R.I.P.: Edward Aschoff, ESPN Reporter

Edward Aschoff, an ESPN college football reporter known for his lively blog posts and thoughtfully reported features, died on Tuesday after a brief illness, The NY Times reported. It was his 34th birthday.

Edward Aschoff

Aschoff had contracted pneumonia about a month ago, according to his social media posts. “I had a virus for two weeks. Fever and cough and the doctors think it turned into this multifocal pneumonia recently,” he tweeted on Dec. 5, noting that he rarely gets sick and had been taking antibiotics.

In a statement, ESPN said the network was “very sorry to have to share the devastating news of the tragic passing of friend and ESPN colleague Edward Aschoff.”

“Our thoughts are with his loved ones, including his fiancée Katy,” ESPN said.

In middle school, Mr. Aschoff was inspired to become a sports journalist by the prominent “SportsCenter” anchor Stuart Scott, who died in 2015.

He graduated from the University of Florida in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and covered University of Florida football, basketball and baseball for The Gainesville Sun from 2007 to 2011, according to the university.

Aschoff joined ESPN in 2011, according to the network. In addition to writing stories, he would appear on television and radio for the network and earned a reputation for being the “most dapperly dressed person,” ESPN reported.