WGNO anchor, New Orleans sports icon Ed Daniels hospitalized in California

Ed Daniels, the longtime sports director at WGNO-TV and a New Orleans native, suffered a heart attack in Southern California and is hospitalized, sources close to his family told the Times-Picayune.

Daniels, 67, is in the area to cover New Orleans Saints training camp. He has been the sports director at WGNO since 1992 — the longest-running sports director in the city — and is a two-time Louisiana Sportscaster of the Year.

A 1975 graduate of Archbishop Rummel High School and 1979 graduate of Loyola University, Daniels was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Press Club of New Orleans in 2014.