Posted on 07/25/2007 10:14:34 AM PDT by JellyJam
Edited on 07/25/2007 10:16:42 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) -- Bill Flemming, a longtime ABC sports broadcaster who covered events as varied as the Olympics, college football and cliff diving, has died. He was 80.
Flemming died Friday of prostate cancer in Petoskey, a Lake Michigan town near his summer cottage, his daughter, Lindy Flemming of Larkspur, Calif., said Tuesday.
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I pray he is now experiencing the real “thrill of victory”.
I didn’t know he was from Michigan either but I loved to watch him on Wide World of Sports.
Very well said.
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