By Associated Press
The following is chronological list of sports figures who died in 2006.
Jan. 1: Paul Lindblad, 64, middle reliever who pitched in the World Series for the New York Yankees and Oakland. Lindblad was 68-63 with 64 saves with a 3.29 ERA for five teams from 1965 to 1978.
Jan. 3: Sheik Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, the emir of Dubai and one of the world’s most prominent owners and breeders of thoroughbred horses. With another brother, Sheik Hamdan, they founded Dubai- and British-based Godolphin Racing Inc., one of the world’s most successful stables, and also created the Dubai World Cup, the world’s richest race that carries a $6 million purse.
Jan. 3: Kasey Davis, 20, TCU freshman kicker was shot to death in Conroe, Texas.
Jan. 5: Ken Mosdell, 83, defensive forward who played 14 of his 16 NHL seasons with the Montreal Canadiens, including the Stanley Cup-winning teams of 1946, 1953 and 1956.
Jan. 5: Rod Dedeaux, 91, coached Southern California to a record 11 NCAA baseball championships. Dedeaux had a 1,332-571-11 record over 45 years with the Trojans before retiring in 1986.
Jan. 6: Allaire C. du Pont, 92, thoroughbred enthusiast and owner of five-time Horse of the Year Kelso.
Jan. 7: Jimmy Harper, 44, former Georgia football player and a starting offensive lineman on the Bulldogs’ 1980 national championship team.
Jan. 8: Raatbek Sanatbayev, 44, former Kyrgyzstan greco-roman wrestler and one of the most successful Kyrgyz athletes.
Jan. 8: Elson Becerra, 27, forward on Colombia’s national soccer team, was shot and killed in a Cartagena discotheque.
Jan. 8: Ron Heller, 68, former Wichita State basketball star who played from 1958 to 1961, scoring 1,022 points.
Jan. 9: Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian motorcyclist was killed in a crash during the ninth stage of the Dakar Rally.
Jan. 9: Jack Snow, 62, star wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams and a longtime team broadcaster. He spent 11 years as a player with the Rams, retiring in 1975.
Jan. 10: Dave Brown, 52, former defensive back who played 16 seasons in the NFL. Brown finished his career with 62 interceptions and won a Super Bowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1976.
Jan. 11: Eric Namesnik, 35, winner of silver medals in swimming for the U.S. at the 1992 and ‘96 Olympics. Namesnik won the medals in the 400-meter individual medley and was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1991 and ‘93.
Jan. 13: Marc Potvin, 38, coach of the Adirondack Frostbite of the United Hockey League. Potvin played in the NHL for nine seasons and was a member of the Los Angeles Kings’ 1993 Stanley Cup runner-up team.
Jan. 13: Ron Jessie, 57, All-American long jumper at Kansas and a former receiver who played 11 seasons in the NFL.
Jan. 13: Lorraine Garbe, 90, known as the “grandmother of speedskating’’ for her decades of involvement at the Pettit National Ice Center at the Wisconsin State Fair Park.
Jan. 19: Tom Nugent, 92, credited with developing the I formation at Virginia Military Institute and later coached at Florida State and Maryland. Nugent also was credited with creating the “typewriter’’ huddle where players stood in two rows rather than a circle while plays were being called.
Jan. 23: Marvin Brookman, 92, rodeo stock contractor and ProRodeo Hall of Famer.
Jan. 25: Luther “Sally’’ Green, 59, starred at Long Island University and played for the New York Nets and the Philadelphia 76ers.
Feb. 1: Jake Wade, 93, pitcher with the Detroit Tigers and five other teams in the 1930s and ‘40s. Nicknamed “Whistling Jack,’’ Wade had a 27-40 career record in eight major league seasons.
Feb. 2: Pat Rupp, 63, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 U.S. Olympic teams who also played for the Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers.
Feb. 3: Dick Bass, 68, running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1960-69. In 1962, the three-time Pro Bowler became the first Rams running back to rush for more than a 1,000 yards in a season.
Feb. 3: John Vaught, 96, led Mississippi to six Southeastern Conference titles and 18 postseason bowl appearances in 25 seasons as football coach. Vaught went 190-61-12 from 1947-1970 at Ole Miss and served as athletic director for four years.
Feb. 4: Jim Carey, 76, former Nevada basketball coach. He had a 65-46 record from 1976-80, leading the Wolf Pack to the second round of the NIT in 1979.
Feb. 13: Ken Fletcher, 65, winner of 10 major doubles titles in the 1960s, including a mixed doubles Grand Slam. Fletcher, along with Margaret Smith Court, won the mixed doubles Grand Slam in 1963.
Feb. 13: Bud McFadin, 77, five-time Pro Bowl lineman and All-American guard in 1950 for Texas. He starred with the Los Angeles Rams for five seasons and played six seasons in the AFL with the Denver Broncos and Houston Oilers.
Feb. 16: Ernie Stautner, 80, Hall of Fame defensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and a longtime Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator from 1973-88. Stautner went to nine Pro Bowls with the Steelers.
Feb. 17: Roy Chapman, 79, owner of Kentucky Derby winner Smarty Jones.
Feb. 17: Bob Lewis, 81, one of thoroughbred racing’s most popular owners who came close to winning Triple Crowns with Silver Charm and Charismatic. Bob Lewis and his wife, Beverly, owned some of racing’s greatest champions, including six Eclipse Award-winning horses.
Feb. 18: Kermit Blosser, 95, former Ohio University football player and wrestler who later coached the Bobcats’ golf team to 18 Mid-American Conference championships.
Jan. 19: Jack Beckley, 87, longtime Indy-car mechanic and former U.S. Auto Club technical chairman.
Feb. 20: Curt Gowdy, 86, broadcaster of 13 World Series, 16 All-Star baseball games, numerous Rose Bowls and the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Gowdy spent 15 years as the Boston Red Sox main play-by-play announcer from 1951-1965. He left the Red Sox for a 10-year stint as the baseball broadcaster on NBC’s “Game of the Week’’ through 1975. Gowdy also was host of the “American Sportsman’’ series on ABC from the early 1960s into the 1980s.
Feb. 21: Scott Breeden, 68, former Cincinnati Reds pitching coach who was with the team when they won back-to-back World Series rings in 1975 and 1976. Breeden was also with the Toronto Blue Jays when they won rings in 1992 and 1993.
Feb. 21: Angelica Rozeanu, 84, world female table tennis champion six times from 1950 to 1955, a feat that has not been equaled in the sport. She won a total of 17 world titles in her career.
Feb. 18: Charles Frederick Leonard Jr., 92, set an Olympic pistol shooting record in the pentathlon in 1936 Games in Berlin that stood for more than four decades. The retired Army Maj. Gen. was one year out of West Point when he won the silver medal with the first perfect score in the modern history of the Olympics.
Feb. 28: James Ronald “Bunkie’’ Blackburn, 69, former NASCAR driver who drove in the Grand National and NASCAR circuits from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
Feb. 28: Jim Izard, 57, former Indiana women’s basketball coach from 1989 to 2000. Izard compiled a 188-159 record.
Feb. 28: Travis Claridge, 27, right guard at the University of Southern California and the Pac-10’s top offensive lineman in 1999.
March 1: Peter Osgood, 59, outstanding Chelsea striker in the 1970s who helped the team win the European Cup Winners’ Cup. Osgood won FA Cups with Chelsea and Southampton.
March 2: Brad Davis, 49, associate commissioner for the Southeastern Conference.
March 5: John Sandusky, 80, NFL player in the 1950s and a former longtime assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles and Miami Dolphins.
March 6: Kirby Puckett, 45, Hall of Fame outfielder. Puckett carried the Twins to World Series titles in 1987 and 1991 before his career was cut short by glaucoma. The six-time Gold Glove center fielder and 10-time All-Star had a career batting average of .318.
March 7: Floyd Gass, 79, played basketball and football at Oklahoma State and later returned as the school’s football coach and athletic director. Gass graduated from then-Oklahoma A&M in 1951 and was the football coach from 1969-71.
March 9: Doug Hamilton, 44, president and general manager of the defending MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy.
March 10: Rick Huckabay, 60, coached Marshall to three NCAA men’s basketball tournament appearances. He had a 129-59 record from 1983-90 and was forced to resign in 1990 as the university investigated allegations of NCAA violations.
March 11: Bernie “Boom Boom’’ Geoffrion, 75, hockey Hall of Famer credited with inventing the slap shot. Geoffrion was a scoring star on Canadiens teams that won a record five straight Stanley Cups from 1956-60. He played 16 seasons in the NHL, including 14 with the Canadiens, finishing his career with 393 goals and 429 assists.
March 11: Jesus Rollan, 37, former water polo champion and considered one of the best goalkeepers in the sport. Rollan won gold with Spain at the 1998 and 2001 world championships, and at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
March 12: Nick Barone, 79, the “Fighting Marine’’ who lost a heavyweight title bout in 1950 to Ezzard Charles. Barone had a 47-11-1 record, mainly as a ranked contender in the light heavyweight division.
March 12: Istvan Gyulai, 62, Hungarian runner who became the secretary general of the IAAF in 2001. Gyulai was Hungarian champion over short distances 23 times and competed in 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.
March 12: Jonatan Johansson, 26, Swedish snowboarder died after falling during a snowboardcross run down Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks of New York.
March 13: Jimmy Johnstone, 61, Scottish soccer star who played for Celtic when in 1967 it became the first British team to win the European Cup.
March 14: Ann Calvello, 76, the original “Roller Derby Queen’’ known for intimidating rivals and even teammates while skating well into her 60s. Calvello was best known as the star skater for the San Francisco Bay Bombers.
March 15: Red Storey, 88, referee of seven straight Stanley Cup finals (1952-58) and a member of hockey’s Hall of Fame. Storey also played on two Grey Cup winners for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
March 16: William C. “Bill’’ Hartman, 91, College Football Hall of Famer who spent much of his life supporting athletics at the University of Georgia.
March 17: Ray Meyer, 92, the grandfatherly basketball coach whose 42-year tenure at DePaul stretched from George Mikan to Mark Aguirre. Meyer twice took the Blue Demons to the NCAA Final Four and coached DePaul to the 1945 NIT title. Meyer’s teams posted 37 winning seasons and had 20-win campaigns 12 times.
March 17: Joseph Serafine, 88, member of the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame. A vice president of the organization, Serafine also was a national judge, referee and ice technician.
March 17: Eric Ottens, 23, Evansville basketball player died in an auto crash 10 miles south of Dubuque, Iowa.
March 19: Kevin Payne, 34, boxer who died one day after winning an eight-round welterweight bout by split decision over Ryan Maraldo in Evansville, Ind.
March 21: Leslie MacMitchell, 85, the first college undergraduate to win the Sullivan Award as the nation’s outstanding amateur athlete. In 1941, he won the mile in all five Madison Square Garden intercollegiate meets.
March 24: Robert Kenneth Campbell, 83, innovative promoter who helped shepherd NASCAR through its infancy and worked with the Harlem Globetrotters.
March 24: Joerg Bastuck, 36, German co-driver who died after being hit by a car during the Rally of Catalunya in northeastern Spain.
March 26: Paul Dana, 30, died when he slammed into a stopped car at close to 200 mph during a warmup session of the Toyota Indy 300 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.
March 26: Ron Schipper, 77, Central College (Iowa) football coach. Schipper coached from 1961-1996 and recorded 36 straight winning seasons for a 287-67-3 record. The Dutch won a record 18 Iowa Conference titles, reached three Division III national title games and won the 1974 national championship.
March 29: Bob Veith, 81, 1956 Indianapolis 500 rookie of the year, who went on to compete 11 times in the race.
March 30: Howard “Red’’ Hickey, 89, NFL coach who invented the shotgun offensive formation with the 49ers. Hickey coached San Francisco from 1959-63 and played on the Cleveland Rams’ 1945 championship team.
April 3: Peter Hadhazy, 62, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns and a longtime NFL official.
April 3: Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the 1934 U.S. World Cup team. Harker was a defender on the 1934 team that defeated Mexico in Rome in a qualification match.
April 3: Marshall Goldberg, 88, All-America running back at the University of Pittsburgh and key contributor to the Chicago Cardinals’ 1947 NFL championship.
April 4: Eckhard Dagge, 58, former WBC junior middleweight champion. Dagge won the WBC title on June 17, 1976, by defeating Elisha Obed of Jamaica on a TKO in Berlin. He defended the title twice.
April 4: Walter Rabb, 91, former North Carolina baseball coach who guided the Tar Heels to four conference titles during a 31-year career. Rabb is the winningest baseball coach in school history with 540 victories.
April 6: Maggie Dixon, 28, Army women’s basketball coach who led the Black Knights to their NCAA tournament debut in 2006.
Apirl 7: Jim Clack, 58, guard who helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowls following the 1974 and 1975 seasons. He played in 146 NFL games between 1971 and 1981.
April 9: Billy Hitchcock, 89, major league infielder during the 1940s and ‘50s who went on to manage three teams, Detroit, Baltimore and Atlanta, in the 1960s.
April 15: Louise Smith, 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1999. Smith, remembered as “the first lady of racing,’’ was on the NASCAR circuit from 1945-56.
April 17: Tom Mickle, 55, former Atlantic Coast Conference associate commissioner who was instrumental in creating what would become the Bowl Championship Series.
April 19: Bob Dove, 85, Hall of Fame end at Notre Dame who played eight seasons in the NFL and was a longtime assistant coach at Youngstown State.
April 19: Oscar Acosta, 49, manager of the Gulf Coast Yankees of the Rookie League was killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic.
April 21: Tele Santana, 74, coached Brazil in the 1982 and 1986 soccer World Cups.
April 22: Bill Kirschner, 87, inventor of the first commercially successful fiberglass ski and founded K2 Corp. K2 became the nation’s largest ski manufacturer, its skis used by champions.
April 23: Jacque T. Pate, 23, Bowie State University basketball player who started in 28 of the Bulldogs’ 30 games this past season, was shot to death.
April 24: Brian Labone, 66, former Everton and England defender. He won two league championships and an FA Cup title.
April 25: Steve Masten, 18, freshman pitcher with Nevada, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
April 26: Russ Swan, 42, left-handed pitcher who spent parts of six seasons with San Francisco, Seattle and Cleveland. His career ended in 1994 with a career 14-22 record.
April 27: Kay Noble-Bell, 65, star woman wrestler during the 1960s and ‘70s. For many years, Noble-Bell, who wrestled as Kay Noble, was one of the best known women in the sport.
April 28: Steve Howe, 48, relief pitcher whose promising career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol abuse. Howe was 47-41 with 91 saves with four teams, but was suspended seven times in his career because of drugs.
April 28: Harvey Ratner, 79, one of the two businessmen who brought the NBA back to Minnesota. Ratner owned the Minnesota Timberwolves with partner Marv Wolfenson until selling the team in 1994.
April 28: Antonio Atkins, 21, Albany State (Ga.) University running back was shot and killed after he broke into a house.
April 30: Harold “Bunny’’ Levitt, 96, former Harlem Globetrotter who was famous for accurate free-throw shooting. Using his underhanded style, Levitt made a record 499 consecutive free throws in 1935.
May 1: James E. Collie Sr., 84, coach of fast-breaking basketball teams that opened the door of Division I athletics at Illinois State. Collie arrived at Illinois State in 1957. His overall record was 329-222, including 209-139 at Illinois State.
May 2: George F. Haines, 82, coach of three U.S. Olympic swim teams who guided such 1960s and ‘70s stars as Mark Spitz, Don Schollander and Donna de Varona.
May 4: Jim Delsing, 80, former St. Louis Browns outfielder, best known for his part in one of baseball’s most unusual stunts. Delsing, who played 10 seasons in the major leagues, was the pinch-runner for a midget named Eddie Gaedel. In 1951, St. Louis owner Bill Veeck had sent in Gaedel to hit, who was walked Gaedel on four pitches by Bob Cain.
May 8: John Kimbrough, 87, fullback for Texas A&M’s 1939 national championship team. Known as the “Haskell Hurricane,’’ Kimbrough rushed for 152 yards and two touchdowns in the Aggies’ 14-13 win over Tulane in the 1940 Sugar Bowl to cap an 11-0 season.
May 8: Patrick “Ace’’ Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African-born midfielder who scored 87 goals in 11 years in the North American Soccer League. The Hall of Famer played for four different teams from 1973 to 1984 and leading the Minnesota Kicks to the NASL Soccer Bowl in 1976, and the Toronto Blizzard to the title game in 1983 and 1984.
May 9: Corey Engen, 90, ski-jumper and cross-country skier who was captain of the U.S. Olympic Nordic team in 1948. He won 22 gold medals in national competitions.
May 9: Harold Robinson, 76, first black scholarship athlete in the Big Seven Conference. He earned first team All-Big Seven honors in 1950 with Kansas State.
May 11: Floyd Patterson, 71, first boxer to regain the heavyweight title. In 1956, the undersized heavyweight became, at age 21, the youngest man to win the title. Three years later, Patterson was knocked down seven times in the third round in losing the title to Ingemar Johansson. Patterson knocked out Johansson in 1960 with a tremendous left hook to retake the title. The 1952 Olympic middleweight champion finished 55-8-1 with 40 knockouts as a professional.
May 13: Ryan Francis, 19, Southern California point guard who was shot and killed while riding in a car in Baton Rouge, La.
May 15: George Blackburn, 93, University of Virginia football coach from 1965-70 and the Atlantic Coast Conference coach of the year in 1968. Blackburn also coached at Miami (Ohio) in 1948 and Cincinnati from 1955-60.
May 15: Hal Belote, 51, harness driver killed in a pileup when his horse stumbled and fell in the opening race at Harrington Raceway in Dover, Del.
May 16: Dan Ross, 49, set the record for most Super Bowl receptions with the Bengals in 1982. Ross made 11 catches for 104 yards and two touchdowns in the Bengals’ 26-21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
May 18: Irving Meretsky, 94, member of the silver medal-winning Canadian Olympic basketball at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
May 20: Annis Stukus, 91, legendary CFL figure best known for helping build CFL franchises in Edmonton and Vancouver. He was also general manager of the World Hockey Association’s Winnipeg Jets, signing Bobby Hull to a then-unheard of $1 million contract.
May 21: Spencer Clark, 19, up-and-coming NASCAR driver and crew member Andrew Phillips, 28, died in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 40 in New Mexico.
May 25: Brad Martin, 30, former BYU football captain who played from 1995-1998.
May 25: Joe Brodsky, 71, running backs coach for the Dallas Cowboys as they won three Super Bowls in the 1990s.
May 26: Ted Schroeder, 84, the 1942 singles and mixed doubles tennis champion at the United States National Championships, the precursor to the U.S. Open. Schroeder also won the 1949 Wimbledon singles title. He won three U.S. men’s doubles championships with Jack Kramer, in 1940-41 and 1947, was ranked in the top 10 in the world from 1946-51: reaching No. 2 from 1946-49: and won four Davis Cup titles.
May 27: Craig “Ironhead’’ Heyward, 39, former NFL fullback. Heyward, the former University of Pittsburgh All-American, spent 11 seasons in the NFL with five teams.
May 28: Tony Sardisco, 73, former Tulane lineman who captained the AFL’s Boston Patriots in the early 1960s.
May 29: Steve Mizerak, 61, winner of multiple pool championships who became one of the game’s more recognizable figures by appearing in training videos, beer commercials and a movie. Known by his nickname “The Miz,’’ Mizerak won four U.S. Open Championships and dozens of other billiards tournaments in his professional career, which began when he was 13.
May 31: Bobby Dykes, 77, boxer in the 1940s and 1950s who fought Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Robinson. Dykes retired after a knockout victory over Gordon Pouliot in 1957. He finished his 11-year career with a record of 115-23-8, with 54 knockouts.
May 31: Ken McIntyre, 63, most valuable player of basketball’s National Invitation Tournament in 1965 for champion St. John’s, the last game for Hall of Fame coach Joe Lapchick. McIntyre scored 1,174 points in his three seasons.
May 31: J. Walter Smith, 86, standout hurdler at the University of Southern California in the 1940s.
May 31: Shelly Thompson, 18, University of Nebraska at Omaha volleyball player who died of injuries after falling from a Ford Explorer.
June 4: Robert Taylor, 68, former New York Giants defensive end who played in the 1963 NFL championship game. Taylor played for the Giants in 1963 and ‘64.
June 5: Eric Gregg, 55, former major league umpire, known for his big personality, extra-wide strike zone and oversized frame. Gregg worked the 1989 World Series, four championship series, two division series and one All-Star game.
June 7: Terrence J. McCann, 72, former University of Iowa wrestler and Olympic gold medalist. He won two NCAA wrestling titles competing for the Hawkeyes between 1954-57 and became the school’s first alum to win an Olympic medal, taking home the gold in the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
June 8: John Tenta, 42, former LSU wrestler known professionally as “Earthquake’’ while competing in the World Wrestling Federation.
June 10: Moe Drabowsky, 70, pitcher who compiled a 88-105 record from 1956-72 for nine teams. Drabowsky was a star for the Baltimore Orioles in the 1966 World Series when set a record for relievers by striking out 11 over 6 2-3 scoreless innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
June 10: Charles Johnson, 96, former Negro League player. Johnson was a pitcher and outfielder for the Chicago American Giants in the 1930s.
June 11: Neroli Fairhall, 61, gold medalist in archery at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the first wheelchair-using athlete to compete at an Olympics. Fairhall finished 35th after she broke ground for disabled competitors at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
June 11: Mike Quarry, 55, the younger brother of hard-punching heavyweight Jerry Quarry. Quarry had professional record of 63-13-6 with 17 knockouts in a career that spanned from 1969 to 1982. He lost a light heavyweight title fight against Bob Foster on June 6, 1972, in Las Vegas.
June 12: Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Pierce College for three decades. His teams at the junior college had a 550-94 record and 23 conference championships over a career that started in 1965.
June 12: Anna Lee Aldred, 85, the first woman in the United States to receive a jockey’s license and a member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She received her professional jockey’s license in 1939, when she was 18, from Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico.
June 21: Theo Bell, 52, former NFL receiver who was with Pittsburgh when the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 1978 and 1979 before finishing his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
June 22: Mary Jennings, 21, Seton Hall soccer player died after a short battle with cancer.
June 25: Ben Garry, 50, Southern Miss’ all-time leading rusher who ran for 3,595 yards during a career spanning 1974-77.
June 26: Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneer of female weightlifters who helped establish the popularity of Muscle Beach and inspired women through columns in a fitness magazine. Stockton organized the first Amateur Athletic Union-sanctioned weightlifting competition for women in 1947 and wrote a column in Strength and Health magazine from 1944 to 1954.
June 29: Bill Gazaway, 76, longtime NASCAR executive during the sport’s modern era. Gazaway joined NASCAR in 1960 as a team owner and moved into NASCAR’s front office three years later.
June 29: Randy Walker, 52, Northwestern University football coach. Walker was the first Northwestern coach to lead the school to three bowl games. He joined the school in 1999 after nine years at Miami of Ohio. Walker’s Wildcats posted 37 wins, going 7-5 last season.
July 1: Fred Trueman, 75, cricket star often called England’s greatest fast bowler. Trueman was the first bowler to take 300 test wickets, finishing with 307 in 1964.
July 3: Dick Dickey, 79, starred on North Carolina State’s Final Four team in 1950 before playing briefly in the NBA. In his four years at N.C. State from 1947-50, the Wolfpack went 107-22.
July 5: Kevin Herlihy, 58, pitched New Zealand to two world softball championships in 1976 and again in 1984 when he threw a perfect game.
July 5: Gert Fredriksson, 86, the most successful male canoeist in Olympic history with six gold medals in four games. Fredriksson earned his first Olympic medals at the 1948 London Games.
July 7: Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State linebacker who died as a result of a drive-by shooting in California.
July 6: Teddy Craft, 22, Georgia Southern wide receiver who died from injuries in a motorcycle accident on July 4.
July 8: Jarrett Foster, 32, assistant track coach at Clemson University.
July 12: Paul F. Finnegan Sr., 78, member of Boston College’s 1949 national championship ice hockey team and the first athletics director at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
July 14: Len Teeuws, 79, offensive and defensive linemen for the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears.
July 15: Andrew Sudduth, 44, rowed on eight national and U.S. Olympic teams in the 1980s and won four metals at the World Rowing Championships.
July 17: Galen Fiss, 75, captain of the Cleveland Browns’ last championship football team. He was a linebacker on the Cleveland team that upset the Baltimore Colts 27-0 to win the 1964 NFL title.
July 17: Keith LeClair, 40, second-winningest baseball coach in East Carolina history. At Western Carolina, LeClair was a first baseman and outfielder, and became coach at his alma mater in 1992, going 229-135-2 in six seasons. He became coach at East Carolina before the 1998 season and went 212-96-1 in five years, leading the Pirates to four consecutive 40-win seasons.
July 17: James Nicholas, 85, founder of the world’s first hospital-based center for the treatment and prevention of sports injuries at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
July 24: Kevin Brophy, 21, University of Georgia basketball player was killed in an auto accident.
July 25: Aldo Notari, 74, president of the International Baseball Federation. Notari, the first European to hold the post, headed the IBAF since 1993.
July 31: Al Balding, 82, the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event. Balding won the Mayfair Open in 1955, and had his best season in 1957 when he finished eighth on the money list.
Aug. 2: Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers. He is perhaps best known for bringing Julius Erving to town in 1976 by paying the basketball star about $6.6 million: only a few months after buying the team for $8 million. Under his ownership, the Sixers got to the NBA finals twice but won no championship. He sold the team in 1980.
Aug. 4: Elden Auker, 95, submarine-style pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth, faced Dizzy Dean and helped the Detroit Tigers win their first World Series in 1935. Auker used his unique delivery to go 130-101 for the Tigers, Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns from 1933-42.
Aug. 5: Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod champion. Butcher dominated the 1,100-mile sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome in the late 1980s. In 1986, she became the second woman to win the grueling race. She added victories in 1987, ‘88 and ‘90.
Aug. 6: Jim Pomeroy, 53, first U.S. motorcycle racer to win a World Championship Motocross event. Pomeroy was 20 when he became the first rider to win his debut world championship motocross, the Spanish Grand Prix in 1973. He was also the first U.S. racer to win a world Grand Prix event.
Aug. 7: Bob Miller, 76, defensive tackle on the Detroit Lions’ powerhouse teams that won three NFL titles in the 1950s. He played seven seasons in Detroit and was on NFL championship teams in 1952, ‘53 and ‘57. He got involved in thoroughbred racing in 1980, obtaining a trainer’s license. He and his wife, Delphine, formed the DelRob Stables that produced 870 winners out of 4,790 starts, including 59 stakes winners.
Aug. 8: Vince Bernardo, 17, freshman football player at Shippensburg University who died after becoming ill while running sprints during practice.
Aug. 10: Steve King, 33, the NCRA 360 Division Sprint Car Champion in 2002 and 2003, died in a race at the Knoxville (Tenn.) Nationals.
Aug. 11: Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver from the Hoosier Outlaw Sprint Series, died after crashing into a turn on the Mansfield (Ohio) Motorsports Speedway.
Aug. 13: Payao Poontarat, 49, boxer who earned Thailand’s first Olympic medal. Poontarat was 19 when he captured a bronze medal at the Montreal Games in 1976. He later held the WBC super flyweight crown.
Aug. 13: Al Hostak, 90, won the middleweight title in 1938 in a bout refereed by Jack Dempsey. On July 28, 1938, Hostak knocked out Freddie Steele in 1 minute, 43 seconds for the title. Hostak was 63-9-12 with 42 knockouts in the ring.
Aug. 17: Grady Wallace, 72, South Carolina basketball star who was the nation’s leading scorer in 1957 with a 31.2 points per game average.
Aug. 18: Dick Hickox, 68, led the University of Miami basketball team to its highest national ranking. Hickox, Miami’s first basketball All-American, scored 1,529 points during three seasons at Miami, and averaged 19.4 points. During the 1959-60 season he led the Hurricanes to a 23-3 record and a No. 8 national ranking.
Aug. 21: Majure Blanks “Bill’’ Stribling Sr., 78, six-year NFL veteran in the 1950s who caught the only touchdown pass Tom Landry threw as a professional football player.
Aug. 23: Wasim Raja, 54, described as the “most gifted cricketer’’ of the 1970s. Raja played 57 tests and 54 one-day internationals for Pakistan.
Aug. 24: Gene “Junior’’ Thompson, 89, pitched in the major leagues for six years and was a member of the Cincinnati Reds’ 1940 championship team.
Aug. 24: Norman Hitchcock, 77, former national billiards champion who once described himself as a “pool hustler.’’ In 1973, Hitchcock won the national championship for nine ball.
Aug. 27: David Nicholson, 67, two-time champion trainer after a successful career as a jockey. As a rider, Nicholson rode more than 600 winners in a 20-year career starting in 1951. He was champion trainer in 1993-94 and again the following year.
Aug. 31: “Broadway’’ Charlie Wagner, 70, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox who worked for the organization 70 years.
Sept. 1: Tommy Chesbro, 66, wrestled for Oklahoma State before leading his alma mater to an NCAA championship as a coach. Chesbro was a member of NCAA title teams in 1959 and 1961 and guided the Cowboys to their 27th national title and was named the national coach of the year in 1971.
Sept. 2: Bob Mathias, 75, two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon and former U.S. congressman. Mathias became the youngest Olympic gold medalist in a track and field event in 1948 in London, when he won the decathlon at 17. Mathias also won the 1948 Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athlete. At the 1952 Games in Helsinki, Finland, he became the first athlete to repeat as Olympic champion in the decathlon.
Sept. 3: Lance Preston, 23, former Florida International football player (2002-05).
Sept. 4: Giacinto Facchetti, 64, former Italian soccer captain who led his country to the 1970 World Cup final.
Sept. 4: Mark Graham, 33, former University of Nebraska track star who died in Afghanistan while serving with the Canadian military.
Sept. 8: Peter Brock, 61, one of Australia’s most successful and well-known race car drivers, who died in an accident during a rally in Western Australia state.
Sept. 8: Erk Russell, 80, leader of Georgia’s “Junkyard Dawg’’ defense under Vince Dooley. Russell went on to build a small-college powerhouse of his own at Georgia Southern winning Division I-AA championships in 1985, ‘86 and ‘89.
Sept. 9: Emilie Mondor, 25, 5,000-meter runner for Canada at the Athens Olympics who was killed in a car accident.
Sept. 10: Patty Berg, 88, a golf pioneer who won an LPGA Tour-record 15 major titles and was one of the 13 founding members of the tour in 1950. She was the LPGA Tour’s first president from 1950-52 and the tour’s money leader in 1954, ‘55 and ‘57. She ended her career with 60 victories and was a member of the LPGA Tour and World Golf halls of fame. Berg was The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 1938, ‘43 and ‘55.
Sept. 10: Ernestine Bayer, 97, known as the mother of U.S. women’s rowing for the generations of athletes she trained. The wife of Olympic rowing medalist Ernest Bayer, was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club in 1938, the first competitive women’s rowing club in the United States.
Sept. 11: Peter Clentzos, 97, pole vaulter who competed for Greece in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. Clentzos was a pole vaulter at the University of Southern California in the early 1930s. His dual citizenship allowed him to try out for both the U.S. and Greek Olympic teams.
Sept. 14: Mickey Hargitay, 80, world champion bodybuilder. Hargity was named Mr. Universe, Mr. America and Mr. Olympia in 1955.
Sept. 16: Bart Bradley, 76, longtime Boston Bruins scout who spent 30 years with the NHL team from 1968-98.
Sept. 16: Floyd Curry, 81, former Montreal Canadiens player. The four-time Stanley Cup champion spent 11 seasons with the Canadiens and scored 105 goals and 204 points.
Sept. 17: Jack Banta, 81, played on the Brooklyn Dodgers with Jackie Robinson and made three relief appearances in the 1949 World Series.
Sept. 18: Syd Thrift, 77, former general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates who spent nearly a half century in baseball.
Sept. 20: Frank “Muddy’’ Waters, 83, College Football Hall of Fame coach who had a successful run at Hillsdale College (1954-1973) and finished his long career at Michigan State (1980-82).
Sept. 21: Vic Sears, 88, a member of the Philadelphia Eagles championship teams of 1948-49. A tackle out of Oregon State, Sears played 13 seasons and 131 games with the Eagles.
Sept. 25: Dale Lloyd, 19, Rice University freshman football player who died a day after collapsing during a light workout.
Sept. 26: Byron Nelson, 94, Hall of Fame golfer who had the greatest year in the history of professional golf when he won 18 tournaments in 1945, including a record 11 in a row. Known as Lord Byron for his elegant swing and gentle manner, Nelson won 31 of 54 tournaments in 1944-45. Nelson retired at age 34 with 52 PGA Tour victories: a mark tied by Tiger Woods this year: fifth on the career list behind Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Hogan and Arnold Palmer.
Sept. 27: Craig Kusick, 57, former Minnesota Twins first baseman who played from 1973-79.
Sept. 30: Alfred Cary Cox Sr., 83, captain of state rivals Clemson and South Carolina football teams in the 1940s. Cox was the only football captain for both teams. He was South Carolina’s captain in 1943. He then served in World War II and enrolled at Clemson after the war and became captain of the Tigers, graduating in 1948.
Oct. 3: Peter Norman, 64, Australian sprinter who shared the medals podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos while they gave their black power salutes at the 1968 Olympics. Norman won the silver medal in the 200 meters at the Mexico City Games.
Oct. 4: Vic Heyliger, 87, former hockey coach at Illinois, Michigan, Air Force and of the 1966 U.S. National Team. Heylinger led the Wolverines to the first NCAA Division I ice hockey championship in 1948. They also won titles in 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1956.
Oct. 5: George King, 78, former NBA player who coached West Virginia and Purdue and had a long run as the Boilermakers’ athletic director. King played six seasons with the NBA’s Syracuse Nationals and Cincinnati Royals in the 1950s.
Oct. 5: Dick Wagner, 78, former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros who later became a top executive in the commissioner’s office.
Oct. 6: Buck O’Neil, 94, goodwill ambassador for the Negro Leagues who fell one vote shy of the Hall of Fame. O’Neal starred in the Negro Leagues and later became the first black coach in the majors with the 1962 Chicago Cubs.
Oct. 6: Tom Riach, 77, captain of the 1951 Southern California basketball team. Riach averaged 8.3 points per game in the 1950-51 season and led the Trojans to the Pacific Coast Conference Southern Division championship.
Oct. 9: Glenn Myernick, 51, assistant coach for the U.S. soccer team and a former head coach of Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids from 1997-2001.
Oct. 9: Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker star and three-time winner of the Wembley Masters tournament who died of cancer.
Oct. 9: Haris Charalambous, 21, Toledo basketball center died after collapsing during conditioning practice.
Oct. 11: Cory Lidle, 37, New York Yankees pitcher died when his single-engine plane slammed into a 40-story apartment building in Manhattan.
Oct. 11: Eddie Pellagrini, 88, major-league infielder for eight years who also coached baseball at Boston College for more than 30 seasons.
Oct. 12: Johnny Callison, 67, the rocket-armed right fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies who hit a bottom-of-the-ninth home run that won the 1964 All-Star game. Callison hit .264 with 226 homers for his career and made the NL All-Star team three times.
Oct. 14: Marja Bakker, 59, organizer of the Boston Marathon and the only female president of the Boston Athletic Association Running Club.
Oct. 16: Ondina Valla, 90, 80-meter hurdles champion at the 1936 Summer Games and the first Italian woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Oct. 16: Ernie Steele, 88, played in two NFL championship games for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1947 and ‘48. He scored 19 touchdowns, rushed for 1,337 yards, and caught 31 passes. On defense, he intercepted 24 passes and recovered 12 fumbles.
Oct. 18: Marc Hodler, 87, International Olympic Committee member since 1963 and president of the international ski federation from 1951-98. Hodler blew the whistle on vote-buying in Salt Lake City’s winning campaign for the 2002 Winter Games and other Olympic bids.
Oct. 20: Maxi Baier, 86, Germany’s youngest Winter Olympics champion. Baier at age 15 won the 1936 Olympic pairs figure skating title with her future husband, Ernst Baier. After the Olympics, they won the European and world championships three years in a row before turning professional in 1941.
Oct. 21: Bob Mann, 82, one of the Detroit Lions’ first black players and a star receiver during the 1940s and ‘50s. In 1948, Mann and halfback Mel Groomes became the Lions’ first black players. In 1949, he set a team record for receptions (66) and became the club’s first 1,000-yard receiver, leading the league that year in yards receiving (1,014).
Oct. 25: Edward F. Kenney Sr., 85, Boston Red Sox executive who ran the farm system when the team developed Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, Dwight Evans, Carlton Fisk and Jim Rice.
Oct. 26: Charlie Leigh, 60, kick returner for the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins (1972 and 1973).
Oct. 27: Marlin McKeever, 66, two-time All-American at Southern California who played 13 years in the NFL.
Oct. 27: Joe Niekro, 61, former major league pitcher and Houston’s career victory leader. The two-time 20-game winner finished 221-204 with a 3.59 ERA, including a franchise-best 144 games in 11 seasons with the Astros from 1975 to 1985.
Oct. 27: Trevor Berbick, 52, former heavyweight champion. Berbick lost his heavyweight title to Mike Tyson and was the last boxer to fight Muhammad Ali. After beating Ali in 1981, Berbick went on to win the WBC heavyweight title four years later in a decision over Pinklon Thomas. Berbick’s reign was short, however, as a 20-year-old Tyson knocked Berbick out in the second round on Nov. 22, 1986, to become the youngest heavyweight champion.
Oct. 28: Red Auerbach, 89, Hall of Fame coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships in the 1950s and 1960s. Auerbach won 938 games with the Celtics and was the winningest coach in NBA history until Lenny Wilkens overtook him in the 1994-95 season. As general manager, the straight-talking Auerbach, who celebrated victories with a postgame cigar, was also the architect of Celtics teams that won seven more titles in the 1970s and 1980s.
Oct. 28: Silas Simmons, 111, pitcher-outfielder in the Negro leagues who was said to be the oldest living professional baseball player. Simmons played for several teams from 1912-29.
Nov. 2: Adam Matthews, 25, former star running back at Northern Colorado and the son of ex-NFL running back Bo Matthews. Matthews, the No. 2 rusher in school history, held the record for most yards rushing in a season (1,653 in 2003). He tied an NCAA record in 2003 with 11 straight 100-yard rushing games.
Nov. 2: Matthew Fillip “Fil’’ Leanderson, 75, rowed on the 1952 Olympic bronze medal-winning team. He was forward stroke on the Washington team that won the bronze medal for four-oared shells with coxswain at the Olympic Games in Helsinki.
Nov. 3: Alberto Spencer, 67, Ecuadorean soccer great who led Penarol to eight national titles and three South American championships during its golden era in the 1960s.
Nov. 5: Chuck DeShane, 87, two-way player for the Detroit Lions during the 1940s.
Nov. 5: Hamilton F. “Ham’’ Richardson, 73, former U.S. Davis Cup player and Tulane tennis star. After winning the National Boys Championship at age 15, Richardson captured a pair of NCAA singles titles and four Southeastern Conference singles and doubles titles from 1952 through 1955.
Nov. 7: Bryan Pata, 22, University of Miami defensive lineman was shot and killed at his apartment complex.
Nov. 7: Johnny Sain, 89, three-time All-Star who teamed with Warren Spahn to make up one of baseball’s most fabled pitching tandems. Sain was 139-116 with a 3.49 ERA in 11 seasons in the 1940s and 1950s, mostly with the Braves and New York Yankees. He won three straight World Series titles with the Yankees from 1951-53.
Nov. 7: Buddy Kerr, 84, All-Star shortstop who in the 1940s played 68 consecutive games without an error. Kerr played from 1943-51 for the New York Giants and Boston Braves.
Nov. 8: Annette Kelly, 93, two-time Olympic gold medal winner. Kelly won gold medals in the 400-meter relay at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, and the 1936 games in Berlin.
Nov. 10: Don Veller, 94, Florida State’s first full-time paid football coach. Veller recorded a 31-12-1 record from 1948-1952, including the school’s first unbeaten season in 1950 when the Seminoles went 8-0 and outscored their opponents 219-54.
Nov. 10: Gabriel Donoso, 46, one of Chile’s best polo players ever. Donoso led the Chilean polo team that beat Britain in the Coronation Cup in July 2004. He was chosen the tournament’s best player.
Nov. 14: Leo Anthony Nobile, 84, former Pittsburgh Steelers player who almost drowned in a mud puddle during a game in the 1940s.
Nov. 16: Jack Hinkle, 89, former running back and defensive back with the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1940s.
Nov. 17: Ferenc Puskas, 79, captained the Hungarian national soccer teams of the 1950s and won three European Cup titles with Real Madrid. The “Galloping Major’’ scored 84 goals in 85 matches for Hungary between 1945 and 1956.
Nov. 17: Marcus Cassel, 23, former UCLA cornerback and a member of the Carolina Panthers, died in an auto accident.
Nov. 17: Bo Schembechler, 77, seven-time Big Ten football coach of the year who compiled a 194-48-5 record at Michigan from 1969-89. Schembechler’s record in 26 years of coaching was 234-65-8.
Nov. 20: Andre Waters, 44, former defensive back who spent most of his 12 seasons in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Nov. 20: Brandon Spincer, 24, played linebacker and safety as a four-year starter for Tulane.
Nov. 22: Pat Dobson, 64, one of four pitchers to win 20 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1971. Dobson went 20-8 with a 2.90 ERA for the AL champion Orioles in 1971, rounding out a famous rotation that also included Hall of Famer Jim Palmer (20-9), Dave McNally (21-5) and Mike Cuellar (20-9). Dobson was 122-129 with a 3.54 ERA in 11 major league seasons and won a World Series ring with the 1968 Detroit Tigers.
Nov. 22: Jose Martin, 63, trainer of three champion racehorses and a member of one of New York’s most prominent racing families. Martin’s champions were Lakeville Miss (2-year-old Filly, 1977), Wayward Lass (3-year-old Filly, 1981) and Groovy (Sprinter, 1987).
Nov. 23: Chris Sandy, 27, former Fresno State and Harlem Globetrotters player.
Nov. 23: Willie Pep, 84, Hall of Fame boxer and one of the best fighters of the 20th century. The 5-foot, 6-inch Pep was 229-11 during a career that spanned 26 years. Pep won 53 consecutive fights before trumping Chalky Wright in 1942 for the world featherweight title. With the 15-round decision, Pep was the youngest boxer to earn the title in four decades. The following year brought 63 undefeated bouts for Pep before he lost a non-title fight to Sammy Angott. Undeterred, Pep went on to win another 73 straight.
Nov. 23: Jack Ferrante, 90, wide receiver on two Philadelphia Eagles championship teams in the 1940s. Nicknamed “Blackjack,’’ Ferrante had 169 receptions for 2,884 yards and 31 touchdowns in a nine-year career with the Eagles.
Nov. 25: Isaac Galvez, 31, world track cycling champion from Spain who died after crashing during a six-day track race in Ghent, Belgium.
Nov. 28: Ralph Borgess, 85, reserve guard on the Columbia team that beat Army 21-20 on Oct. 25, 1947. Columbia, down 20-14 at the half, rallied to end Army’s 32-game unbeaten streak.
Dec. 4: Len Sutton, 81, raced in the Indianapolis 500 seven times. Sutton had 43 career top-10 finishes. Sutton first raced in the Indianapolis 500 field in 1958 and his best finish was second to teammate Roger Ward in 1962.
Dec. 6: Andra Franklin, 47, former fullback with the Miami Dolphins. Franklin played at the University of Nebraska from 1977 to 1980, rushing for 1,738 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Dec. 7: Kevin Berry, 61, winner of a gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly for Australia at the 1964 Olympics. Berry set 10 swimming world records during his career.
Dec. 7: Marty Moates, 49, winner of the 1980 U.S. Grand Prix of Motocross at Carlsbad Raceway. Until his win, no American had ever beaten the more experienced European riders in the U.S. rounds of the event.
Dec. 8: Jose Uribe, 47, former San Francisco Giants shortstop. Uribe played 10 seasons in the major leagues from 1984 to 1993, mostly with the Giants.
Dec. 10: Bob Bronzan, 87, former San Jose State football coach. He coached Bill Walsh and Dick Vermeil in the 1950s before becoming the school’s athletic director from 1960-71.
Dec. 11: Sarah Steele, 28, volleyball coach at Tri-State. The Thunder were 20-36 in her two seasons as coach.
Dec. 12: Paul Arizin, 78, an early pioneer of the jump shot who led the Philadelphia Warriors to the 1956 NBA championship. He averaged 22.8 points in his 10-year career.
Dec. 13: Lamar Hunt, 74, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs who came up with the term “Super Bowl.’’ Hunt was a founder of the American Football League and one of the driving forces behind the AFL-NFL merger. In 1972, Hunt became the first AFL figure to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and each year the Lamar Hunt Trophy goes to the AFC winner. In 1967, Hunt was one of 10 original founding partners in the Chicago Bulls basketball franchise. He was the last remaining original owner. Also in 1967, Hunt started the first organized effort at a pro tennis tour with World Championship Tennis, and in 1968 he helped bring pro soccer to the United States with his Dallas Tornado of the old North American Soccer League.
Dec. 14: Flint “Scotty’’ Schulhofer, 80, Hall of Fame trainer who saddled two Belmont Stakes winners during a 40-year career. Schulhofer won the 1993 Belmont with Colonial Affair. Six years later, he sent out Lemon Drop Kid to win the ‘99 Belmont: the race in which Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Charismatic finished third. He retired in 2001 with 1,119 victories from 7,157 starters, and his horses earned purses totaling more than $52 million.
Dec. 16: Al Beye, 24, first-team all-Big Sky selection last season as a senior at Montana State. Beye, a 6-foot-11 center, averaged 11.8 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game last season.
Dec. 17: Larry Sherry, 71, MVP of the 1959 World Series as a reliever for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sherry had a 53-44 lifetime record with a 3.67 ERA with four teams.
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that's about as likely to happen as you offing yourself.Toddowen wrote:Dec.25: The Philadelphia Eagles 2006 playoff hopes. Re-enforcing their role as a team one can count on to fail when the going gets tough, the Eagles somehow emerged to still have chance to get into the post season in week 16, only to faulter against the team of their hated nemisis, Terell Owens. The excuses and accusations continued well into 2007.
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Toddowen wrote:Dec.25: The Philadelphia Eagles 2006 playoff hopes. Re-enforcing their role as a team one can count on to fail when the going gets tough, the Eagles somehow emerged to still have chance to get into the post season in week 16, only to faulter against the team of their hated nemisis, Terell Owens. The excuses and accusations continued well into 2007.
The Eagles can still make the playoffs if they lose the game against the Cowgirls, tard.
jiminphilly wrote:Toddowen wrote:Dec.25: The Philadelphia Eagles 2006 playoff hopes. Re-enforcing their role as a team one can count on to fail when the going gets tough, the Eagles somehow emerged to still have chance to get into the post season in week 16, only to faulter against the team of their hated nemisis, Terell Owens. The excuses and accusations continued well into 2007.
The Eagles can still make the playoffs if they lose the game against the Cowgirls, tard.
RACK the Eagles...and another nice drop by TOh
