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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ transplant. Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human - a procedure that became a subject of great public fascination and fierce debate about medical ethics - died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 79. His wife, the writer Marilyn vos Savant, said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Jere Longman
Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over a certain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died Tuesday in Rome. He was 87. His death was announced by the Italian Olympic Committee, which did not specify where he died.
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1 week ago | 
sacbee.com | Jere Longman
Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over a certain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died May 20 in Rome. He was 87. His death was announced by the Italian Olympic Committee, which did not specify where he died.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
A 1960 gold medalist in Rome, he overshadowed a young Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay. He was celebrated as much for his charisma as his boxing skills. Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title before an indulgent crowd at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and who, perhaps benefiting from a home-ring advantage, was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over acertain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died on Tuesday in Rome.
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4 weeks ago | 
editorandpublisher.com | Jere Longman
Posted Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:33 am Clarence O.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
As president, he helped persuade companies like Estée Lauder and Ford to advertise in the pages of the first mass-circulation magazine directed at Black women. Clarence O. Smith, who convinced skeptical mainstream advertisers of the power and worth of the Black female consumer market as a founder of Essence, the first general-circulation magazine directed at Black women, died on April 21. He was 92.
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1 month ago | 
sacbee.com | Jere Longman
A forfeited match and a viral video. An angry knock on the door. Death threats. An avalanche of political pressure, leading to a hearing scheduled for Wednesday in Washington. The niche sport of fencing is usually not one that elicits fevered emotion beyond the thrust and parry of its matches. But it has become the latest sporting flashpoint following President Donald Trump’s executive order in February to block transgender athletes from competing in girl’s and women’s sports events.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
A fencer's refusal to compete against a transgender opponent in a women's bout at a Maryland meet has put the issue in front of Congress. A forfeited match and a viral video. An angry knock on the door. Death threats. An avalanche of political pressure, leading to a hearing scheduled for Wednesday in Washington. The niche sport of fencing is usually not one that elicits fevered emotion beyond the thrust and parry of its matches.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
A former N.B.A. player and the father of the All-Star Kevin Love, he was also the brother of the pop group's Mike Love and a caretaker for its troubled leader, Brian Wilson. Stan Love, a former professional basketball player who was the brother of the singer Mike Love of the Beach Boys and a onetime bodyguard and caretaker of the band's brilliant but troubled leader, Brian Wilson, has died at 76.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
Many considered him to be greatest American amateur since Bobby Jones. So why didn't he try for the PGA Tour? An old hand injury had something to do with it. Jay Sigel went to Wake Forest University in 1962 on a golf scholarship named for Arnold Palmer. He won an Atlantic Coast Conference individual title and became a second-team all-American.
