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Gussy Moran dies at 89; tennis player caused Wimbledon uproar with short skirt
Gussy Moran, who gained both international fame and notoriety by wearing a short skirt and lace panties in the 1949 Wimbledon tennis tournament and who lived a life of celebrity for many years, died Wednesday night in her small Los Angeles apartment in...
Tags: Baseball, Spring Training, Spencer Tracy, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Kramer
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Los Angeles City Section Hall of Fame adds 42 members
In the 78-year history of high school sports in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the number of Olympians produced, major league players developed and Hall of Fame members inducted from a variety of sports is staggering. So now you can understand...
Tags: Baseball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Joe Perry, Mike Haynes, Kevin Young
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Amarillo Slim dies at 83; poker's first celebrity
It was 3 a.m. in Las Vegas in May 1972. Thomas Austin Preston Jr., better known as Amarillo Slim, had won the main event at the World Series of Poker less than two hours earlier, and there he was looking for a game — any game. "As long as it's for...
Tags: Baseball, Crimes, The Tonight Show (tv program), Obituaries, Entertainment
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PASSINGS: Pauline Betz Addie, Giorgio Tozzi, Harry Redmond Jr., James Woodress, Mark Dantzler
Pauline Betz Addie
1940s tennis champion in Hall of Fame
Pauline Betz Addie, 91, a champion tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1946 without dropping a set during the entire tournament, died Tuesday at an assisted-living facility in Potomac, Md., the...Tags: Health, Grammy Awards, Entertainment, Casablanca (movie), Samuel Barber
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PASSINGS: Sir Percy Cradock, Sam Match
Sir Percy Cradock British diplomat Sir Percy Cradock, 86, the British diplomat who negotiated the terms for returning Hong Kong to Chinese rule, died Jan. 22 after a brief illness, his family announced in London. Cradock was first posted to Hong Kong...Tags: Politics, London (England), National Collegiate Athletic Association, Tennis, Diplomacy
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Jack Kramer dies at 88; champion ushered in era of pro tennis
Tennis legend Jack Kramer, considered by many the most influential person in the game in the last 60 years, died late Saturday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88.
He had been diagnosed in mid-July with soft tissue sarcoma, a cancer of the...Tags: Obituaries, Bars and Clubs, Family, Madison Square Garden, Jack Kramer
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Ron Silver dies at 62; Tony-winning actor and political activist
Ron Silver, the Tony Award-winning actor who amassed an impressive list of roles based on real-life figures in movies including "Reversal of Fortune" and "Ali," died Sunday. He was 62.
Silver, a longtime liberal political activist who became an outspoken...Tags: Arts and Culture, Henry Kissinger, Demonstration, Marlo Thomas, Republican National Conventions
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Featured players
Times Staff WriterIN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...Tags: Folklore and Mythology, John Wooden, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Super Bowl, Jose Canseco
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Looks aren't everything
Times Staff WriterWe've all got our guilty pleasures. Here at Got Game headquarters, I've found a new one: the lovely lady wrestling game Rumble Roses. Every few months a new version of SmackDown! lands on my desk, and invariably it matches up two steroid-fueled behemoths...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Xbox, PlayStation, Teen-agers, Entertainment
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KTLA-List: Tennis Great Billie Jean King
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Winning 39 grand slams including 20 Wimbledon titles -- there's no arguing the legendary Billie Jean King scores as tennis' most preeminent player. But off the court, the Long Beach native is known as "the" champion for social...Tags: Minority Groups, Wimbledon Championships, Tennis
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New Black Films behind 'Battle of the Sexes': Docu portrays women's fight for equal pay in sports
VarietyBy Steve Clarke LONDON Local shingle New Black Films is producing a theatrical documentary about Billie Jean King and the battle to establish equal pay in women's sports. "The Battle of the Sexes" focuses on the years 1968-73 climaxing with the tennis...Tags: Feminism, ABC (tv network), Documentary (genre), Movies, Entertainment
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Title IX's 40th anniversary sparks memories of Lopez, Lieberman, Evert, Strug
Nancy Lopez was the first, an electric 21-year-old who had commandeered women's golf. So a buddy and I sneaked onto the Pine Ridge course in suburban Baltimore and watched Lopez dust the field for the third victory of her rookie season. It was May 1978,...Tags: College of William and Mary, Kathy Whitworth, Annika Sorenstam, Lindsay Davenport, Lisa Leslie
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