Obituaries Archives - Page 9 of 12 - Sports Journalists' Association

September 28, 2018May 1, 2023

RIP James Lawton: gift for a soaring phrase, an eye for the glib and phoney

By PATRICK COLLINS, President of the SJA The taxi was ordered, the table was booked, and the Roman restaurant came with the highest recommendatio…

September 17, 2018April 30, 2023

RIP Ralph Ellis: Reliable, professional, an old-school sports journalist

FUNERAL DETAILS: Monday, October 15, Weston-Super-Mare Crematorium, 1.30. No flowers. Donations to https://ralph-ellis.muchloved.com/ for prostra…

September 11, 2018September 25, 2018

Comms ‘Mr Big’ Mike Lee dies of heart attack at 61

Mike Lee, one of the most high-profile communications specialists in world sport, has died at 61. His family and VERO Communications, of which he was …

July 31, 2018April 30, 2023

Ice skating writer Stevenson has died at the age of 76

Ice skating writer Sandra Stevenson, who covered Britain’s golden era of John Curry, Robin Cousins, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and was still…

June 11, 2018May 2, 2023

SJA committee member Steve Rose has died at 54

The SJA is saddened to hear of the death of Steve Rose, long-time committee member and Senior Director for Sport at Getty Images. Steve, 54, who…

May 8, 2018April 30, 2023

Mark Wilson, the doyen of golf writers, has died at 90

Mark Wilson, who has died aged 90, was a much respected and revered golf writer on London’s Evening Standard and Daily Express before going on…

May 8, 2018July 4, 2018

Details of memorial service for Terry O’Connor

A memorial service for Terry O’Connor will be held at St Stephen’s Church, College, Road, South Dulwich at 1.30pm on July 4. Following the ser…

April 30, 2018April 30, 2023

Former SJA chairman O’Connor dies at 92

By ANTON RIPPON TERRY O’CONNOR, an early member of what became the Sports Journalists’ Association, and its chairman in 1961, has died at th…

January 22, 2018April 30, 2023

Jimmy Armfield: journalism and football lose a man of integrity

DAVID WALKER, sports editor of the Daily Mirror, pays a personal tribute to Jimmy Armfield, who has died at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer. …

October 19, 2017April 30, 2023

World of basketball in shock over sudden death of Kevin Cadle

The Basketball Journalists’ Association is shocked and saddened by the untimely passing of our colleague and friend Kevin Cadle. He passed away …