THE SIDELINES : Isle, Sporting News Editor, Dies

Stan Isle, a senior editor of The Sporting News and a member of the publication’s editorial staff since 1965, died Thursday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.

Isle wrote a weekly notes column from 1979 until he was hospitalized on Nov. 26. He was promoted to senior editor in 1984.

Before joining The Sporting News as an associate editor, Isle was sports editor of the Moberly Monitor Index and the Wisconsin Rapids (Wis.) Daily Tribune.

Isle was executive director of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame from 1980 until his death. He was this year’s selection, and the eighth inductee overall, in the University of Missouri Hall of Fame and was named this year to the Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame.