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Jeff Schmahl, The Man Who Founded HuskerVision, Passes Away From Cancer

The former sports anchor succumbs to cancer.

Today we lost one of the great ones. Now you can rest Jeff. http://t.co/TKV8PMJNYl

— Kelly Mosier (@kmosier42) July 14, 2015

Jeff Schmahl, the man who made HuskerVision into what it is today, passed away from complications of pancreatic and colon cancer. The death was announced by his son on the blog The Last Train, which Schmahl himself founded and contributed to about his journey with cancer.

Schmahl first came to the limelight in Lincoln partnering with Dick Janda at KOLN in Lincoln, doing sports reporting for the CBS based station for 14 years.