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Oct. 29 — Tay Wilson, 89, former International Olympic Committee member of New Zealand.
Oct. 29 — John Kadlec, University of Missouri sports icon whose Tigers career spanned more than a half-century as player, coach, administrator and broadcaster. Known as "Mr. Mizzou," Kadlec played for coach Don Faurot in the 1940s and served as assistant under Dan Devine and Al Onofrio. He was a radio game analyst for 16 seasons.
Oct. 30 — Clay Stapleton, 93, former Iowa State football coach and Florida State and Vanderbilt athletic director. Stapleton was the coach for the Cyclones from 1958 until 1967, compiling a record of 42-53-4. He retired from coaching in 1967 to become Iowa State's athletic director. Stapleton was Florida State's athletic director from 1971-72 and led Vanderbilt's athletic department from 1973-78.
Oct. 31 — Brad Halsey, 53, former major league pitcher. Halsey went 14-19 in 88 games with the New York Yankees, Arizona and Oakland from 2004-06.
Nov. 9 — Ernie Vandeweghe, 86, New York Knicks player in the post-World War II era and father of former NBA star Kiki Vandeweghe and three other top athletes. Vandeweghe, who played 13 seasons in the NBA, averaged 9.5 points and 4.6 rebounds in 224 regular-season games for the Knicks from 1949-56. In college, he averaged 19.1 points in four seasons at Colgate. He was chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and served on the Olympic Sports Commission.
Nov. 9 — Orlando Thomas, 42, former Minnesota Vikings safety. Thomas picked off nine passes that year in 1995 and finished with 22 for his career. He scored four touchdowns on returns and was a key player on two Vikings teams that reached the NFC championship game, after the 1998 and 2000 seasons.
Nov. 10 — Kelvin Moore, 57, former Oakland Athletics first baseman who played parts of three major league seasons. Moore was a member of Oakland's 1981 AL West champion team.
Nov. 11 — Shep Goldberg, 65, one of the leading sports agents in the Olympic world. Goldberg guided the careers of Mary Lou Retton and Michelle Kwan and also worked with 2010 Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek and currently was representing 2014 Olympian Jason Brown.
Nov. 13 — Alvin Dark, 92, player and manager on World Series champions. Dark was the 1948 Rookie of the Year and a three-time All-Star shortstop. He played alongside Willie Mays when the New York Giants won the 1954 title, and he guided Reggie Jackson and the Oakland Athletics to the 1974 crown. Dark hit .289 with 126 home runs in 14 seasons with the Braves, Giants, St. Louis, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia. In 1961, Dark began a managing career that spanned 13 seasons in which he went 994-954 with the Giants, Kansas City and Oakland A's, Cleveland and San Diego.
Nov. 15 — Peter Dalis, 76, former athletic director at UCLA. Dalis' tenure from 1983-2002 made him the Pacific-10's longest serving athletic director. During a 19-year stretch the school won 39 NCAA championships. The football team played in 12 bowl games and won eight during his tenure. The men's basketball team made 15 NCAA tournament appearances, winning a national title in 1995 and reaching the regional final twice and the Sweet 16 five other times.
Nov. 15 — Mary Alison Glen-Haig, 96, one of the first women to be a member of the International Olympic Committee. Glen-Haig competed in fencing events for Britain at four Olympics from 1948 to 1960 and later became an official of the sport's governing body, the FIE. Glen-Haig was a member of the IOC from 1982 to 1994.
Nov. 16 — Ian Craig, 79, Australia's youngest test cricket player at 17 and its youngest captain at 22. A right-hand batsman, Craig became the youngest player to play a test for Australia when he made his debut against South Africa in 1953 aged 17 years, 239 days.
Nov. 16 — Dessie Hughes, 71, a leading Irish racehorse trainer who rode Davy Lad to victory in the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1977. Hughes enjoyed great success at the Cheltenham Festival, first as a jockey when he followed up his Gold Cup win by riding Monksfield to a win in the Champion Hurdle in 1979. As a trainer, he won the Champion Hurdle with Hardy Eustace in 2004 and '05.
Nov. 18 — Almer Lee, 63, the first African American to letter in basketball for the Arkansas Razorbacks. Lee led the Razorbacks in scoring in 1970 and 1971 as a sophomore and a junior.
Nov. 23 — Pat Quinn, 71, former defenseman and longtime NHL coach and executive. Quinn played parts of nine seasons in the NHL and went on to coach Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto. Quinn guided Canada to the championship at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, the country's first gold medal in men's hockey in 50 years. He was behind the bench when Canada won the World Cup of Hockey in 2004. Quinn coached Vancouver to the 1994 Stanley Cup final and helped the Maple Leafs reach the Eastern Conference finals two times.
Nov. 23 — Larry Kelm, 49, linebacker on Texas A&M's Wrecking Crew defense who went on to play in the NFL. Kelm played for the Aggies from 1983-86 and went on to play with the Los Angeles Rams from 1987-92. He finished his career with the San Francisco 49ers in 1993.
Nov. 23 — Dorothy "Dodo" Cheney, 98, the first American woman to win the tournament now known as the Australian Open. In addition to her 1938 singles title at the Australian Championships, Cheney reached the semifinals at least once at each of the other three Grand Slam tournaments and was ranked in the top 10 in the 1930s and 1940s.
Nov. 23 — Murray Oliver, 77, five-time All-Star who briefly coached the Minnesota North Stars. Oliver played for Detroit, Boston, Toronto and the North Stars in a career that started in 1957 and ended in 1975. He scored 274 goals in 1,127 NHL games.
Nov. 24 — Viktor Tikhonov, 84, Soviet hockey coach whose teams won three Olympic gold medals but fell to the United States in the "Miracle on Ice." While a successful player, winning four Soviet titles as a defenseman, Tikhonov came into his own during 14 years in charge of the Soviet national team. Under Tikhonov, the Soviet "Big Red Machine" was a powerhouse, although it had to settle for the silver medal at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid after the stunning defeat to the United States. Tikhonov's teams went on to win Olympic gold in 1984 and 1988, and he took the post-Soviet Unified Team to another gold at the 1992 Games. He also led the Soviet team to eight world championship titles.
Nov. 24 — Ray Sadecki, 73, former major league pitcher. Sadecki pitched in the major leagues for 18 seasons and went 20-11 for the 1964 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals. The left-hander had a 135-131 career record with a 3.78 ERA with St. Louis, San Francisco, the New York Mets, Atlanta, Kansas City and Milwaukee.
Nov. 26 — Gilles Tremblay, 75, former Montreal Canadiens forward who played on four Stanley Cup-winning teams in the 1960s. He played his entire nine-year career with the Canadiens, scoring 168 goals and adding 162 assists over 509 regular-season games.
Nov. 27 — Jack Kyle, 88, the dashing flyhalf for Ireland in the 1940s and '50s and one of rugby's greatest players. Kyle played 46 times for Ireland during an 11-year international career, scoring seven tries. He helped the country win a grand slam in the Five Nations in 1948. He was a pivotal figure in Five Nations title wins in 1949 and '51.
Nov. 27 — Phillip Hughes, 25, Australian cricketer died from a "catastrophic" injury to his head, two days after being struck by a delivery during a match.
Nov. 29 — Dick Bresciani, 76, longtime Boston Red Sox head of public relations. Bresciani spent 42 years with the ballclub and was a member of the Red Sox, UMass and Cape Cod Baseball League Halls of Fame.
Nov. 30 — Marvin "Whitey" Helling, 91, football coach who helped build the University of North Dakota into a Division II power. Helling was the school's head coach for 11 years, from 1957 to 1967, and had a record of 60-35-3.
Nov. 30 — Pete Rodriquez, 75, one of the first Hispanic coaches in pro football. Rodriguez worked for the Raiders, Cardinals, Redskins, Seahawks and Jaguars, as well as for two USFL and one CFL team.
Dec. 1 — Kosta Karageorge, 22, Ohio State wrestler for three years and a senior defensive tackle who joined the football team as a walk-on this season. Karageorge died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Dec. 2 — Jean Beliveau, 83, winner of 10 Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens and one of the most revered figures in the sport. A supremely skilled center who spent 18 full seasons and parts of two others with Montreal, Beliveau was also a popular ambassador for the sport. He scored 507 goals and captained the Canadiens for 10 seasons before his retirement in 1971, then moved seamlessly into an executive position with the club.
Dec. 3 — Jim Swink, 78, star TCU running back and College Football Hall of Fame inductee who bypassed a professional football career to become a doctor. The 6-foot-1, 180-pound "Rusk Rambler" was the nation's leading scorer and second-leading rusher in his junior year with the Horned Frogs in 1955, scoring 125 points and carrying for 1,283 yards.
Dec. 14 — Fuzzy Thurston, 80, former Packers guard and a member of the great Green Bay teams of the 1960s. Born Fred Thurston, he was best known for his blocking on the Packers' famed power sweep. He helped Green Bay win five NFL championships. He also won a title with Baltimore in 1958.
Dec. 14 — Sy Berger, 91, the father of the modern baseball trading card who designed the famed Topps versions in the 1950s.
Dec. 14 — Jakell Mitchell, 18, Auburn freshman football player was shot and killed at an apartment complex near the university campus.
Dec. 19 — Ernie Terrell, 75, former heavyweight boxing champion. In 1965, Terrell won a unanimous 15-round decision over Eddie Machen for the vacant World Boxing Association title. Machen defended his crown twice before he suffered a punishing loss to Muhammad Ali in a 1967 grudge match. In 55 professional fights, he posted a 46-9 record with 21 knockouts.
Dec. 21 — Paul Walther, 87, former NBA player. Walther played six seasons in the NBA in the 1950s after a stellar college career at Tennessee.
Dec. 22 — Fritz Sdunek, 67, former boxing trainer. Sdunek coached Vitali Klitschko to a string of heavyweight titles. He also trained Wladimir Klitschko, middleweight champion Felix Sturm and light-heavyweight champion Dariusz Michalczewski. As a trainer in East Germany, he coached Andreas Zuelow, who won Olympic gold in 1988.
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