New Orleans journalist Ed Daniels dead at 67 [Video]

A longtime New Orleans sports reporter and broadcast television anchor has died. Ed Daniels died at the age of 67 on Friday. Daniels suffered an apparent heart attack while covering the New Orleans Saints training camp in Irvine, California. He was flown back to New Orleans, where he later died at an area hospital. Daniels had more than four decades of experience covering sports in the New Orleans area. A Rummel High School graduate, his career began in 1977 in New Orleans. He would then become the sports director at KPLC in Lake Charles before joining WDSU in 1982. Daniels co-hosted a popular New Orleans Saints sports show with Ro Brown in the 80s before he was promoted to weekend sports anchor in 1983. He joined WGNO in 1991, where he remained for the rest of his career as sports director. In 2014, Daniels received the Lifetime Achievement Award from …