The larger-than-life sports broadcaster has passed away this morning, aged 75, at a central coast nursing home.

He had been battling both Alzheimers and emphysema since 2010. At that time some said he’d be lucky to see out the year.

In 2016 radioinfo reported he was “still at the crease and batting.”

With a unique booming voice to match his giant frame, Darrell, was a star in both radio and television made famous calling the weightlifting at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and several NRL State of Origin series.

After his wife Julie was forced to move him into a nursing home she told Nine Network’s A Current Affair in 2016.

“It’s been so hard for me to tell him he can’t come home,”

“If he falls I can’t pick him up – and he has fallen so many times.”

In the SMH Mrs Eastlake said it had been hard to watch her husband’s health decline.

“I do a lot of crying when I leave the nursing home,” she said. “I sit here and say to myself, ‘where’s my man gone?'”

Tributes honouring one of the great callers of sport have been pouring in: