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FILE – The Barstool Sports logo on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. ( Gabby Jones\/Bloomberg via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
Cody “Beef” Franke, a popular Barstool Sports personality, died suddenly over the weekend,\u00a0according to multiple reports.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Franke died due to “a sudden medical issue,” the Fore Play podcast announced on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Franke was in the Dominican Republic attending a wedding before his death,\u00a0according to a TMZ report.<\/a><\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Barstool Sports founder, Dave Portnoy, confirmed\u00a0Franke\u2019s death on X.<\/a><\/p>\n “Barstool lost a member of our family this weekend.\u00a0 Just tragic news.\u00a0 You will never find a nicer more genuine person than Beef.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to even process it right now. Just another cruel reminder that tomorrow is never promised and to live each day to its fullest,” the tweet read.\u00a0<\/p>\n Who is Cody \u2018Beef\u2019 Franke? <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Franke was originally from Chicago, Illinois, and spent several years as a PGA of America Golf Professional. He mainly worked at clubs in California and Wisconsin, according to a\u00a0March 2025 PGA profile.<\/a><\/p>\n In December 2024,\u00a0Franke announced he would be joining\u00a0<\/a>the Fore Play Golf Podcast as their new Head Golf Professional.<\/p>\n Franke began playing golf when he was just three years old, alongside his brother. He completed the PGA Golf Management program at Ferris State University in Michigan before getting his first full-time position at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Southern California.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this article was taken from reporting by TMZ and People magazine. A biography about Franke\u2019s career on the PGA website also contributed. This story was reported from San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sports<\/a>News<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE – The Barstool Sports logo on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,44,82],"class_list":["post-244329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}