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Nate Fleming 2001 Deaths

Nate FlemingAge: 20 redshirt freshman guard on the Oklahoma State basketball team, who was killed when a team charter plane crashed in a field 40 miles east of Denver while returning home…

sharecropping

(Encyclopedia) sharecropping, an agricultural system in which a landowner allows a tenant to use their land in return for a share of the crop produced…

Jack Fleming 2001 Deaths

Jack FlemingAge: 77 former Pittsburgh Steelers announcer famous for his call of the "Immaculate Reception" in 1972; broadcast West Virginia basketball and football games for 42 years. The…

Leonardo Follis 2001 Deaths

Leonardo FollisAge: 34 Italian World Cup cross-country skier; brother of Arianna Follis, a leading Italian women's cross-country skier. He died in an avalanche.Died: Aosta, Italy, March…

Father-Son and Father-Daughter Athletes

Athletes following in their fathers' footsteps When these former and current professional athletes go home to see dad this Father's Day—and start talking about sports—he'll know exactly what…

Snowboarding Winter X Games Through the Years

The following tables list the Winter X Games snowboarding winners for men's and women's events, including Big Air, Boarder X, Halfpipe, Superpipe, and Slopestyle. Year Men's Big Air 1997…

U.S. Medal-Winning Men's Basketball Teams

1936 (gold medal): Sam Balter, Ralph Bishop, Joe Fortenberry, Tex Gibbons, Francis Johnson, Carl Knowles, Frank Lubin, Art Mollner, Don Piper, Jack Ragland, Carl Shy, Willard Schmidt, Duane…

2006 Winter Extreme Games

(Aspen, Colo., Jan. 28–31, 2006)Snowboard: Nate Holland (men's X), Majlle Ricker (women's X), Shaun White (men's slopestyle), Kelly Clark (women's superpipe), Janna Meyen (slopestyle)…