The sports world mourns tonight the death of legendary sportscaster Jim McKay, who passed away of natural causes at his farm in Monkton, Md., this morning. He was 86.
McKay began hosting ABC's "Wide World of Sports" in 1961 and continued this work for 40 years. But he is perhaps most known for covering 12 Olympic Games, most notably the Summer Games in Munich, Germany, in which Palestinian terrorists kidnapped 11 Israeli athletes. McKay was the one who announced to the world the shooting death of one of the captured and later the murder of the remaining 10 when a commando raid to rescue the athletes ended tragically.
According to foxnews.com, McKay won both a news and sports Emmy Award for his coverage of the Munich Olympics as well as the prestigious George Polk award.
It is fitting that McKay died just hours before Big Brown made his unsuccessful attempt to win a Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes, as McKay considered horse racing to be one of this favorite sports.
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