Barstool Sports activities persona Cody ‘Beef' Franke has died at age 31.
“Barstool misplaced a member of our household this weekend. Simply tragic information. You'll by no means discover a nicer extra real particular person than Beef,” the corporate shared in a statement to social media on Monday, October 27. “It's onerous to even course of it proper now. Simply one other merciless reminder that tomorrow isn't promised and to stay every day to its fullest.”
Barstool additionally shared an extended assertion, providing extra particulars into the circumstances surrounding Franke's dying.
“We're past devastated to announce that our expensive pal and beloved Barstool Sports activities colleague, Cody ‘Beef' Franke, handed away from a sudden medical challenge over the weekend,” the assertion learn, detailing the late social media star's love of golf.
“He selflessly spent a lot of his life serving to others enhance and benefit from the recreation. Watching golf deliver folks happiness introduced him happiness, and that infectious persona was felt by everybody who met him,” the assertion continued. “He was universally generally known as the nicest man on this planet.”
Franke was the “head golf skilled” for the “Fore Play” podcast, hosted by Barstool personalities Trent Ryan, Riggs Bozoian, Frankie Borrelli and Dan Rapaport.
“From his time as a PGA Skilled to his time at Barstool Sports activities, Cody made so many individuals snigger, he made so many individuals smile and he merely made so many individuals higher,” the assertion continued. “Our heartfelt ideas are with Cody's whole household and family members.”
The corporate concluded, writing, “We'll be eradicating our hats for Cody right now and on a regular basis. Relaxation in peace to the classiest man we knew.”
The “Fore Play” podcast shared the assertion to their very own social media account.
“We're past devastated to announce that our good pal and cherished Barstool Sports activities colleague, Cody “Beef” Franke, handed away from a sudden medical challenge over the weekend,” they wrote.
The PGA Tour official Instagram shared their condolences in a remark as nicely.
“Beef was an unimaginable member of the golf group,” they wrote. “Our ideas are along with his household and pals.”
A number of of the present's hosts even posted their very own tributes on Instagram.
“Completely heartbreaking,” Riggs wrote. “Been onerous to course of shedding one of many nicest guys I've ever identified. Feeling closely for Cody's household right now.”
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Borrelli's Instagram Story caption learn, “Beef made everybody else's life higher. The nicest man I've ever had the privilege of assembly. Inconceivable to course of this heartbreaking information.”
Ryan, in the meantime, wrote that he was “simply devastated” in his Instagram Story submit.
Dan “Huge Cat” Katz additionally addressed Franke's dying throughout Monday's “The Yak” livestream. (He additionally confirmed that footage from Barstool's first-ever Web Invitational will probably be launched with Franke's inclusion proven.)
“Only a nice dude to hang around with and actually a type of guys you'll keep in mind ceaselessly as a result of he was a type of ‘everybody's pal' guys,” he mentioned. “This firm is a bizarre place. Lots of people are at one another's throats. Beef was a type of guys that was simply pals with everybody and a terrific nice dude. It's actually actually unhappy.”
