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Sportscaster Jim McKay dies at 86 (USA Today)
Jim McKay, the venerable and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86.

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Jim McKay, Pioneer Sports Broadcaster, Dies at 86
Jim McKay, Pioneer Sports Broadcaster, Dies at 86Mr. McKay covered 12 Olympic Games and was the voice of the ABC sports anthology series “Wide World of Sports.”…Read the full post from NYT > NYTimes.com HomeTags: Television, Olympic Games, Athletics and Sports, ABC Inc, Deaths (Obituaries), McKay, Jim via

Wide World of Sports Intro

The opening title sequence to ABC’s Wide World of Sports from 1984.

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Sportscaster Jim McKay dies at 86
Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three simple words: “They’re all gone.” The groundbreaking sportscaster died Saturday of natural causes at his farm in Monkton, Md. He was 86.

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