Dave Portnoy reveals he had cancer in stunning announcement

Dave Portnoy has revealed that he had cancer in a shocking announcement about the 47-year-old’s health.

The Barstool Sports founder, who was wearing a bandage on the left side of his neck, made the startling announcement on “The Dozen Trivia” Wednesday night.

“A lot of pressure. This is all that matters. We’ve been waiting for all season,” Portnoy, who was wearing a bandage on his neck, said of the trivia matchup. “I have cancer, by the way. No big deal.”

Portnoy later took to X, formerly Twitter, to clarify he’s now cancer-free.

“I did have cancer. I beat it. It wasn’t the serious kind thank god. I can’t tell if [Rico] Bosco thinks cancer is funny or not,” Portnoy wrote on X with an accompanying video that showed him talking to Bosco and Dan Katz.

Bosco revealed he was unaware that Portnoy had been dealing with the health scare.

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“Because I don’t make a big show of it,” Portnoy said in the video to Bosco, who was wearing a sling.

Earlier in the day, the “BFFs Pod” teased Wednesday’s episode with a clip with what appeared to be showing a cut on the same side of Portnoy’s neck that he later had bandages on during the trivia show.

When host Brianna LaPaglia asked Portnoy what the mark was on his neck he replied that it was cancer.

It’s not clear what treatment Portnoy had undergone.