Bill Walsh, former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, died Monday following a battle with leukemia, a source told KCRA 3.
Walsh died at about 11 a.m. at home, officials said.
Walsh was head coach with the 49ers from 1979 to 1988, where he won three Super Bowl championships and perfected the schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during his Hall of Fame career. … Read full obituary
Bill Flemming, one of the original announcers on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports,” who was also known for his Olympics, college football and golf broadcasts, died July 20 in Petoskey, Michigan He was 80.
The cause was prostate cancer, his son, W. Mason Flemming, said.
For over 60 years, Flemming was one of the principal voices in the rise of electronic journalism in sports. He announced 11 Olympics and more than 600 events for “Wide World of Sports,” once shuttling from hurling in Ireland to car racing in Santa Monica, California, to a parachuting contest in Bavaria, all in a single month. …
One of his successes was getting an interview with the reclusive chess champion Bobby Fischer during his 1972 matches with Boris Spassky in Iceland. … Read full obituary
Former NSW player and Test umpire, Tom Brooks OAM, passed away on Monday after a short illness, aged 88, Cricket NSW announced.
A Life Member of the NSW Cricket Association, Brooks made his First-Class debut on New Years Day 1947 and went onto play 16 matches for the state.
He later umpired 23 Test matches, standing in his final game in 1978. … Read full obituary
Australia’s oldest Olympian Eileen Wearne died last week aged 95, the Australian Olympic Committee announced today.
Wearne, who died on Friday, competed in athletics at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
She finished fourth in heat three of the women’s 100m. … Read full obituary
WWE is saddened to learn of the death of WWE Hall of Famer “Sensational” Sherri. She was 49.
She passed away at her mother’s home in Birmingham, Ala. Friday morning, according to her husband of 10 years, Robert Schrull. …
In the early 1980s, Sherri began her career in the AWA. In 1985, she defeated Candi Devine to become the AWA Women’s Champion. Their rivalry lasted more than a year, with the championship trading hands on several occasions. …
On July 24, 1987, “Sensational” Sherri debuted in WWE, pinning her trainer and mentor the Fabulous Moolah to become Women’s Champion. Sherri defended the gold against Debbie Combs, Velvet McIntyre, and Desiree Peterson. … Read full obituary
Former Australian Test all-rounder Ron Archer has died of lung cancer at the age of 73.
Archer was a talented all-round athlete who made his A grade club debut at 15 and played his first Test while still a teenager.
His death comes just two days after his former team-mate and Invincibles fast bowler Bill Johnston died at the age of 85. … Read full obituary
International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn died in a Cape Town hospital on Sunday at the age of 57.
The SAPA news agency said Sonn had developed complications after a colon operation.
Sonn, a major figure in the racial reunification of South African cricket, succeeded Ehsan Mani as head of the world governing body in June 2006. … Read full obituary
The roll call of Don Bradman’s 1948 “Invincibles” cricket team is down to five following the death of Bill Johnston at the age of 85.
Johnston, a left-arm fast-medium bowler from Victoria, died peacefully in a Sydney nursing home overnight. The only survivors of the famous side that toured England undefeated in 1948 are Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, Sam Loxton, Bill Brown and Ron Hamence. …
Johnston played 40 Tests between 1947 and 1955, taking 160 wickets at less than 24 runs apiece. … Read full obituary
Australian golf has lost its godfather after fiery trailblazer Norman Von Nida passed away peacefully aged 93 at his Gold Coast nursing home.
The Von, as he was affectionately known, had been ill for the past two months. …
A charismatic little man, Von Nida was the Don Bradman of golf.
He was known for his quick temper as player but would be more fondly remembered for the kindness he showed any young aspiring golfer who approached him for help or advice. … Read full obituary
A minute’s silence was held this morning at the Le Mans circuit in memory of Australian Jack Findlay, who passed away last night.
Findlay set several world championship landmarks in a distinguished career that spanned 21 years from 1958 to 1978.
He was the first rider to take a premier class victory on a two-stroke machine in the 1971 Ulster GP. And he was the first rider to claim victory on Michelin tyres and he also won Suzuki’s first 500cc race. … Read full obituary
ST. LOUIS — Gino Pariani, who played for the United States on the 1950 team that produced one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history, has died. He was 79. …
Pariani, the son of Italian immigrants, grew up playing soccer in St. Louis’ famed Italian neighborhood, “The Hill” and was part of the mostly amateur team that jolted the soccer world with its 1-0 defeat of powerful England in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
A few days after he married, Pariani boarded a plane for Brazil with his St. Louis teammates. The Americans won on a header by Joe Gaetjens in the 37th minute. …
Pariani, a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, also played on the U.S. Olympic team in 1948. … Read full obituary
Former racing writer and columnist Bill Casey has died in Sydney after a long illness. He was 72. …
Casey worked as a racing journalist on the Melbourne Argus and The Age before moving to Sydney to join the afternoon daily The Sun as racing editor.
He was later appointed sports editor and then assistant editor (news and sport), a position he held until the newspaper closed in 1988.
His non-racing assignments included covering Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1984. … Read full obituary
Josh Hancock, a relief pitcher who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series last season, died early Sunday when his sport utility vehicle slammed into the back of a tow truck.
The Cardinals postponed their home game Sunday night against the Chicago Cubs. It was the second time in less than five years that a St. Louis pitcher died during the season. Darryl Kile was found dead in his hotel room in 2002. …
Police said the 29-year-old Hancock, who was single, was alone in his 2007 Ford Explorer when the SUV struck the rear of a flatbed tow truck at 12:35 a.m. The tow truck was in the left lane with its lights flashing while assisting another car that had crashed, Police Chief Joe Mokwa said.
Hancock died upon impact, Mokwa said. … Read full obituary
Dick Motz, the first bowler to take 100 wickets in test cricket for New Zealand, has died in Christchurch.
Motz, 67, was found dead yesterday by his former New Zealand and Canterbury captain Graham Dowling, The Press reported today. …
“He was a great fast bowler who never knew when to stop,” Dowling said. …
He was New Zealand cricketer of the year in 1961 and one of Wisden’s five cricketers of the year in 1966 after New Zealand’s tour the previous year, when he topped the bowling aggregates and averages.
Motz reached a century of test wickets in 1969, against England at The Oval.
He finished on exactly 100 wickets after finding out that he had been bowling with a displaced vertebra and retired immediately. … Read full obituary
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Johnny Perkins, who caught 163 passes in a seven-year NFL career spent entirely with the New York Giants, died of complications following heart surgery. He was 54. …
A second-round draft pick in 1977, Perkins played in 71 games and had 2,611 yards receiving and 18 touchdowns. Perkins retired after the 1983 season. …
Perkins’ best season was 1981, the year the Giants ended an 18-year postseason drought, when he led the team with career-high totals of 51 catches for 858 yards and six touchdowns. … Read full obituary
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