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  • Sportscaster Chris Schenkel Dies at 82

    09/11/2005 2:22:47 PM PDT · by John W · 26 replies · 2,244+ views
    AP via MSNBC ^ | September 11, 2005 | Rick Callahan
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Sportscaster Chris Schenkel, whose easygoing baritone won over fans during a more than six-decade broadcasting career in which he covered everything from bowling to the Olympics, died Sunday following a long battle with emphysema. He was 82. Schenkel's wife, Fran, said she and the couple's two sons were at her husband's side when he passed away early Sunday at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he had been hospitalized for two weeks after undergoing surgery for a bleeding ulcer. "He was a very, very sincere, loving man who loved what he did,'' said Fran Schenkel, noting...