RIP Tom Vint

Tom Vint, retired AP sports writer, dies of COVID-19 at 72

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As much as Tom Vint loved writing about sports, he might have loved playing and coaching sports more.
Vint, who covered the dominant Nebraska football teams of the 1980s and '90s as an Associated Press sports writer, died Wednesday after a monthlong battle with COVID-19, his daughter Mandy Troia said. He was 72.
Vint retired from the AP in 2005 after 25 years working in multiple roles in the Omaha bureau.
Former colleagues remembered Vint for being unflappable under deadline pressure and patient when training new staffers. Family and friends knew Vint for his willingness to help others and his passion for coaching youth sports.
A native of Marshalltown, Iowa, he played baseball for the city’s community college before moving on to Iowa State and graduating in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communications. An Army veteran, he worked for the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette and then landed a job as the outdoors writer for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star.
He joined the AP in 1980 and covered Nebraska teams that annually were ranked among college football's best and broke through with Tom Osborne's first national championship in 1994. Vint found a common bond with Osborne.

 

Terrible news. Thoughts to his family and friends. This disease is real and it is dangerous.

 

Just awful. Read his stuff religiously back in the day. Condolences to his family and friends.