SYDNEY, Australia — Former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds, who has died after a single-vehicle auto accident, was a big-hitting allrounder who built a credible test career and was an exemplar of Australian sport’s prized larrikin tradition. He was 46. “Australian…
Calgary: Joan Snyder, a driving force behind women’s hockey and the treatment of chronic disease, died at age 90. Snyder died on April 7, the University of Calgary said in a statement on the school’s website. The university’s campus flag was…
BRISBANE, Australia (A.P.) —The Australian-born cricketer Shane Warne, whose artful and record-breaking spin bowling on the cricket field was matched by his impish allure and often controversial career off the pitch. He was remembered by athletes, actors, prime ministers, rock…
NEW YORK (AP) — Emile Francis, (“The Cat”) the diminutive goalie who became a Hall of Fame coach and general manager with the New York Rangers, died. “Emile’s passion and dedication to the Rangers organization and growing the game of…
Pro Football Hall of Famer Claude Humphrey, one of the NFL’s most fearsome pass rushers during the 1970s with the Atlanta Falcons but long-overlooked on mostly losing teams, has died at the age of 77. According to the Hall of…
Sam Huff, the hard-hitting Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the New York Giants reach six NFL title games from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s and later became a popular player and announcer in Washington, died Saturday. He was…
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, born Sadaho Maeda in Fukuoka, Japan, on Jan. 22, 1939, died on Thursday of COVID complications at age 82. His agent and manager confirmed the passing to Variety, also telling Japan’s Oricon News that he passed in the hospital after…
(AP) June Daugherty, the former Washington and Washington State women’s basketball coach who led the Huskies to seven NCAA Tournaments died. She was 64. Washington State said Daugherty died Monday at her Boise, Idaho, home.A basketball fixture in the Northwest…
