Pete NewellBorn: Aug. 31, 1915Basketball coached at Univ. of San Francisco, Michigan St. and the Univ. of California; first coach to win NIT (San Francisco-1949), NCAA (California-1959) and…
Gaylord PerryBorn: Sept. 15, 1938Baseball RHP was only pitcher to win a Cy Young Award in both leagues until 1999 when Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez joined him; retired in 1983 with 314-…
Maurice RichardBorn: Aug. 4, 1921Hockey RW the “Rocket”; 8-time NHL 1st team All-Star; MVP in 1947; 1st to score 50 goals in one season (1944-45); 544 career goals; played on 8 Stanley Cup…
Michael SchumacherBorn: Jan. 3, 1969German auto racer auto racer; Formula One’s all-time win leader with 82 grand prix victories (and counting); 7-time world champion (1994-95,2000-04); broke…
1. “Will (sankalpa) is better than mind. For when a man wills, then he thinks in his mind, then he sends forth speech, and he sends it forth in a name. In a name the sacred hymns are contained, in…
Herb ThomasAge: 77 NASCAR pioneer who won the Grand National Racing (now Winston Cup) championship in 1951 and 1953; ranks 12th on the career victory list with 48 wins in 230 starts; won…
Browning RossAge: 74 formed the Philadelphia Road Runners Club in 1957 which expanded into a national organization a year later and became what is today the 180,000-member Road Runners Club…
Joeseph “Papa Joe” Smith Sr. Age: 60 drag racer; killed when his car never slowed down after crossing the finish line at 127 mph and slammed into a cement retaining wall at Heartland…
Woody StephensAge: 84 legendary thoroughbred racing trainer who won the Eclipse Award in 1983 as the nation's No. 1 trainer; his horses won five straight Belmont Stakes races in the 1980s;…
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