FORMERWORLD BOXING CHAMP BASILIO, 85, DIES

Carmen Basilio, who won the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957, died Wednesday in a Rochester, N.Y., hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 85. He lived in the Rochester suburb of Irondequoit and was among the first Boxing Hall of Fame inductees in 1990, a group that included Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis and Jake LaMotta. His career ended in 1961 with a 56-16-7 record that included 27 knockouts. He had been in poor health since heart-bypass surgery in 1992.