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Hall of Fame Manager Sparky Anderson Dead at 76(1934 – 2010)

November 4, 2010

Just a day after his family announced the sad news that he would be admitted into hospice care because he was suffering from dementia, Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson has died today at the age of 76.(NY Daily News) He managed the National League’s Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with […]

Venezuelan Boxer And Suspected Wife Killer And Abuser Edwin Velero Commits Suicide in Jail

April 19, 2010

Edwin Valero,28, the former World Boxing Council lightweight champion, hanged himself with his own clothes in a jail cell in Caracas on Monday,where he was being detained since Sunday on suspicion of murdering his wife Jennifer, 24, after police found her body in a hotel room in Valencia, Venezuela.(SOURCE) Valero left the hotel room around […]

Civil Rights Hero,Pioneer,And Much-Loved Leader,Dr. Benjamin Hooks,85, Dies

April 15, 2010

Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Hooks has died today in his Nashville,Tennessee home,at the age of 85, after battling a long illness. Dr. Hooks served a 15-year tenure atop the NAACP,which was 1 million dollars in debt and its membership was down to 200,000 – less than half its total from a decade earlier,when he took […]

Suspected Intersex South African Female Sprinter Caster Semenya keeps Gold medal, Sex test results remain a secret

November 19, 2009

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=caster+semenya&iid=6073230″ src=”7/e/5/e/12th_IAAF_World_e3c2.jpg?adImageId=7642596&imageId=6073230″ width=”380″ height=”497″ /] The AP in Johannesburg reports that the South African sports ministry says 800 world champion Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal. Caster Semenya has been under humiliating public scrutiny for several months now, when it was made public that the gold medal winning world champion female runner […]