Mulhern, who primarily covered the University of Wisconsin football team, previously won the award in 2005 and ’10. Mulhern was 56 when he died Oct. 3 from complications due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease … It was announced last month that the first recipient of the Tom Mulhern Scholarship for Sports Journalism at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be named April 10.
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