Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 19, 1994                   TAG: 9401190189
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
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SPINKS CHOSEN TO JOIN BOXING'S ELITE

The 1994 inductees include Jack Sharkey, the oldest living former heavyweight champion; longtime promoter Chris Dundee, who will join his brother Angelo in the Hall; and trainer Eddie Futch, who worked with a number of boxers already enshrined.

Also selected were Joey Maxim, the light heavyweight champion from 1950-52 who beat Jersey Joe Walcott, Sugar Ray Robinson and Floyd Patterson during his 17-year career; and Mexican-born Carlos Zarate, a bantamweight champion in the late 1970s who successfully defended his title nine times, all by knockout.

Spinks compiled a 31-1 pro record, losing only to Mike Tyson. He won the Olympic gold medal in Montreal in 1976 and joined his brother, Leon, as the first brothers to win gold medals in boxing at the same Olympics.

Sharkey, the only man to fight Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis, was selected as an old-timer. He outpointed Max Schmeling for the heavyweight crown in 1932.

Helen Stephens, winner of two gold medals in track in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and one of the great female athletes of her day, has died. She was 75.

In Berlin, she won gold medals for the 100-meter dash and with the American women's relay team.

In the 100-meter dash, she set a record of 11.5 seconds that stood until Wilma Rudolph broke it in 1960.

She was inducted into numerous halls of fame, including the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Lee Roy Caffey, who played linebacker for three NFL Super Bowl champions, died of colon cancer. He was 52. The former Texas A&M great played professional football for 10 years with the Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers. He played on two championship teams with the Packers and won one NFL title as a member of the Cowboys.

CBS Sports, which lost its portion of the NFL contract to the Fox TV network last month, apparently has won exclusive U.S. TV rights to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. A source said the winning bid was about $375 million, a Winter Olympics record.

Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is a father. His wife, Barbara, gave birth to a son in Munich, Germany.