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Chicago teen dies after basketball game
January 24, 2007CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday for an 18-year-old Chicago high school basketball player who collapsed and died after a game. Chicago Police Capt. Edward Lenti said Darius Gordon "began breathing heavily and went...
Former world champion Mukhina dies at 46
December 26, 2006Moscow (dpa) - Former Soviet Union gymnastics star Elena Mukhina, a 1978 world champion and four-time European champion, has died at the age of 46, it was reported in Moscow Tuesday. Mukhina, who was a quadriplegic after an accident in training ahead...
Australian jockey Scobie Breasley dies
December 21, 2006Sydney (dpa) - Australian jockey Arthur "Scobie" Breasley died Thursday at the age of 92, Racing Victoria announced. Breasley won his first race at the age of 12 and went on to ride 1,000 winners in Australia and more than 2,000 in England...