This is just so, so awful. Jeff Dickerson, a sports reporter and journalist who covered the Chicago Bears of the NFL for the last two decades, has died from complications of colon cancer.
He was 44 years old. Related: Nick Cannon Opens Up About Infant Son’s Brief Life Cut Short By Brain Cancer Dickerson had joined ESPN Chicago way back in 2001 to cover the city’s professional football franchise, and left his mark as a “true professional” covering the team for two decades before he succumbed to this horrible disease.
Even more tragically, the sports journo, who was placed in a hospice care home last week, died at the same facility where his wife Caitlin Dickerson (pictured above) had tragically died two years prior.
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