Sports Deaths Ex-NBA player Joe C. Meriweather dead at 59 COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Former NBA player Joe C. Meriweather, who later coached women’s basketball at Park University in Missouri, has died in Columbus, Ga. He was 59. Park athletic department spokesman Steve Wilson says Meriweather, of Phenix City, Ala., died unexpectedly Sunday, and cause of death was unknown. Wilson said Meriweather is the most successful women’s basketball coach in Park University history. He led the team to its only NAIA national championship tournament in the 2005-06 season. The 10-year NBA veteran played for the Houston Rockets, the Atlanta Hawks, the New Orleans Jazz, the New York Knicks and the Kansas City Kings. He also had played in Italy and Spain. The 6-foot-10 Meriweather was the 11th pick in the 1975 NBA draft out of Southern Illinois and is in its hall of fame. MLB umpire Wally Bell dead at 48 NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball umpire Wally Bell, who worked the NL playoff series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals this month, has died. He was 48. Major League Baseball confirmed Bell’s death Monday. He died of an apparent heart attack in his home state of Ohio. Bell worked the 2006 World Series and three All-Star games, including this year’s event at Citi Field, where he was stationed at first base. A veteran of 21 big league seasons, he had also worked four league championship series since joining the major league staff in 1993. According to Bell’s biography on MLB, his proudest moment as a big league umpire was returning to the field after having open heart surgery in 1999.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:20:05 +0000
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