Beano Cook, football guru and friend, will be dearly missed Published: Oct 11, 2012 at 04:08 PM. Rick LaBranche Longtime college football analyst Beano Cook died on Thursday. He was 81 ...

Beano Cook, a longtime staple of the Pittsburgh sports scene and an ESPN college football studio commentator since 1986, died Wednesday night. He was 81. Skip to main content Skip to navigation ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Beano Cook, the college football commentator with an encyclopedic knowledge of the sport he dearly loved, has died. The 81-year-old Boston native had worked for ESPN since 1986 ...

PITTSBURGH – Beano Cook, the college football commentator with an encyclopedic knowledge of the sport he dearly loved, has died. The 81-year-old Boston native had worked for ESPN since 1986 and ...

Beano Cook, a fixture of ESPN's college football coverage since 1986 and one of the leading college football historians of his era, died Wednesday night in his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. He was 81.

Beano Cook was a college football treasure, and I use the term with all seriousness. He was a part of its great & colorful tapestry. — ESPN_Pac12blog (@ESPN_Pac12blog) October 11, 2012.

Beano Cook may have been an expert on the history of college football from 1930 to 1990, but the longtime ESPN commentator showed his real expertise in friendship.

Beano Cook, the legendary college football television analyst, passed away in his sleep on Thursday morning. He was 81. The University of Pittsburgh announced that Cook passed on Thursday morning ...

Beano Cook and Joe Paterno once nearly came to blows over a recruit, one who eventually was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Paterno reminded Cook of that incident years, telling him ...

PITTSBURGH — The folksy ESPN college football commentator Carroll “Beano” Cook has died. The 81 year-old commentator had worked for the sports network since 1986 and was the sports ...

Beano Cook, a longtime television commentator on college football who had an encyclopedic knowledge of the sport and a gift for irreverent quips, died in Pittsburgh, where he lived. He was 81. The ...