenes,” Herbstreit told Pat McAfee in January.

“My wife got diagnosed with breast cancer, Ben dies, it was just a lot of emotion. And when you do what we do, you endure. You do your job. And I think what happened, I couldn’t predict it, but when they won … it was like almost, I don’t know, maybe a release of all that pent-up stuff. And it just got the best of me. I’m an emotional guy in general and when things touch my heart, I’m not good at talking when that happens.”

This article first appeared on The Spun and was syndicated with permission.

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