Boxing legend Schmeling dies
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German ex-heavyweight champ Max Schmeling dies at the age of 99.
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Arturo Gatti, a two-time world champion, said he was retiring Saturday after being stopped in the seventh round by Alfonso GÃ³mez in a 147-pound bout.A stunned crowd of more than 9,000 in Atlantic City â where Gatti, 35, is almost as revered as the New Jersey icons Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi â looked on as GÃ³mez punished Gatti, his former idol. Gatti, who grew up in Canada and moved to Jersey City in 1991, has a career record of 40-9.
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MANNHEIM, Germany -- Wladimir Klitschko successfully defended his International Boxing Federation heavyweight title last night, dropping Ray Austin with a flurry of left hooks and stopping the American challenger in the second round.
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18.09.04 - Former WBO middleweight champion Felix Sturm maintained his reputation as one of the top-3 fighters in his weightclass with a unanimous decision victory over American Robert Frazier.
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Billionaire industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, whose father was convicted at Nuremburg of using slave labor in Nazi Germany, has died at the age of 79, according to news reports Friday.
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An autopsy confirmed that NHL player Serge Zholtok died from heart failure after playing a game this week in Belarus.
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Former WBC light flyweight champion Choi Yo-sam dies after collapsing during a fight on Christmas Day.
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NEW YORK -- New York boxing officials have suspended former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield following his loss to journeyman Larry Donald on Saturday.
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On his last full day of life, Bo Schembechler sat in the press box at Michigan Stadium, giving his last major interview to HBO Sports for a documentary about the Michigan-Ohio State football rivalry.
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Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, a New Orleans sports commentator who originated the tradition of fans wearing bags on their heads to lament losing teams, has died at the age of 73. Diliberto died of a heart attack Friday at his home in Metairie, said his son, Mike Diliberto.
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Joseph Dorsey Jr., a boxer who won a 1957 legal fight against a Louisiana law that banned interracial bouts, has died at the age of 69.
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Australian cricket legend Keith Miller passed away peacefully today, aged 84, in a nursing home on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne.
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Former Swedish prince Count Lennart Bernadotte has died aged 95 at his home in southern Germany, his family said in a local newspaper.
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Willie Pep, considered pound for pound one of the top boxers to lace on a pair of gloves, died Thursday at West Hill Convalescent Home in Rocky Hill, Conn. The "Will o' the Wisp" was 84.
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Former Dodgers star Clem Labine, whose  relief pitching helped Brooklyn win the 1955 World Series over  crosstown rival Yankees, died Friday at age 80, the National  League club announced from their Vero Beach, Florida, training  camp.
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LENNOX Miller, who won two Olympic 100-metre medals for Jamaica and was the father of top American female sprinter Inger Miller, died on Monday of cancer.
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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.