(CNN Business) Edward Aschoff, a college football reporter for ESPN, died Tuesday on his 34th birthday, according to ESPN.

"We are very sorry to have to share the devastating news of the tragic passing of friend and ESPN colleague Edward Aschoff," ESPN said in a statement. "Our thoughts are with his loved ones, including his fiancée Katy."

ESPN said Aschoff died after a brief illness, without providing specifics. Earlier this month, Aschoff tweeted that he had pneumonia, even though he was young and had "a very good immune system."

"Anyone ever had multifocal (bilateral) pneumonia in their early 30s as some who never gets sick and has a very good immune system? Asking for two friends ... my lungs," he tweeted on December 5.

Other tweets said he had a virus for weeks and it "morphed into this monster." He wrote that he went to the emergency room on December 1 after a flight and started on antibiotics the next day

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