The Denver Post

Shapiro leaving Mile High Sports Radio

- By Sean Keeler

Goodbye for now? Yep. But Les Shapiro wants to make one thing clear: It’s not goodbye forever.

“I’m not abandoning Denver,” the longtime area broadcaste­r and afternoon drive host on Mile High Sports Radio told The Post on Wednesday after announcing on social media that Friday’s “Goodman & Shapiro Show” will be his last. “We’re going to spend a lot of time going back and forth.”

Shapiro and his wife are relocating to Scottsdale, Ariz., which is where the “back and forth” comes in. And while he’s moving away from a full-time gig in Denver after 36 years in the market, the man’s still got plenty of swords to juggle.

Shapiro’s launching a podcast in April called “Unstoppabl­e,” which he’ll cohost. At least one local team has approached him about providing content, as have some local businesses.

Despite fighting stage 4 cancer in his lungs and neck, Shapiro, 63, cracked “I still feel like I’m 30.”

“My health is great right now,” he saide. “I say ‘Right now,’ because you don’t know what’s around the corner. There’s still some cancer in my lung and my neck area. However, it’s minuscule and (my doctors) are doing a great job of controllin­g it and I’m living a pretty normal life.”

The heartfelt responses posted Wednesday in response to his Arizona move “make me wonder if I’m making the right decision,” Shapiro said with a laugh.

“I never think of myself as ‘that guy.’ … So when I got responses like I’ve gotten on Twitter and on Facebook, it kind of floors me and it humbles me. And a few of them actually made me cry.”

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