Aaron Tallent's This Day in History

 On this day in 1922, Lou Duva was born in New York City. After he completed his unstellar boxing career with a record of 5-7-1, Duva went on to become one of the most well-known trainers in boxing history. Throughout his career spanning five decades, he has trained or managed numerous champions and contenders, including Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker, Joey Giardello, Michael Moorer, Andrew Golota, Zab Judah, Meldrick Taylor and Mark Breland.

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On this day in 2009, Chuck Daly died in Jupiter, Florida, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 78. The Hall of Fame basketball coach won back-to-back titles with the Detroit Pistons in 1989 and 1990 and was coach of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team. His Pistons’ teams, led by “Bad Boys” Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Bill Lambeer and Dennis Rodman, played some of the most physical basketball in NBA history and the Dream Team won all of its eight matchups at the Barcelona games by an average of 43.8 points. Daly officially retired from coaching in 1999 following stints in Cleveland, Detroit, New Jersey and Orlando with a regular-season record of 638-437 and a playoff record of 75-51.