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Barbara Nahin- Rubinstein
January 29, 2023 | NYC | Family
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Longtime Los Angeles sportscaster Stu Nahan, also familiar to movie fans for his appearances in the series of "Rocky" films, has died. He was 81.
Daughter Kathy Derington said Nahan died Wednesday at his home in Studio City. He had battled lymphoma since being diagnosed in January 2006.
A former minor league hockey goalie, Nahan had been a sports anchor for three different television stations in Los Angeles. He retired from TV in 1999, and most recently did pre- and post-game radio shows for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Among his other jobs, Nahan at one time worked telecasts of the Los Angeles Kings' NHL games.
Nahan was a goalie at McGill College in Montreal and was signed by the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs in 1946. He played for the minor league Los Angeles Monarchs, but his playing career ended when the Monarchs folded in 1952.
He began his broadcasting career in radio, doing play-by-play for a minor league baseball team in Modesto. He began his first nightly sports reports on a Sacramento television station. Nahan also hosted a children's TV program there, as "Skipper Stu." He later moved to Philadelphia, where he was "Captain Philadelphia" on another children's show, and did play-by-play for the NHL's Flyers and the NFL's Eagles.
He returned to California in 1968 and started his long run as a sportscaster in Los Angeles.
In addition to the Rocky films, Nahan also appeared in the film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and the TV movie "Brian's Song."
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Stu was and will always be a GREAT PERSON
Doug Maxwell
February 03, 2019 | No.Hollywood, CA
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Doug Maxwell
February 03, 2019 | North Hollywood, CA | Friend
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Stu was one of my favorites in his years in Philadelphia. He was Captain Philadelphia and sports director for WKBS TV Channel 48. He also did the Flyers hockey games on WKBS. For several years he was Tom Brookshire's broadcast partner on the Eagles CBS games. I also remember him doing the NHL game of the week on CBS while he was in Philadelphia. When he did the Rocky movies, they uusally were set at the Spectrum in PHiladelphia. While he was in LA for a long time, a part of him will...
Jerry Curtin
June 05, 2018 | Philadelphia, PA
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Thank you for sharing a part of your life with us.
Harry Simpson
December 26, 2014 | Alpharetta, GA
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I felt a need to have my "Stu" time after talking with two former interns of ours from the KTLA-TV and happened to find this wonderful tribute of Stu. He and I became friends when I was a sportscaster for KTLA-TV and he was with KABC-TV In Los Angeles. He was quite the character and one of the best sportscasters to ever appear on television. Stu asked me to move over to KABC-TV with him in early 1975 and we had two terrific years together before he moved over to KNBC-TV. In 1986 I went back...
Ed Arnold
November 25, 2014 | Fountain Valley, CA
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I used to watch Skipper Stu as a kid in Los Angeles area. Also, as a sportscaster on the News. His daughter, Kathy, went to school with me. RIP Mr. Nahan.
Judy Cochran
May 21, 2014 | HOMESTEAD, FL
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It had been a long time since I had met Stu. I was 2 maybe 3 years old at NBC. He always tried to get me to sit on his lap. He told me he was my uncle, but he was really good friends with my dad Tom Hutcheson. Stu was a great guy. May he rest in peace. Watching Rocky made me think to do a search to see if he was still around. Glad to know he lived a long life.
Vanessa Hutcheson
March 17, 2014 | Porterville, CA
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Just became aware of this wonderful tribute today. Stu was my grandfather. We miss him so very much! We love you Papa Stu!
Sarah, Larry, Peter, Phoebe and Aaron Tannas
May 07, 2013 | Orange, CA
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