"MacArthur had a warmer homecoming," noted the sportscaster Beano Cook.

A recent version with Beano Cook and Bob Costas debating whether baseball was the national pastime provided some typical chuckles.

Beano Cook, 81, American college football historian and television sports analyst (ESPN).

Two of the most memorable predictions in my lifetime have been intoned by Jon Landau and Beano Cook.

Beano Cook, take a look at the record book.

This is justice, said Beano Cook, the ESPN analyst and longtime college football observer.

While earning his degree at Pitt, Gessner became friends with Beano Cook, the University's sports information director.

"This is like having a scandal in the White House," Beano Cook, a college football historian, said.

Beano Cook - commentator (late 1980s)

Beano Cook began a blog in 2010, covering topics other than college football.