Post Mortem Archive: Athletes
Abe Pollin dies
Abe Pollin, 85, Washington's homegrown sports entreprenur who owned the Wizards and Mystics basketball teams and was chairmen and owners of Washington Sports & Entertainment organization, died today. He had been battling a degenerative brain disease, corticobasal degeneration, for several years. Pollin was among the last of the old-school pro...
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November 24, 2009; 3:54 PM ET |
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Wayman Tisdale
Wayman Tisdale, whose obituary appears Sunday in the Post, was one of the finest college basketball players of all time. He was a three-time all-American at the University of Oklahoma and was named the Big Eight Conference's player of the year three years in a row. He was an unstoppable...
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Matt Schudel
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May 17, 2009; 6:36 AM ET |
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The Brothers DiMaggio
Dom DiMaggio, the younger brother of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, was a very interesting man, and only in part because of his famous brother. He was a fine ballplayer in his own right, and there was a movement in the 1980s and '90s led by his former teammate, Ted Williams,...
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Matt Schudel
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May 9, 2009; 11:35 AM ET |
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