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April 2 - Lawrence McGrew, 46, a former linebacker who won a Super Bowl with the New York Giants. McGrew spent the bulk of his 11-year NFL career with the New England Patriots. McGrew signed with the Giants during the 1990 season and played mostly as a reserve and on special teams.

April 4 - Alberic Schotte, 84, a Belgian cyclist and two-time winner of the Tour of Flanders. Schotte competed in the Flanders classic for 20 straight years and won the race in 1942 and 1948. Schotte was the world road racing champion in 1948 and 1950.

April 4 - Ron Williams, 59, former NBA guard. Williams, also known as ``Fritz,'' was selected by San Francisco in the 1968 NBA draft. Williams spent his first five seasons with the Warriors, before playing two years with the Milwaukee Bucks and one with the Los Angeles Lakers. He retired after the 1975-76 season with career averages of 9.3 points and 3.5 assists.

April 7 - Robert Sangster, 67, an owner and breeder whose impact on horse racing extended around the world. Sangster's horses won 27 European Classics, include the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe three times. He also owned the 1984 Breeders Cup' Mile winner Royal Heroine and 1980 Melbourne Cup winner Beldale Ball. It was Sangster who helped persuade Steve Cauthen to ride in Britain after the American jockey guided Affirmed to the 1978 Triple Crown.

April 8 - Bruce Edwards, 49, a caddie whose struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease inspired longtime boss Tom Watson at the 2003 U.S. Open. Edwards was present for many of Watson's most memorable triumphs, including a magical opening round at last year's U.S. Open. The 53-year-old Watson shot a 5-under 65, matching his best score ever at the Open.

April 15 - Albie Grant, 60, a star basketball player for Long Island University in the 1960s. Grant played for LIU from 1963-66, leading the Blackbirds to a 52-20 record. He is the only player in the history of the Brooklyn school to average more than 20 points and 10 rebounds for his career.

April 22 - Art Devlin, 81, a former U.S. Olympic ski jumper and sports broadcaster. Devlin qualified for Olympic teams from 1940 to 1960 and competed in two Winter Games. He finished 15th in the 90-meter jump in 1952 in Oslo, Norway, and 21st four years later in Cortina, Italy. In 1960, he became a TV sports commentator for CBS. Two years later, Devlin joined ABC-TV, where he was a commentator for 21 years. He was vice president of the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1980 Winter Games.

April 22 - Pat Tillman, 27, Arizona Cardinal safety who traded in a multimillion-dollar contract to serve as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan. He was killed in action.
April 25 - Sid Watson, 71, led the Bowdoin hockey team to four ECAC Division II titles. From 1969-83, Watson's teams qualified for the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs every year but one and compiled a record of 326-210-11. He was named the Division II college coach of year three times.

April 29 - Robert Timmons, 91, a former basketball coach at the University of Pittsburgh who led the team to four postseason tournaments in 15 seasons. Timmons compiled a 174-189 record from 1953-1968.

April 30 - Joseph Cullman, 92, a former chairman of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Cullman was considered a pioneer of women's tennis, helping start a women's pro tour in 1970. Cullman became president of the Hall of Fame in 1982 and served as chairman from 1985-1988.

May 4 - John Amberg, 75, defensive back for the New York Giants in 1951-52. Amberg had five interceptions before his career was cut short by the Korean War.

May 5 - Richard Jones, 21, Canisius junior forward who collapsed during a workout with some teammates.

May 14 - Torsten Johansson, 84, Swedish tennis star who set a record by shutting out two opponents at Wimbledon in 1946. Johansson played for the Royal Tennis Club in the early 1940s and won more than 100 national titles for the club, a record that still stands.

May 16 - Dan Allen, 48, coached the Holy Cross football team from a wheelchair during the 2003 season. During the 2002 season he took a medical leave but returned to coach the final four games. His career coaching record was 61-97 over 14 years. Allen was a Holy Cross assistant from 1982-89 before becoming head coach at Boston University. He was 35-34 in six years at BU, including an 11-0 season in 1993 that earned him Division I-AA coach of the year honors. Allen returned to Holy Cross for the 1996 season.

May 16 - Jim Colclough, 68, original member of the Boston Patriots and one of the top receivers in franchise history. In his nine seasons in the American Football League, all with the Patriots, Colclough had 283 receptions for 5,001 yards and 39 touchdowns.

May 16 - John Frank Patterson Sr., 83, Hall of Fame harness racing trainer and driver. Patterson trained and raced multiple world-record holder Overtrick, who won the Little Brown Jug - one of the sport's major races - in 1963 in Delaware, Ohio. He also raced Merrie Annabelle, who set four world records and broke a milestone in the sport in 1958 by becoming the first filly to log a 2-minute time on a mile-long course in Lexington, Ky.

May 18 - Edgar ``Special Delivery'' Jones, 84, played for the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s.

May 20 - Gary Ballman, 63, Pro Bowl player for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1960s. Ballman starred at Michigan State before playing halfback and receiver for the Steelers from 1962-1966, making the Pro Bowl the final two seasons.


May 22 - Alexander Jiminez Woodley, 71, track coach who produced champions such as John Carlos, Charles Foster, Ira Davis and Steve Riddick. As head coach of the Philadelphia Pioneer Educational-Athletic Development Club, Woodley won five consecutive USA track and field national championships. More than 50 of his athletes went on to win championships in the NCAA, World and Olympic Games, at least 10 of them setting world records.

May 24 - Carl Allen, 74, bred, trained and raced harness racing champions. Allen raised and raced such world champions as CR Kay Suzie, CR Commando, CR Renegade and Royal Troubador. Allen was one of the oldest drivers still competing, riding 118 races in 2003. He had 649 career wins and $9.8 million in earnings as a driver.

May 27 - Jack Losch, 69, a member of Little League baseball's first championship team who went on to play in the NFL.

May 29 - Magne Havnaa, 40, former world champion boxer. Havnaa won the WBO cruiserweight world championship with a fifth-round knockout against American Richard Pultz on May 17, 1990. Havnaa retired in 1993 with a 19-3 record.

June 8 - Ronalda Pierce, 19, a Florida State basketball player who died from an aneurysm. Pierce just completed her freshman season with the Seminoles, averaging 5.3 points and 3.5 rebounds a game.

June 9 - Ralph Moody, 86, a racing pioneer and Hall of Famer who won 93 races as a car owner on NASCAR's top circuit. Between 1958 and 1972, Moody was a partner with John Holman in the Holman-Moody Racing shop that consistently put drivers in the winner's circle. Moody also won five races as a driver in 1956-57.

June 9 - Roosevelt Brown, 71, a Hall of Fame offensive tackle who starred for the New York Giants in the 1950s and '60s. A 27th-round draft pick out of Morgan State in 1953, Brown was the Giants' starting right tackle for 13 years. Playing at 255 pounds - tiny by today's standards for offensive linemen - he was voted to the All-NFL team for eight consecutive seasons and selected to nine Pro Bowls.

June 10 - Rowland Haddock Jr., 31, died after his dragster swerved and flipped over a guardrail after a NHRA test run at Pecan Park Road track in Jacksonville, Fla.

June 17 - Gerry McNeil, 78, won two Stanley Cups as a goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens. McNeil won his first Cup in the 1952-53 season and was part of the 1956-57 team that won the second of five straight NHL titles.

June 25 - Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, a member of the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame who won the silver medal with her brother in skating pairs in the 1952 Winter Olympics. Known as the ``Kennedy kids,'' they won six national pairs titles and the world pairs championship in 1950, finished sixth in the 1948 Olympics and second four years later.

June 25 - C.J. Hart, 93, helped create the country's first commercial drag strip. Hart and two partners helped to popularize the sport by running the first commercial drag race June 19, 1950, on a runway at the Orange County Airport in southern California.

June 27 - Darrell Russell, 35, died after his car broke up while traveling about 300 mph and burst into flames during a NHRA Top Fuel race at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Ill.