Georgia Frontiere, 80, First Female N.F.L. Owner, Is Dead
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Georgia Frontiere, an occasional night-club singer and chorus line performer who hoped to become an opera star, was thrust into the pro football world in April 1979 when her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, drowned near his Florida home.
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Ted Stepien, the former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers whose propensity for trading away draft picks resulted in an NBA rule change, died yesterday at his home in Willoughby Hills. He was 82.
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Rep. Julia Carson, who rose from a childhood of poverty and segregation to become the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday. She was 69.
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John "Red" Cochran, a scout and former NFL player and assistant coach who spent 42 years with the Green Bay Packers, died at 82.
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Tom Fitzgerald, the coach of NCAA soccer champions in Division I and II who also coached the Columbus Crew of MLS, died after a motorcycle accident while on his way to scout players at a tournament. He was 53.
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By Chuck Thompson, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep.
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Mary Rettig Irish, a philanthropist and wife of Hearst Newspapers President George B. Irish, died Sunday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 59.
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Leonard Lindquist, who helped NFL players form their first union and served as the first general counsel of the NFL Players Association, died at 92.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Winning Colors, the 1988 Kentucky Derby winner who was the last filly to win the race, has died, Gainesway thoroughbred farm said Monday. She was 23.
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Lamar Lundy, a member of the Fearsome Foursome defensive line for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s, died Saturday. He was 71. He died after a long illness in his hometown, the Community Family Funeral Home said.
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LOS ANGELES &quot;Azeri&quot; has been retired from racing ending the career of one of the top females in thoroughbred racing history.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Apparel designer Liz Claiborne, who founded a namesake sportswear label for women that grew into a multibillion dollar global empire, has died at age 78, the company said on Wednesday.
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Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel
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Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm,  the first African American woman elected to Congress and a  champion of women's rights, died on Saturday in Florida,  congressional officials said. She was 80.
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America's oldest person, a 114-year-old woman who voted in every election since women earned the right in 1920 and had the thinnest file in her doctor's office, has died.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Former Texas first lady Nellie   Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John   F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the   age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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GASTONIA, N.C. (Sports Network) - Ted Abernathy, who twice  led the National League in saves during the 1960s, has passed  away at the age 71.