Fox NFL analyst Mark Sanchez was hospitalized in critical condition after being stabbed overnight in Indianapolis, according to TMZ, but is now in stable condition per Fox Sports.
Sanchez is in Indianapolis to cover Sunday’s Raiders-Colts game on FOX. TMZ characterized his injuries as “severe” in a headline and as “critical” in the body of its report, but Fox said later that he is “recovering” and in “stable condition.”
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Sanchez was set to call Sunday’s game alongside play-by-play voice Chris Myers and sideline reporter Kristina Pink. He joined Fox Sports in 2021 and worked for ESPN/ABC the prior two years.
Broadcasters have been injured on their way to or from a game — Marv Albert and Mike Fratello were both hospitalized in 2002 after their limo crashed on their way back from a Sixers-Pacers broadcast on TNT — but a television analyst being injured in an altercation while on-site for a game broadcast would seem to be unprecedented.
The Sanchez situation was not the only brush with disaster faced by a Fox Sports analyst this weekend. Fox college football analyst Robert Griffin III said Friday that he and his family were in “the worst car accident of [their] lives.” He added Saturday that he has two vertebrae fractures in his back. But he nonetheless said he would be on the air covering the Colorado-TCU game for FOX.
