Golf great Byron Nelson dead at 94
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Byron Nelson, golf's courtly "Lord Byron" whose 11 straight tournament victories in 1945 stand as one of sports' most enduring records, died Tuesday. He was 94.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans  saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79  after a long battle with emphysema.
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Jim Furyk has the reputation of being a rock, so it was strange to see his eyes suddenly glass over with tears and his answers become short and direct. All because he was asked about Byron Nelson.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years, died on Sunday at age 79 after a long  battle with emphysema.
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Miller, one of the game&#39;s greatest all-rounders, passed away peacefully today at a nursing home on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne, a family spokesman said.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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DENNIS, Mass. -- Boston Marathon legend, and two-time race champion, Johnny Kelly, has died at the age of 97. The nephew of the former Olympian, Dave DeLong, said Kelly died Wednesday night at a nursing home on Cape Cod.
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Maybe $1 million. Maybe more, given all the time it would take from a prosperous career on the Champions Tour. And Nelson would do it in a second.
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MIAMI, Florida  - LPGA pioneer and record major   winner Patty Berg died on Sunday at the age of 88 after   battling Alzheimer's disease.
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Johnny Carson, legendary host of The Tonight Show, passed away peacefully this morning with his family by his side.  NBC said Carson died of emphysema at his Malibu home.
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Patty Berg, the golf pioneer who won an LPGA Tour-record 15 major titles and was one of the 13 founding members of the tour in 1950, died Sunday. She was 88.
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SAN DIEGO -- Byron Nelson won 11 straight tournaments over five months. Tiger Woods took almost that much time off between PGA Tour victories No. 6 and No. 7 in a winning streak that is increasingly difficult to compare.
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Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world  of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing,  technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, died on Sunday of  kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported. He was  82.
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Two former golf club employees are charged with theft and cruelty to animals in the death of a pet dog the owners say was cooked and eaten. An Oahu grand jury indicted Saturnino Palting, 58, and Nelson Domingo, 43, both of Kalihi.
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The Denver Broncos have confirmed that running back Damien Nash has died after a charity basketball game in St. Louis.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess champion who made a name for himself by beating the Russians then turning his back on America - and the game - has died