RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Fallen Angel: Popular sports broadcaster Rory Marcus dies from heart attack at age 53

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Fallen Angel: Popular sports broadcaster Rory Marcus dies from heart attack at age 53

I was saddened to learn today that popular Los Angeles Angels and USC basketball announcer Rory Markas has passed away from an apparent heart attack he suffered this morning.

Markas was just 56 years old.

Markas was found dead at his home early this morning in Palmdale, California.

Late last year he was hospitalized for a blood clot in his brain. It is not known if that contributed to his death.

He had recently been named the full-time #1 TV announcer for the Angels after spending 11 years doing radio and TV for the club. He had also been the radio voice of USC basketball since 2000. Markas was previously a local TV sports news anchor and announced L.A. Clippers games.

This has been a sad year for the Angels.

Popular pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a car accident in Fullerton at the start of the 2009 baseball campaign. I will miss Rory on television and on the radio covering the Angels! RIP

Randy Economy

1 comment:

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”