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IN BRIEF
Devine, GM behind Cards' title teams, dies at 90
UNION-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICES
January 28, 2007
Bing Devine, the St. Louis general manager who helped build Cardinals teams that won three National League pennants and two World Series in the 1960s, died yesterday. He was 90.
Devine died at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He had been ill since Christmas, said his widow, Mary Devine.
Vaughan P. “Bing” Devine was general manager of the Cardinals from 1958 to 1964 and again from 1968-78, and was credited with acquiring Hall of Fame players Bob Gibson and Lou Brock. The Brock trade with the Cubs, which cost the Cardinals sore-armed pitcher Ernie Broglio, is considered his best.
Many of the players Devine acquired led the Cardinals to World Series titles in 1964 and 1967 and the pennant in 1968, among them Curt Flood, Dick Groat, Bill White and Julian Javier.
Death
Goalie Gump Worsley, who helped Montreal win four Stanley Cup titles in 10 seasons with the Canadians, died Friday at 77. Worsley, who had a heart attack Monday, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1980 after a 21-year NHL career.
Sports and courts
Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry was released from jail in Covington, Ky., after completing a two-day sentence for letting minors drink alcohol in a hotel room he had rented.
Golf
Two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen shot a 1-under 71 for a share of the Qatar Masters lead with Australians Richard Green and Nick O'Hern. Goosen, Green (71) and O'Hern (69) had 12-under 204 totals . . . Fred Funk had another spectacular day on the greens, shooting an 8-under 64 to take a three-stroke lead in the Turtle Bay Championship in Kahuku, Hawaii. Funk had his second consecutive bogey-free round to break the tournament record with a 15-under 129.
Horse racing
A custom-made cast was removed and Barbaro underwent surgery on his right hind leg, the same leg the Kentucky Derby winner shattered eight months ago in the Preakness.
Winter sports
Carolina Kostner of Italy nailed six triple jumps to win the women's title at the European Figure Skating Championships in Warsaw, Poland . . . Renate Goetschl won her third consecutive downhill in San Sicario, Italy, and moved atop the overall World Cup standings . . . Two-time Olympic bronze medalist Gregor Staehli won the skeleton gold medal at the World Bobsled and Skeleton Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Miscellany
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba broke her own world record in the women's 5,000 meters (14 minutes, 27.42 seconds) in the Reebok Boston Indoor Games . . . Unbeaten Zsolt Erdei successfully defended his WBO light heavyweight title for the seventh time, stopping American Danny Santiago in the eighth round in Duesseldorf, Germany . . . Two Chip Ganassi Racing entries were dueling for the lead 10 hours into the Rolex 24 sports car endurance race at Daytona International Speedway. Salvador Duran, driving with Juan Pablo Montoya and Scott Pruett, was in the lead, seconds ahead of the team's other Lexus Riley, driven by Dan Wheldon, sharing the cockpit with Scott Dixon and Memo Rojas.
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