BOXING • Angelo Dundee, the brilliant motivator who worked the corner for Muhammad Ali in his greatest fights and willed Sugar Ray Leonard to victory in his biggest bout, died Wednesday in Tampa, Fla. He was 90.

The genial Dundee was best known for being in Ali’s corner for almost his entire career, but those in boxing also knew him as an ambassador for boxing and a figure of integrity in a sport that often lacked it.

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He attended Ali’s 70th birthday bash last month.

Spoonhour, popular coach, dies at 72

college basketball • Charlie Spoonhour, the popular, homespun coach who took Saint Louis to three NCAA tournaments behind a prolific offense, has died after battling a lung disease. He was 72. Spoonhour, who also coached at Missouri State and UNLV, died Wednesday, said Walker’s Funeral Home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Spoonhour, who was diagnosed in 2010 with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, was 373-202 in 19 seasons as a Division I head coach.

Raiders bring back coordinator Knapp

NFL • Oakland Raiders coach Dennis Allen made the first hire for his new staff on Wednesday, bringing back Greg Knapp as the team’s offensive coordinator. Knapp spent the past two seasons as quarterbacks coach in Houston but was coordinator in Oakland under Lane Kiffin and Tom Cable in 2007-08.

The Associated Press