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Darren Dutchyshen, Longtime Canadian TV Sports Anchor, Dies at 57 – IMDb

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Darren Dutchyshen, Longtime Canadian TV Sports Anchor, Dies at 57 – IMDb

Darren Dutchyshen, the longtime television sports anchor with Canada’s The Sports Network, has died. He was 57 years of age.

“He passed as he was surrounded by his closest loved ones. His sharp wit remained until his final moments, classically delivering plenty of jokes — most of them pretty good and all of them inappropriate,” the Dutchyshen family said in a statement on Thursday.

Tsn, where Dutchyshen had been host of its Sportscentre show since 1995, did not give an immediate word on the cause or place of death for the popular sportscaster. But Dutchyshen first announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2021 on X, formerly Twitter. That forced him to sharply reduce his on-air duties at Tsn.

“Darren Dutchyshen was a legend of Canadian sports broadcasting, a great teammate and an essential part of Tsn for the last three decades,” Stewart Johnston, senior vp, sales & sports at Bell Media,…

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