Sports | Top 10 Examiners Conclude Cause of Death for Daryl Hawks By Andrew Gauthier on Aug. 10, 2011 - 9:11 AM Medical examiners have concluded that WMAQ sports anchor Daryl Hawks died of a heart attack. On May 12th, Hawks, 38, was found unresponsive in a hotel room in Atlanta, where he was covering the Bulls’ playoff series with the ...
NBC Affiliates | Sports | Top 10 WMAQ Replaces Daryl Hawks with a Familiar Face By Andrew Gauthier on Jul. 27, 2011 - 10:38 AM WMAQ has filled the position left vacant by recently deceased sports anchor Daryl Hawks, and the NBC O&O didn’t have to look very far. According to Chicago media blogger Robert Feder, the station has promoted longtime pa ...
Sports | Top 10 With Questions Lingering, Hawks Family Passes Father’s Day Without Daryl By Andrew Gauthier on Jun. 20, 2011 - 12:06 PM Jasmine and CJ Hawks spent this past Father’s Day without their father Daryl, the WMAQ sports anchor who died unexpectedly last month, as Sunday marked yet another day of mourning as well as mystery for Daryl’s two you ...
NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Sports WGRZ Remembers Buffalo Native Daryl Hawks By Andrew Gauthier on May. 17, 2011 - 4:00 PM WGRZ honored Chicago sports anchor Daryl Hawks in a story this week (video above), tracing his career back to the Buffalo. Reporter Claudine Ewing spoke with Hawks’s older brother Harold, who still lives in Buffalo. “H ...
Sports | Top 10 Initial Daryl Hawks Autopsy Inconclusive By Andrew Gauthier on May. 16, 2011 - 12:39 PM The cause of WMAQ sports anchor Daryl Hawks’ death remains a mystery after an autopsy conducted by the medical examiner’s office in Atlanta found no obvious clues to why the 38-year-old was found dead in his Atlanta hotel room ...
NBC Affiliates | Sports | Top 10 Death of Daryl Hawks Reminds Many of Losing Another WMAQ Sports Anchor Nine Years Ago By Andrew Gauthier on May. 13, 2011 - 1:58 PM “I got the call nine years ago, when we lost Darrian,” WMAQ sports reporter Peggy Kusinski said in an interview yesterday with WLS (video above). Fighting back tears, Kusinski remembers thinking “not again” ...
Top 10 How Other Chicago Stations Reported Daryl Hawks’ Death By Chris Ariens on May. 13, 2011 - 1:09 PM The stunning news of the death of NBC5 sportscaster Daryl Hawks was news on WMAQ’s competitors Thursday and into this morning. WBBM-CBS2 reported the news during the sports reports at 5 and 6. At 10pm, Hawks’ death was ...
NBC Affiliates | Sports | Top 10 WMAQ, City of Chicago Mourn Loss of Daryl Hawks By Andrew Gauthier on May. 13, 2011 - 11:59 AM WMAQ, as well as the entire city of Chicago, is mourning the loss of sports anchor Daryl Hawks, who was found dead yesterday in an Atlanta hotel room. The NBC O&O ran segments throughout the day yesterday, remembering the 38-y ...
Sports | Top 10 WMAQ Sports Anchor Daryl Hawks Found Dead By Andrew Gauthier on May. 12, 2011 - 2:12 PM WMAQ sports anchor Daryl Hawks was found dead in an Atlanta hotel room this morning. Hawks, 38, was in town to cover the Bulls’ playoff series with the Atlanta Hawks. After Hawks missed his wake-up call, the WMAQ photographe ...