Ten years ago today a legend in the college football media world left us as Beano Cook passed away. The 1954 University of Pittsburgh graduate went on to become one the most recognizable faces ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- 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 information ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - 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 information ...

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Beano Cook, the former ABC and CBS publicist who became an ABC and ESPN studio commentator, had fascinating stories about myriad facets of sports and TV from over a half-century spent in the business.

PITTSBURGH — Carroll H. “Beano” Cook, a colorful sports commentator known by many as the pope of college football, has died. He was 81. His death was announced by the University of Pittsburgh. Cook ...

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, "I ...

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 was ...

As ABC and ESPN expanded coverage of college football in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Cook – the “unmade bed” with a voice “like a plumbing fixture gargling Drano” – left an indelible impression on those who ...

I didn’t actually see him, so I won’t believe it until I do, but apparently Beano Cook is trying to make a comeback on the leader. Student Body Right found this throwaway at the end of Hiestand’s ...