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Feb. 1 — Luis Aragones, 75, former soccer coach who shaped the rise of Spain's national team from a perennial underachiever to global powerhouse with a long-awaited title at the 2008 European Championship.
Feb. 1 — Torin Tucker, 20, member of the Dartmouth cross-country ski team died while competing in the Craftsbury Marathon.
Feb. 1 — Rick Sanders, 57, former Boise State and UNLV football player.
Feb. 4 — Keith Allen, 90, first coach of the Philadelphia Flyers who became the general manager that built the organization's Stanley Cup championship teams of 1974 and 1975. During his tenure as GM, the Flyers won two Stanley Cups (1973-74 and 1974-75) and reached the NHL final four times.
Feb. 6 — Ralph Kiner, 91, Hall of Fame slugger. Kiner hit 369 home runs during his 10-year career, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He made his debut in 1946 and won or tied for the National League lead in homers in each of his first seven seasons. Several years later, he joined the broadcast crew of the New York Mets for their expansion season in 1962 and became a permanent fixture.
Feb. 7 — Ted Agu, 21, California defensive end died after collapsing during a morning training run with his teammates.
Feb. 10 — Betty Jaynes, 68, the first executive director of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Jaynes, who also coached at Madison College (now James Madison) from 1970-82, was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Feb. 14 — Jim Fregosi, 71, a former All-Star who won more than 1,000 games as a manager for four teams. Fregosi managed Philadelphia to the 1993 National League pennant and the 1979 California Angels to their first American League Western Division title. He also managed the Chicago White Sox and Toronto. He was a six-time All-Star shortstop with the Angels.
Feb. 14 — Benny Reynolds, 77, the 1961 all-around cowboy champion and a member of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. He was the association's rookie of the year in 1958. He won more than 360 buckles competing for more than four decades.
Feb. 16 — Seyithan Akbalik, 21, Turkish taekwondo athlete has died after suffering a heart attack during a tournament in Luxor, Egypt.
Feb. 17 — Richard Cabela, 77, a co-founder of outdoor outfitter Cabela's. The company that sells outdoor gear and sporting goods got its start humbly in 1961. Today, the company has 50 retail stores across the U.S. and Canada. Last year, it had $3.6 billion in revenue.
Feb. 21 — Matthew Robinson, 29, Australian paralympic snowboarder. Robinson sustained neck and spinal injuries in a race accident on Feb. 12 while competing at the IPC World Cup finals in La Molina, Spain.
Feb. 21 — Ed O'Brien, 83, former Seattle University basketball and baseball star and administrator.
Feb. 22 — Barney Nugent, 61, former athletic trainer for the San Francisco Giants. Nugent was San Francisco's trainer for 11 seasons from 1993-2003.
Feb. 28 — Kevon Carter, 30, Trinidad and Tobago international soccer player died of a suspected heart attack after training with his club team.
Feb. 28 — Monica Barlow, 36, public relations director for the Baltimore Orioles.
March 1 — Wally Pryor, 86, former "Voice of the Longhorns" who served as Texas' public address announcer for almost 40 years.
March 2 — Stephen Glady, 69, former Saint John's (Minn.) football player and a member of the 1963 and 1965 NCAA Division III championship teams.
March 3 — Don Shows, 75, high school football coach who won eight Louisiana state championships. Shows' West Monroe teams won eight titles from 1993 to 2011 and were state runner-up five more times.
March 6 — Dr. Frank Jobe, 88, the pioneering orthopedic surgeon who was the first to perform an elbow procedure that became known as Tommy John surgery and saved the careers of countless major league pitchers. John went on to pitch 14 years after the operation on Sept. 25, 1974, compiling 164 more victories without ever missing a start because of an elbow problem.
March 8 — Larry Scott, 75, a trailblazing bodybuilder who rose to fame in the 1960s and became the first Mr. Olympia by winning the top international competition. He won Mr. America in 1962 and Mr. Universe in 1963-1964. He won the first Mr. Olympia contest in 1965 and again in 1966.
March 9 — William Clay Ford, 88, the last surviving grandchild of automotive pioneer Henry Ford and owner of the Detroit Lions. Ford's first full season leading the Lions was in 1964, seven years after the franchise won the NFL title. The only playoff victory he enjoyed was in 1992. The Lions are the only team to go 0-16 in a season, hitting rock bottom in 2008.
March 11 — Richard Bomze, 76, top thoroughbred owner and breeder in New York. Bomze was the owner-breeder of champion New York-bred brothers Fourstardave and Fourstars Allstar. He was a past president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association.
March 12 — Shawn Kuykendall, 32, former D.C. United midfielder.
March 13 — Terry Trafford, 20, Saginaw Spirit major junior hockey player died of self-inflicted asphyxiation.
March 15 — Bob Cheyne, 86, the voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks for 22 seasons from 1948 to 1969 and Arkansas' first sports information director.
March 17 — Gary Bettenhausen, 72, former race car driver. Bettenhausen was a member of a famous racing family and a veteran of open-wheel competition who drove in 21 Indianapolis 500s between 1968 and 1993. His best finish was third in 1980.
March 17 — Dominic Galluscio, 55, thoroughbred horse trainer with more than 1,000 winners during 34 years on the New York racing circuit. Galluscio, whose bright sport jackets enlivened the winner's circle, trained 1,047 winners. His horses had purse earnings of $31.3 million.
March 19 — Sam Lacey, 66, former NBA All-Star center, who spent most of his 13-year career with the Kansas City Kings.
March 20 — Jack Fleck, 92, winner of the 1955 U.S. Open in a playoff with Ben Hogan. He also won two other PGA events and the Senior PGA Championship in 1979.
March 20 — Bellini, 83, Brazil's captain when it won its first World Cup in 1958. Bellini also won the 1962 World Cup and appeared in the 1966 tournament. He played for Brazilian soccer clubs Vasco da Gama, Sao Paulo and Atletico Paranaense.
March 22 — Frank Hannigan, 82, former executive director of the USGA. Hannigan, who joined the USGA in 1961, was executive director from 1983 to 1988.
March 22 — Mickey Duff, 84, former British boxing manager and promoter. Duff won 61 of 69 professional fights before retiring from the ring at the age of 19. He went on to manage 16 world champions, including Frank Bruno, Joe Calzaghe, Jim Watt and Alan Minter.
March 25 — Ralph Wilson, 95, Buffalo Bills owner. Wilson was the founder and sole owner of the Bills after establishing the team with the upstart American Football League in 1960. He played a key role in the league merger's with the NFL. He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
March 25 — Hank Lauricella, 83, former Heisman Trophy runner-up at Tennessee. Lauricella was a single-wing tailback at Tennessee from 1949-51. He finished second to Princeton's Dick Kazmaier in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1961 while leading Tennessee to a national title.
March 25 — Will McKamey, 19, Navy football player. McKamey, a freshman running back, was hospitalized since collapsing at practice three days earlier and died while in a coma.
March 29 — Mike Tyler, 64, one of the first African-Americans to sign a football scholarship at Rice.
March 29 — Lonnie White, 49, former Southern California football player who worked as a Los Angeles Times sports writer for two decades. White worked for the Times from 1987 to 2008. He covered UCLA and NFL football, USC basketball as well as the LA Clippers and Kings.
April 2 — Sandy Grossman, 78, director of a record 10 Super Bowl broadcasts. Grossman spent more than two decades in the TV truck working with announcers Pat Summerall and John Madden.
April 4 — Richard "Dickie" Small, 68, trainer of 1994 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Concern. Small helped launch the careers of several female jockeys such as Rosie Napravnik, Andrea Seefeldt, Jerilyn Brown and Forest Boyce. He finished his career with 1,199 wins and purse earnings of $38.9 million.
April 6 — Ronald Cunningham, 19, freshman offensive lineman for Saint Augustine's University.
April 7 — Royce Waltman, 72, assistant to Bob Knight at Indiana and a longtime basketball coach around the state of Indiana. Waltman became an assistant to Knight in 1981 and helped the Hoosiers win the 1987 national title. In 1990, he led DePauw to a Division III national runner-up finish. He turned the University of Indianapolis into a Division II power and led Indiana State to two straight NCAA tourney appearances.
April 7 — Keisha Brown, 41, for Tulane women's basketball star. She was the first player in program history to surpass both the 1,000-point and 1,000-rebound plateaus.
April 8 — James Hellwig, 54, better known as former pro wrestler The Ultimate Warrior. Hellwig was one of pro wrestling's biggest stars in the late 1980s. He beat Hulk Hogan in a memorable match at Wrestlemania in 1990.
April 9 — Joe Aquilino, 76, longtime New York trainer whose 58-1 shot Badge finished third at the 1999 Preakness. His first stakes victory came in 1982 at the Charles Hatton at Belmont Park.
April 9 — Bobby Denton, 73, the voice of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium since 1967.
April 10 — Bill Doolittle, 90, former Western Michigan football coach. Doolittle compiled a record of 58-49-2 from 1964 to 1974.
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