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Chuck Hildebrand
By LARRY BARKER
LVN Sports Editor
Chuck Hildebrand, the founder and former owner of nevadaprep.com, has apparently suffered a massive heart attack and is in a coma in a Milwaukee hospital.
Officer Matt Christian of the San Jose, Calif. Police Department telephoned the Lahontan Valley News on Monday afternoon, seeking information on Hildebrand's next of kin. The officer had been contacted by Milwaukee police officer Bill Spankowski, who was calling numbers listed in Hildebrand's cell phone.
Spankowski reportedly said that Hildebrand had been in Milwaukee to watch the San Francisco Giants play the Milwaukee Brewers, and suffered the heart attack on Monday morning. Spankowski reported that Hildebrand wasn't expected to live.
According to Hildebrand's childhood friend, Paul Balbas of San Jose, Hildebrand collapsed on Monday morning and was taken to Columbia-St. Mary's Ozakee hospital in Milwaukee. He was in cardiac arrest but doctors at the hospital used electroshock to re-establish his heart beat.
Balbas reported that as of Tuesday morning, Hildebrand was in intensive care in a hypothermia-induced coma. Doctors plan to raise his body temperature today and see if he regains consciousness.
The Lahontan Valley News contacted the intensive care unit at the hospital, but a man who said he was Hildebrand's nurse refused to comment, citing a hospital policy that permits patient information to be given only to family members.
Hildebrand founded Nevada Prep as a newspaper focusing on high school sports in Northern Nevada in 1998. In 1999 he ceased the printed version and created nevadaprep.com, which he operated until he sold the Web site in 2007.
In the eight years that he ran nevadaprep.com, Hildebrand concentrated his coverage on high school sports in rural Nevada, and often wrote columns criticizing the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association for its alignment policies and other issues.
After selling the Web site, Hildebrand returned to his home town of Campbell, Calif. and focused on his writing career. He's authored three books.
LVN Sports Editor
Chuck Hildebrand, the founder and former owner of nevadaprep.com, has apparently suffered a massive heart attack and is in a coma in a Milwaukee hospital.
Officer Matt Christian of the San Jose, Calif. Police Department telephoned the Lahontan Valley News on Monday afternoon, seeking information on Hildebrand's next of kin. The officer had been contacted by Milwaukee police officer Bill Spankowski, who was calling numbers listed in Hildebrand's cell phone.
Spankowski reportedly said that Hildebrand had been in Milwaukee to watch the San Francisco Giants play the Milwaukee Brewers, and suffered the heart attack on Monday morning. Spankowski reported that Hildebrand wasn't expected to live.
According to Hildebrand's childhood friend, Paul Balbas of San Jose, Hildebrand collapsed on Monday morning and was taken to Columbia-St. Mary's Ozakee hospital in Milwaukee. He was in cardiac arrest but doctors at the hospital used electroshock to re-establish his heart beat.
Balbas reported that as of Tuesday morning, Hildebrand was in intensive care in a hypothermia-induced coma. Doctors plan to raise his body temperature today and see if he regains consciousness.
The Lahontan Valley News contacted the intensive care unit at the hospital, but a man who said he was Hildebrand's nurse refused to comment, citing a hospital policy that permits patient information to be given only to family members.
Hildebrand founded Nevada Prep as a newspaper focusing on high school sports in Northern Nevada in 1998. In 1999 he ceased the printed version and created nevadaprep.com, which he operated until he sold the Web site in 2007.
In the eight years that he ran nevadaprep.com, Hildebrand concentrated his coverage on high school sports in rural Nevada, and often wrote columns criticizing the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association for its alignment policies and other issues.
After selling the Web site, Hildebrand returned to his home town of Campbell, Calif. and focused on his writing career. He's authored three books.
