BRIEFLY EX-BEARS CHAIRMAN DIES AT AGE OF 83.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Ed McCaskey, a former singer who married George Halas' daughter and went on to become Chicago Bears chairman, died Tuesday in Lake Forest, Ill. He was 83. In 1967, McCaskey became vice president and treasurer and held that position for 17 years until Halas' death in 1983, when he became chairman of the board. It was McCaskey who took the bold step of asking Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo to be roommates in the early 1960s, making the Bears one of the first NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga teams to have interracial roommates. --UCLA reserve linebacker Nick Carey, a senior from Valencia High, has been sidelined from spring practice with a broken left index finger and thumb suffered during the first practice last week. Carey was credited with five tackles last season. --Richard Dent, a ferocious pass rusher and mainstay of the Chicago Bears' vaunted vaunt v. vaunt·ed, vaunt·ing, vaunts v.tr. To speak boastfully of; brag about. v.intr. To speak boastfully; brag. See Synonyms at boast1. n. 1. ``46'' defense of the mid-1980s, has been hired by the team as an assistant defensive-line coach. --The Seattle Seahawks re-signed unrestricted free agent fullback Mack Strong. ... Linebacker Dwayne Rudd signed a two-year contract with the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers MOTOR SPORTS: Dario Franchitti will miss this week's IRL 1. (jargon, chat) IRL - In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f. 2. (language, robotics) IRL - Industrial Robot Language. race in Japan after injuring his back in a motorcycle accident during a family visit in Scotland. OLYMPICS: Athens organizers assured the International Olympic Committee “IOC” redirects here. For other uses, see IOC (disambiguation). The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 that delayed construction projects will be ready in time for test events before the 2004 Olympics. VOLLEYBALL: A women's tour - featuring the USA women's national training team and the Chinese junior national team - originally scheduled to make two stops in Michigan has been canceled because of concerns about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Definition Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first emergent and highly transmissible viral disease to appear during the twenty-first century. . MEDIA: AOL Time Warner, under pressure to reduce its heavy debt load, is in discussions with at least two bidders to sell the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Thrashers, an executive briefed on the talks said. One of the bidders is a group led by Dave Checketts, the former chief executive of Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference , the executive said. |
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