Dave Portnoy and the Barstool Sports family are mourning the loss of one of their own this week. Jonathan Stanko, a senior production assistant at the company since May 2021, passed away on Monday after a brief battle with cancer.

Dave Portnoy, the President of Barstool Sports, stopped at a Baltimore pizza shop this week for a review and committed to gifting the owner $60,000 to keep the store open for another year.

Barstool Sports employee Jonathan Stanko has died at the age of 32 after a battle with cancer, company founder Dave Portnoy said Tuesday. “Really sad news from the world of Barstool,” Portnoy wrote on X.

Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy announced the death of one of his employees on Monday, prompting widespread grief online. Portnoy took to social media to reveal that Jonathan Stanko passed away after a battle with cancer.