Les Shapiro

Leslie Mark Shapiro (March 4, 1956 – January 29, 2022) was an American sports media figure, an anchor for CBS Sports, and a host of the ESPN radio talk program in Denver, Colorado. He was the play-by-play voice of the Bradley University athletic teams in Peoria, Illinois, before obtaining the post of sports anchor on the Denver CBS owned-and-operated station, KCNC-TV, and later the Fox affiliate KDVR, both of which featured him as the voice of the Denver Broncos. He was a frequent master of ceremonies for charitable events in the Denver area.

Early life Shapiro was born in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Morton Grove, Illinois, Skokie, Illinois, and Wilmette, Illinois. He was graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in mass communication. Shapiro was noted for mentoring other local reporters and broadcasters, such as Adam Schefter and Vic Lombardi. where he died on the afternoon of January 29, 2022, having suffered from lung cancer for five years,