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Such dramatic turns of events may be shocking and unexpected in the world of politics or the university, but sports fans are all too familiar with tragic departures and emotional exits...
Even more tragic for sports fans in recent months, though, has not been the purposeful exit but the tragic passing of young and promising athletes...
Unfortunately, again, premature and tragic deaths are not new to sports. On New Year's Eve 1972, in a visit to deliver disaster-relief supplies to his native Nicaragua, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash. Clemente had been named the World Series MVP the previous year and would become the first Hispanic player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...
...senior foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore '69 last night defended his candidate's national security proposals, labeling Republican efforts to solve pressing world problems as "tragic...
Gardner labeled recent Republican efforts to alleviate such problems as "tragic...