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...gentle and beloved legend of boxing; after years battling Alzheimer's and prostate cancer; in New Paltz, N.Y. The undersized high school dropout from Brooklyn, N.Y., won Olympic gold in 1952. Four years later, at age 21, he knocked out Archie Moore to become the world's youngest heavyweight champ--and the most conflicted. The Hall of Famer, who said he had "no self-esteem" as a kid, was so stung by a 1959 loss to Ingemar Johansson that he left the arena in disguise. Yet when he regained the title from Johansson a year later, he was disturbed...
DIED. BERNARD LACOSTE, 74, who presided over the Lacoste apparel company for 40 years and made its crocodile logo a much imitated global brand; in Paris. After taking over the sportswearmaker--founded by his tennis-champ father René Lacoste, who created the signature polo shirt in reaction to the stifling long-sleeved Oxfords worn by players in the 1920s--the younger Lacoste licensed its logo to manufacturers across the globe and increased sales volume from 300,000 items in the 1960s to 50 million last year...
...DIED. BERNARD LACOSTE, 74, who presided for 40 years over the Lacoste apparel company and made its crocodile logo a much-imitated global brand; in Paris. After taking over the sportswear maker?founded by his tennis-champ father Ren? Lacoste, who created the signature polo shirt in the 1920s?the younger Lacoste licensed its logo to manufacturers across the globe and increased sales volume from 300,000 items per year in the mid-1960s to 50 million last year...
...Princeton fell to Minnesota on Friday night, 4-0, in a game marred by a rare brawl with 38 seconds left. The win allows the Golden Gophers to advance to its first straight Frozen Four and keeps their bid for a three-peat alive. On Saturday, ECAC regular-season champ St. Lawrence prevailed over Minnesota-Duluth, 1-0, in a goaltending duel. Later that night, Wisconsin held off upstart Mercyhurst by a 2-1 count in double overtime. The results mean that the all of the host teams, representing the consensus top four teams in the nation, survived...
...performance at Cornell. “I’ve never in my 24 years here played this many young kids this much,†said Delaney-Smith after a win over Penn in February. “And that’s why I think Dartmouth [Ivy champ in 2004 and 2005] is who they are. Three years, four years ago, they were in the middle of the pack and struggling to be .500 because they played young kids so much.â€Despite the mediocrity of 2005-2006, with its slow starts and sporadic offensive outbursts...