06-08-08, 02:10 AM
|
#1 (permalink)
|
| ◊-Dıąmọŋđ™
Mod team member
Join Date: May 2005 Last Online: Today 02:17 PM Location: ישראל
Posts: 9,078
Thanks: 1,232
Thanked 2,209 Times in 1,277 Posts
Lean: Centrist Gender:  Awards:  
Current Mood:  | Jim McKay dies
Quote: Groundbreaking Sportscaster McKay Dies
Broadcasted During Olympic Tragedy in Munich Passes Away at Age 86
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Jim McKay, the sportscaster who brought the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" into U.S. homes as the longtime host of "ABC's Wide World of Sports" and who anchored the network's coverage of the terrorist killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games, died June 7 at his farm in Monkton, Md., north of Baltimore. He was 86. The cause of death was not disclosed.
| Source: Washington Post
May He always hold you close.  |
|  |