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Maurice Richard, who has died aged 78, was a record-setting goal scorer for the Montreal Canadiens' ice-hockey team. He was called "the Rocket" because of his speed, but it was the fire in his eyes, dubbed "the Rocket's red glare", that instilled fear in opposing goaltenders.
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Where will you go, Joe DiMaggio? That is the question that is currently perplexing his fans and family in a bizarre and unseemly row over a memorial for the legendary baseball star and ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe.
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John Williams on David Halberstan's biography of the basketball god and sneaker salesman Michael Jordan, Playing for Keeps
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True to his unpredictable and maverick nature, Bill Bradley yesterday spent what may well have been the last hours of his bid for the Democratic party's presidential nomination talking to a room full of non-voters - 100 Bronx schoolchildren.
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The high point of American football's popularity in this country came when the Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears filled Wembley stadium in August 1985. The star of that team, "Sweetness" Walter Payton, whose drive and durability allowed him to run further than anyone in National Football League history, has died at the age of 45.
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In 1941 the death of baseball star Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse", shocked America. So much so that the disease which struck him down with amazing swiftness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, become known as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
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The election of Pee Wee Reese, who has died of cancer aged 81, to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1984 owed as much to his role in helping Jackie Robinson break baseball's colour barrier as to his play on the field. His defining moment came during a game when, jeered by the opposing players and their fans for playing with a black man, he walked over to Robinson and stood shoulder to shoulder with him until the abuse died down.
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Henry Kimbro, who has died aged 87, played baseball in the shadows. It was his fate to labour unrecognised in the negro leagues, and, in his case, fate was particularly insistent. Most of his career spanned the period when America's major leagues were restricted to white players.
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When the Baltimore Orioles baseball team were last week given official permission to play against a Cuban All Star side in Havana on 28 March, it seemed to be a simple announcement about a sporting fixture.
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