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By David Mullen As is the tradition of this column at the beginning of a new year, we look back at the personalities who passed away in the previous year but had a profound impact on the sports that they served. Many were pinnacles of their game, including seven baseball Hall of Famers and one who deserves enshrinement. Members of Cooperstown who passed were Al Kaline, 85, the classy right-handed hitter called “Mr. Tiger,” Tom Seaver, 75, the most visible player on the “Amazing Mets” 19...

Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP Facebook Share By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press In a year defined by...

Gallery: Recalling lives lost in 2020 Bernard McGhee Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 1of24 English actress Honor Blackman poses for photographers during a break from the filming in London. Blackman, 94, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” died April 5. (AP Photo/Leonard Brown, File) Show MoreShow Less 2of24 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak de...

>>William McDonald, The New York Times Published: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Updated: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Chadwick Boseman in Beverly Hills, Calif, Jan 30, 2018. Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. Boseman died on Aug. 28, 2020. (Brinson+Banks/The New York Times Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. It swept the world riding the back of the coronavirus. It galvanised a Black Lives Matter movement across the United States and abroad, sending people of all c...

Kobe Bryant and Diego Maradona among sports world’s big losses in 2020 Published: Dec. 31, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. ET By Legendary sporting names Jack Charlton, Gale Sayers, Don Shula, Rafer Johnson, Don Larsen, Joe Morgan, Tom Seaver, John Thompson and Curly Neal also among those who left us during this extraordinary year Miami and Milwaukee players take a knee during the national anthem on Aug. 31 in the NBA playoff bubble in central Florida as a video screen pays tribute to the la...

Final goodbyes: Notable people the world lost in 2020 By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press From left, Ruth Bader Ginsburg served 27 years on the U.S. Supreme Court; John Lewis was an icon of the civil rights movement. AP (AP) — In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van...

From Kobe Bryant to Diego Maradona, a year of staggering losses in sports 29 Dec, 2020 07:15 PM 9 minutes to read There were so many this year. Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. It was as if every week, sometimes days, another luminary fell, bringing a cascade of condolence and remembrance. It began New Years Day, a harbinger of what the year held, with the deaths of David Stern and Don Larsen. Not long after came a seismic jolt, the helicopter crash of Kobe Bryant in the fog-sh...

From Kobe to Maradona, a year of staggering losses in sports By FRED LIEFDecember 29, 2020 GMT There were so many this year. Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. It was as if every week, sometimes days, another luminary fell, bringing a cascade of condolence and remembrance. It began New Year’s Day, a harbinger of what the year held, with the deaths of David Stern and Don Larsen. Not long after came a seismic jolt, the helicopter crash of Kobe Bryant in the fog-shrouded Califo...

Column: On its own for 70 years, LPGA gets through big year By DOUG FERGUSONDecember 22, 2020 GMT Louise Suggs was in the room next door. Suggs, one of 13 women who founded the tour in 1950, was serving a term as LPGA president all while competing. Wright said she would be awakened around midnight by the sound of keys pounding a typewriter. “Louise was writing letters to sponsors trying to get us tournaments,” Wright said. “Each night she worked past midnight and then she’d go out and p...

The Associated Press Michael Reaves / Getty Images Sport / Getty The late Mickey Wright once recalled an LPGA Tour event where she was unable to sleep, all because of her location. Louise Suggs was in the room next door. Suggs, one of 13 women who founded the tour in 1950, was serving a term as LPGA president all while competing. Wright said she would be awakened around midnight by the sound of keys pounding a typewriter. “Louise was writing letters to sponsors trying to get us tournaments,�...