Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Former ESPN personality Dan Le Batard dropped heartbreaking news on Tuesday at the beginning of the local hour of "The Dan Le Batard with Stugotz" podcast, saying his brother, David, had died.
David Le Batard, affectionately known as 'LEBO,' was 50. LEBO was responsible for creating all the artwork in Meadowlark Media’s studio, and the ESPN studio the crew hosted the show from in South Beach before they broke from the network.
His bio on his website says he is the "innovator of postmodern carton expressionism." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Dan Le Batard arrives at Shaq's Fun House at Mana Wynwood Convention Center on Jan.
31, 2020 in Miami. (Jason Koerner/Getty Images) "My little brother, my only sibling, my closest family member in a very small family, responsible for all the art around here, and my best friend for 50 years passed away last night at 2:00 a.m.," Dan Le Batard said to start the show. "I don’t have a lot of experience with grief, but I have been grieving him for a year because when he was diagnosed more than a year ago he’s been steadily deteriorating since, and it’s been brutally hard to watch a poison eat him up from the inside, and one of the biggest spirits I’ve ever seen consumed by illness." As he sought "laughter" from his co-hosts and producers, the sports personality grimly noted he was "preparing for the death" of his parents and choked up when he revealed his father told his brother "we’ll see you soon." PAUL PIERCE TALKS RACY VIDEO THAT LED TO ESPN DISMISSAL: 'WE ALL MAKE SOME MISTAKES' David "LEBO" Le Batard attends the South Beach Comedy Festival VIP party at the Delano