Les Shapiro, an icon in the Colorado broadcasting scene for nearly the past fourty years, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 65.
The longtime television personality was most-recogniziable for covering the Colorado Buffaloes at KCNC-TV CBS 4 from 1984 to 1999. He would later take on anchor duties for rival station FOX 31 before making his way to the radio airwaves with ESPN Denver and Mile High Sports.
Shapiro passed away Saturday afternoon peacefully surrounded by his family in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a five-year battle with lung cancer, a disease spawned after never smoking a day in his life.