Billy Costello, American boxer, died from lung cancer he was , 55.

Billy Costello (born William Donald Castiglioni; was a professional boxer in the United States died from lung cancer he was , 55..

(April 10, 1956 – June 29, 2011)

Early Life

Costello was born in Kingston, New York, on April 10, 1956, to a white father and Asian Indian mother, one of nine children. Costello was active in the Boy Scouts. He played third base on the Kingston High School baseball team and had originally hoped for a career as a professional baseball player.^[1]

Amateur career

Billy Costello won the 1978 135 pound New York Golden Gloves Open Championship. Costello stopped Raymond Johnson of the United Block Association in the second round to win the Championship. Costello began began boxing in the Police Athletic League program in Kingston, and later trained at the Castle Hill Athletic Club in the Bronx, New York.

Professional career

During his career, he was managed by Mike Jones, who was also famous for managing Gerry Cooney and Wilford Scypion. Costello fought a lot of his early professional bouts around the Hudson Valley-NYC area, after a successful amateur career that culminated in a Golden Gloves award. Kingston, New York (about 90 miles north of NYC) eventually became his home, at least while he was champion. But before winning a title, he put together an early undefeated streak, which included a 10-round decision over Willie Rodriguez on CBS television in November 1982. He and his management then became closely associated with the CBS network, which aired several of his fights.
The one and only title he held in his career, the WBC junior welterweight title, was won by knocking out Bruce Curry in the 10th round in January 1984 in front of a pro-Curry crowd in Beaumont, Texas. He would then make three defenses of the belt, all in Kingston, and all by 12-round unanimous decision. His first foe as champion was Ronnie Shields, with whom he traded first-round knockdowns before eventually securing the points win. Next was former WBC 140-lb. champion and veteran Saoul Mamby, who replaced Leroy Haley, another former possessor of Costello's belt, on five days notice. Costello defeated ex-champion Mamby unanimous decision.
His next fight was finally against Leroy Haley. The result was a unanimous win over 12 rounds for Costello. Next, a Denver, Colorado fighter named Lonnie 'Lightning' Smith defeated him, knocking down and cutting the defending champion en route to an eighth-round stoppage in New York City to claim the title in August 1985.
Billy kept coming back, next fighting three-time champion Alexis Argüello in February 1986. Arguello, behind on points, stopped Costello in Round 4 after knocking him down. Costello then took some time off from the ring, fighting on a sporadic 'here-and-there' basis until the early 1990s. In his last bout in 1999, he defeated former world champion Juan Laporte by ten round decision in a Pay Per View fight, avenging a 1986 loss to LaPorte by his brother Vinnie. All in all, Costello's professional career had lasted as astounding 20 years, from 1979-1999, and ended with a win over a former world champion. His respectable career had only two losses to world champions.
Costello is perhaps best remembered for his stoppage loss to the late legendary Alexis Arguello.

Life After Boxing

In retirement, Costello worked as a home contractor, active in building and road construction.^[2] Costello also served as the volunteer director of the Kingston PAL Boxing Club in Kingston, New York. On evenings and weekends, Costello remained active in pro boxing as a professional boxing judge and referee in New York State at many sanctioned events. There is a Billy Costello Boxing Gym in Kingston, and Costello was involved in boxing shows in the area.

Book

Billy Costello's championship run was the subject of Thomas Hauser's "The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing." One of the most widely heralded books ever written on boxing, Hauser appeared in the Costello training camp during last minute negotiations for a televised bout with substitute challenger Saoul Mamby, was given access to the contractual negotiations, and painted a literary portrait of the inside wheels of boxing as it affected Costello. ^[3]

Personal Life

Costello lived his entire life in Kingston, New York. He was married and divorced, and had a son and a daughter, who survive him. He was close with his younger brother Mario 'Vinnie' Costello, a noted professional boxer super featherweight boxer from 1981-1990 with a pro record of 20-2-2 but who never fought for a title, who trained with his brother ^[4] under the late Victor Vallee ^[5], who also trained Gerry Cooney.

Death

According to his mother, Dolores, Costello died of lung cancer at a hospital in his native Kingston on June 29, 2011. He was 55. He was survived by: his parents, Dolores and Billy Costello Sr.; a daughter, Christine Costello, and a son, Brandon, from his marriage to his wife, Jane, which ended in divorce; three living brothers, Stephen, Anthony, and Mario 'Vinnie' Costello; and two sisters, Vicky Costello and Tammy Moody.^[1]

Preceded by Bruce Curry

WBC Light Welterweight Champion 29 Jan 1984– 21 Aug 1985

Succeeded by Lonnie Smith

 

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David Dunseith, British broadcaster (BBC Radio Ulster) died he was , 76.

David Dunseithwas a Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland died he was , 76.. He presented BBC Radio Ulster's 'Talk Back' & 'Seven Days' programmes. His career has spanned the troubles covering the turbulent and tragic events of recent years from the Falls Curfew in 1970 to the Omagh atrocity in 1998. He has reported on all the Northern Ireland political initiatives from Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement.

(2 October 1934 – 29 June 2011)

Career

He grew up in Derry. Before pursuing a career in the media, he was a police officer, but moved to journalism in the 1970s. He worked for Ulster Television (U.T.V.), presenting many programmes, including UTV Reports and Counterpoint. During UTV's 50th birthday celebrations in November 2009, he co-presented an edition of UTV Live.
David Dunseith is perhaps best known for presenting BBC Radio Ulster's Talk Back from 1989 to 2009 – he followed the late Barry Cowan as presenter – but his association with the programme went back even further than that. When it first went on the air in 1986, he was a weekly contributor with an ability to read from a script written on various pieces of scrap paper. He became its main presenter in 1989, going on to establish a huge reputation for straight-talking, no-nonsense, often merciless grilling of interviewees. In 2006 Talk Back won a silver Sony Radio Academy Award in the news and current affairs programme category. He presented the 20th anniversary edition of Talk Back on Friday 7 September 2006.
In August 2009, he ended over two decades of work on Talk Back when Radio Ulster reshuffled presenters on its news and current affairs programmes. ^[2] On May 11 2011, Dunseith announced his retirement from Radio Ulster while presenting his final Seven Days^[3]

Death

On 30 June 2011 it was announced that Dunseith had died following a lengthy illness. He was 76. His requiem mass was held at Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church in Strangford before his body was removed to Roselawn Crematorium.^[4]

Personal life

Dunseith married fellow journalist Roisin Walsh and the couple had three sons together. Walsh died in July 2010 from motor neurone disease.^[5]

 

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Stefano Gobbi, Italian Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Marian Movement of Priests.died he was 81

Father Stefano Gobbi was a Roman Catholic priest .died he was 81.
He was best known among Catholics for founding the worldwide Catholic movement, the Marian Movement of Priests (MMP) following an interior locution that he reported in 1972 at the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.
He was born in the Province of Como, Italy and was ordained as a priest in 1964. He later obtained a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of the Lateran in Rome.

(22 March 1930 - 29 June 2011)

The pivotal event

The pivotal event that transformed the course of Father Gobbi's life took place on 8 May 1972 while he was on a pilgrimage to Fátima, Portugal and was praying in the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.
On that day he reported an interior locution from the Virgin Mary. He did not claim a Marian apparition, but a locution, i.e. an internal voice. According to Father Gobbi, he later prayed to Saint Mary for a confirmation of the inner voice, which he reported as receiving in May 1972 while praying in the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth.
Given that in 1972 some priests had given up their vocations and were reportedly planning to rebel against the Catholic Church^{[citation needed]}, the inner voice urged him to gather other priests that would be willing to consecrate themselves to Immaculate Heart of Mary and be strongly united with the Pope and the Catholic Church.
Based on this event, on 13 October 1972, on the 55th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima he and two other priests formed the Marian Movement of Priests in a church in Gera Lario near Como, Italy.

Growth of the movement

The Marian Movement of Priests grew rather quickly and by September 1973 included over 80 priests when it held its first national meeting at San Vittorino, near Rome. In 1974 Father Gobbi started to hold prayer cenacles in Italy for priests and laity. He now holds prayer cenacles all over the world. During the cenacle Catholics are called to pray to Jesus through Saint Mary, since it was through her that the Church, the Body of Christ, was born. Some cenacles are for a few seminary students, while others are attended by over 20,000 people.
The MMP is now based in Milan Italy, with branches worldwide. The Marian Movement of Priests in the United States was established in 1975, is based in St. Francis, Maine, and received an official papal blessing from Pope John Paul II in November 1993.
According to the MMP, its members now include over 400 Catholic cardinals and bishops, more than 100,000 Catholic priests, and several million lay Catholics worldwide.

The messages

In July 1973, Father Gobbi began to write his reported interior locutions as messages which he attributed to the Virgin Mary. The messages from July 1973 to December 1997 were published in the book: "To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons." These messages have now become the defacto hand book of the MMP.^{[citation needed]}

Relationship with the Vatican

To date, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has not taken an official position on the authenticity of Father Gobbi's interior locutions. Cardinal Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, OFM, Cardinal Ignatius Moussa Daoud and Cardinal John Baptist Wu provided their imprimatur for Father Gobbi's messages. The MMP meets regularly in Rome.
Father Gobbi had a close relationship with Pope John Paul II,^{[citation needed]} who also had a personal devotion to the Virgin Mary. Pope John Paul II used to meet with and celebrate Mass with Father Gobbi in his private papal chapel in the Vatican on an annual basis for several years.^{[citation needed]}

Activities during the latter part of his life

Prior to his death, Father Gobbi was officially based in Milan Italy, but continued to travel worldwide to hold prayer cenacles and promote the cause of the MMP. He died on 29 June 2011 after suffering a heart attack earlier in the month.

 

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Carlos Diarte, Paraguayan footballer, died from cancer he was , 57

Carlos Martínez Diarte alias Lobo, was a Paraguayan football striker and coach died from cancer he was , 57.

(January 26, 1954 - June 28, 2011),

Career

As player

Diarte started his career in Olimpia Asunción and at the age of 16 he made his debut in the professional squad, helping Olimpia win the Paraguayan championship in 1971. His speed and goal-scoring skills were soon noticed by teams all around Europe, and in 1973 he signed for Real Zaragoza of Spain where he was part of the famous "Zaraguayos" group (a reference to the Paraguayan stars such as Saturnino Arrua and Felipe Ocampos that were playing for Zaragoza at that time). In 1976, Diarte signed for Valencia CF where he would be part of a formidable attacking line along with Mario Kempes and Johnny Rep. Diarte also played for UD Salamanca (from 1979 to 1980), Real Betis (from 1980 to 1983 where he scored 29 goals in 75 La Liga games) and AS Saint-Étienne of France (from 1983 to 1985).
In 1987 he returned to Olimpia Asunción to retire. In that year, he helped the team win the Paraguayan championship. Diarte was also part of the Paraguay national football team for several years.

As coach

Once Diarte retired as a footballer he became a coach and managed several teams including Valencia CF (1988), Deportivo Alginet, Atlético Madrid B (1997–1998), UD Salamanca (1998–1999) and Gimnàstic de Tarragona (2002) all from Spain; Atl. Colegiales, Guaraní and Olimpia (as assistant coach) from Paraguay.

Death

Diarte died of cancer on June 28, 2011.

 

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Benton Flippen, American fiddler, died from a heart attack he was , 90

James Benton Flippen an old-time fiddler from Mount Airy, North Carolina died from a heart attack he was , 90. He was one of the last surviving members of a generation of performers born in the early 20th century playing in the Round Peak style centering on Surry County, North Carolina. His contemporaries included Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Kyle Creed, and Earnest East.
Flippen learned to play old-time music early in life from his father, uncles, and brothers.^[1] He has composed several original tunes^[1] and performed with the Camp Creek Boys.^[2] Of late he had been performing with Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys.
Flippen was a recipient of the 1990 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award.

(July 18, 1920 – June 28, 2011)

Early life and career

Flippen was raised on a farm in Surry County, North Carolina, where he first played the banjo during his childhood. His father was an accomplished old time banjo picker, as were his uncles and brothers. During his youth he visited his fiddling uncle John Flippen, quickly turned to playing the fiddle and started playing with the area's noted bands and musicians, among them the Green Valley Boys led by Glenn McPeak, with Esker Hutchins and Leak Caudill. Esker became an important influence on Flippen's fiddling style, which included a heavy bow shuffle and bluesy notation.
In the late 1960s he was asked to fiddle with the Camp Creek Boys, after Fred Cockerham's departure. From the 1970s on, Flippen belonged to the Smokey Valley Boys, an outfit that preserved Flippen's unique musical abilities on recordings. The band also earned awards at numerous fiddling competitions, before disbanding in 1985. In 1990, the North Carolina Folk Heritage Awards honored Flippen, who was recognized for a unique style of string fingering. Flippen was also renowned for his original compositions, which include "Benton's Dream," "Fiddler's Reel," "Sally in the Turnip Patch," and "Smokey Valley Breakdown."
During his career, Flippen took first place numerous times in the fiddle and band contests at the Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Virginia; Union Grove/Fiddler's Grove (having won Fiddler of the Festival three times); the Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention, and many others. He also played at the Newport Folk Festival, the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the Appalachian String Band Music Festival in Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia, and many more highly esteemed venues. In 2008, at the age of 88, he headlined the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention in California.
In the late 1990s Flippen reorganized his Smokey Valley Boys with new and previous members. The latest lineup of his band often included Frank Bode singing and playing guitar, William Flippen (Benton's grandson) on guitar, Kevin Fore playing banjo, Verlin Clifton on mandolin, and Andy Edmonds playing banjo and guitar.

Style and technique

Flippen gained popularity among the old-time music community for his unique approach to fiddling. Having rather large hands, he discovered the best way to get around the neck was to slide his index and middle fingers, rather than fingering up and down the scale with all four fingers as most people do — including his mentor, Esker Hutchins. On some tunes, he slid up the neck with one finger as he nearly simultaneously slid down with another. Where most fiddlers make a "D" chord on the neck with the index and ring finger, Flippen did it with index and middle finger. His bowing was described as smooth and heavily shuffled, having been perfected over many years of playing for square dances. As Paul Brown describes in the liner notes to Old Time, New Times, "It cries the blues, shouts a spiritual message, resounds with the celebration of a square dance or house party. It's full of syncopation and stretch, yet solidly down-to-earth."
Flippen also had a unique two-finger banjo style. He said he found it difficult to play clawhammer banjo, and though he liked hearing it, the three-finger bluegrass style wasn't quite for him, so he came up with his own heavily syncopated two-finger picking style that combined drive and charm.

Discography

• 1972 — The Smokey Valley Boys (Heritage)
• 1993 — Benton Flippen: Old Time, New Times (Rounder)
• 1997 — Smokey Valley Boys (Easterwood Recordings)
• 2004 — Beware of Dog (Heritage)
• 2005 — Fiddler's Dream (Music Maker)
• 2008 — An Evening at WPAQ, 1984 (5-String Productions)

 

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Lorenzo Charles, American basketball player (NC State, Atlanta Hawks), died from a bus accident. he was 47

Lorenzo Emile "Lo" Charleswas an American college and professional basketball player died from a bus accident. he was 47.

(November 25, 1963 – June 27, 2011)


Charles was a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School.^[2] While playing for the North Carolina State University Wolfpack, Charles scored the game-winning dunk in the championship game of the 1983 NCAA Tournament over the heavily favored Houston Cougars led by Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde "The Glide" Drexler and the rest of Phi Slama Jama. Coincidentally, Charles would go on to play for a Cougars team years later — for the United States Basketball League's Raleigh Cougars.
Charles was selected 41st overall in the 1985 NBA draft and went on to have a modest professional career, playing briefly in the National Basketball Association with the Atlanta Hawks, as well as with several European teams, particularity in Italy for Arexons Cantù and Irge Desio.^[3]
Charles died on June 27, 2011, in a bus crash on Interstate 40 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was at the controls of the Elite Coach rental bus; there were no passengers.^[4][5]

 

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Mike Doyle, English footballer (Manchester City), died from liver failure he was , 64.

Michael "Mike" Doyle was an English footballer, who spent the majority of his career with Manchester City and also played for Stoke City, Bolton Wanderers and Rochdale died from liver failure he was , 64..

(25 November 1946 – 27 June 2011)

Career

Ashton-born Doyle played for Stockport Boys as a junior, joining Manchester City in May 1962.^[1] At youth level Doyle played, at right back, but after breaking into the first team he was used in a number of roles.^[2] He made his senior debut against Cardiff City in March 1965, playing wing-half,^[2] which was followed by a number of appearances as a forward.^[1] However, most of his appearances later in his career were in central defence.
Doyle won 5 caps for the England national football team and 8 England under 23 caps. At club level he played 448 league games for Manchester City, scoring 32 goals and was voted as the club's hardest player in the club's official magazine.^[3] He scored for City in the 1970 League Cup Final win over West Bromwich Albion, and captained the side in the 1976 League Cup Final.^[4] He joined Stoke City in 1978 for £50,000,^[1] and Bolton Wanderers just over three years later. He finished his career at Rochdale in the 1983–84 season.

After football

Mike continued to attend Manchester City games regularly after his retirement as a player, but also became a heavy drinker after his playing days were over. In 2007, he attended the Sporting Chance Clinic which helped him give up alcohol for a short time. He died on 27 June 2011 of liver failure after several weeks of treatment in Tameside General Hospital.^[5][6]
Tributes to Doyle were made by his former clubs Manchester City, Stoke City and Bolton Wanderers.^[7][8][9]

Honours

Club

Manchester City F.C.

• Division 2 winner 1966
• Division 1 winner 1968
• FA Cup winner 1969
• European Cup Winners' Cup 1970
• League Cup 1970 & 1976
• FA Charity Shield 1968 & 1972

Individual

• Stoke City Player of the Season: 1979

 

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