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Jim McKay Dead at 86

ABC sportscaster was first to win Emmy

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 7, 2008 12:34 PM CDT

(Newser) – Veteran sportscaster and TV journalist Jim McKay has died at age 86 of natural causes, ESPN reports. McKay is most famous for hosting ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and for covering the tragic 1972 Olympics in Munich, which were marred by the Black September...   Read full story »

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