Former Florida Swimming Coach Dies at 83
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William H. Harlan, the retired University of Florida swimming coach who led the Gators to eight conference titles, died Tuesday, school officials said. He was 83.
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John "Buck" O'Neil, a key figure in Negro Leagues baseball and a ground-breaking coach in the major leagues, has died at the age of 94.
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Billy Reay, who played on two Stanley Cup champions with Montreal and became the winningest coach in Chicago Blackhawks&#39; history, died at 86.
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Bob Mathias, the first Olympian to win back-to-back decathalon titles and a former U.S. congressman, dies Saturday at the age of 75.
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Australia's greatest ever swimmer Ian Thorpe announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 24 on Tuesday.
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Billy Reay, the winningest coach in Blackhawks history and a two-time Stanley Cup champion as a player, died Thursday at age 86. Reay, who had suffered from cancer
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The grandson and former son-in-law of Florida State coach Bobby Bowden were killed late Sunday when their car was hit by a utility truck traveling from Texas to Florida to help restore power outages caused by Hurricane Frances.
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Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Mark Osowski has died after he was stricken with pancreatitis. He was 41. He died Sunday while hospitalized at the Cleveland Clinic, the NBA team said Monday.
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MONTREAL (CP) - The embattled main organizer of Montreal's failed effort to host the 2005 world aquatic championships was found dead Wednesday, a spokesman for the organizing committee said after several media reported his suicide.
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Three days after his teamâs playoff loss concluded a season marked by the slaying of safety Sean Taylor, the 67-year-old coach stepped down as coach and team president of the Washington Redskins.
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It was one of those days, Terry Francona said, he'd find himself enjoying the game, then his thoughts would drift to a man known universally to the baseball world as "Vuk": John Vukovich , the Phillies coach who died yesterday at age 59 of complications connected to an inoperable brain tumor.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State athletic director David Hart Jr. is leaving the school after a dozen years.
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Former priest James Porter, whose widespread molestation of dozens of children foreshadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the Roman Catholic church, died Friday.
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Butch van Breda Kolff, who died Wednesday at 84, was the best college basketball coach I ever saw.
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By Jose Borjon, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  May 31--A 27-year-old man drowned Tuesday afternoon while swimming on a South Padre Island beach.
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Two-time Olympic decathlon gold   medalist Bob Mathias has passed away at the age of 75, the U.S.   Olympic Committee (USOC) said in a statement.
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Somehow, it all seemed pre ordained. The Weston boys' swimming team would walk away with another state title and their beloved coach Pete Foley would walk into retirement as a champion. That was just the way the story would end.