Jim McKay, the sportscaster who brought the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" into U.S. homes as the longtime host of "ABC's Wide World of Sports" and who anchored the network's coverage of the terrorist killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games, died June 7 at his farm in Monkton, Md., north of Baltimore. He was 86. The cause of death was not disclosed
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