IRVING, Texas - Jethro Pugh played alongside Hall of Famers Bob Lilly and Randy White in a long career as a defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys, which may explain why he was among the most unsung Super Bowl winners in the franchises storied history.Pugh, who played in the first four Super Bowls for Dallas and was part of a Doomsday Defence that won two of them, died Wednesday. He was 70.The team said Pugh died of natural causes four days before the Cowboys were to play their first post-season game in Green Bay since the famous Ice Bowl in 1967. Pugh was blocked on Bart Starrs quarterback sneak for the game-winning touchdown in Dallas 21-17 loss in the Ice Bowl that sent the Packers to the second Super Bowl.He was loved and appreciated by his teammates and Cowboys fans for decades, and his spirit will be felt when our team travels to Green Bay this weekend, owner Jerry Jones said.Pugh was the first Dallas player to lead the team in sacks five straight seasons (1968-72). DeMarcus Ware, the franchise sacks leader, was the only other to do it. Pugh is sixth on the teams list with 95 1/2 sacks. His 14 seasons are tied for fourth in club history.He was a terribly unsung person among that bunch of great players he had, said Gil Brandt, who was the personnel director when the Cowboys drafted Pugh in the 11th round in 1965.Brandt said Pugh was a 20-year-old graduate of Elizabeth City State in North Carolina when Dallas drafted him. He became a starter the year of the Ice Bowl and started his five-year streak of leading the team in sacks a year later.Pugh played on Dallas teams that beat Miami and Denver in the Super Bowl after the 1971 and 1977 seasons. He was on teams that lost to Baltimore and Pittsburgh.The final season for Pugh was 1978, when he played in 13 regular-season games but missed the playoffs, including a loss to Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl.He would have been a top 10-type player in the draft today, Brandt said. He was big, long arms, very athletic, very fast. Just a great competitor. Smart. He was well beyond his years.Pugh never made the Pro Bowl, while teammates Lilly, White, Mel Renfro, Cliff Harris and Chuck Howley combined for 42 all-star appearances. Pugh was second-team All-Pro in 1968.After football, Pugh had a successful career as a businessman through a company that runs airport concessions.___Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL___Follow Schuyler Dixon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/apschuyler nike LunarGlide 6 running shoes Sale UK . -- Sam Lacey, a former NBA All-Star centre who spent most of his 13-year career with the Kansas City Kings, has died. nike LunarGlide 4 Mens UK . PETERSBURG, Russia -- Zenit had to settle for a 1-1 draw against Porto in the Champions League on Wednesday after the Russian sides striker Hulk missed a penalty against his former club. http://www.nikelunarglide-uk.org/nike-lunarglide/lunarglide-4.html . 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"It helped to score those first inning runs," Dusty Baker said. "We havent been scoring a lot of runs lately." Leake, who leads the Reds in wins despite spending 13 days with Triple-A Louisville in May, earned his career-high ninth. The second-year right-hander, winner of eight games as a rookie in 2010, allowed eight hits and two runs -- one earned -- with no walks and seven strikeouts in 6 1-3 innings. "Im not going to stop there," Leake said. The righthander had quality starts in his last two outings but both resulted in losses as his slumping teammates scored just three runs total, including a shutout loss to Pittsburgh. "As a pitcher you never complain about runs," Leake said. "Our offence is coming around." The Giants loaded the bases with one out against Leake in the seventh, but left-hander Bill Bray came on to get Carlos Beltran to fly out harmlessly to left and Pablo Sandoval to ground out to third. "Bray was outstanding against the middle of their order," Baker said. Beltran flied out in the ninth and now is 1-for-14 in three games with the Giants since being traded from the Mets on Thursday. Logan Ondrusek and Nick Masset each added a shutout inning for the Reds. The Reds pounced on an uncharacteristically wild Madison Bumgarner for five hits and five runs while sending 11 batters to the plate in the first inning. Brandon Phillips drove in the first run with a single to left, and Jay Bruce and Chris Heisey followed with back-to-back two-run singles up the middle. Heisey, who is seeing most of the playing time since Jonny Gomes was traded to Washington can feel the offence heating up. "At any point, I think our offence can take off," Heisey said. "We didnt have a lot of key hits lately but were able to sting them toogether tonight.dddddddddddd As a hitter you hate to see a guy battling out there when youre not scoring runs. Bumgarner, who hadnt walked more than one batter in any of his previous 10 starts and none in his three most recent appearances, didnt help himself with two walks in the inning. The left-hander also hit Miguel Cairo while throwing 40 pitches, 23 for strikes. The Giants got one run back on Sandovals 446-foot home run deep into the right-centre field seats leading off the second, his 11th homer of the season and second in three games, but the Reds capitalized on two Giants errors to add to two unearned runs in the fourth. Then Reds shortstop Edgar Renteria committed two errors in the fifth to hand San Francisco a gift run. The veteran went to talk to Leake after his second miscue. "You know he doesnt want to make them," Leake said. "He came in just to pick me up. When I was younger, I would have gotten angry but at some point you learn to deal with it." Leake, who spent no time in the minor leagues until his stint in May worked out of the jam. "Thats the sign of a good pitcher, when you can pitch yourself out of trouble," Baker said. "He has a lot of weapons. He has the pitches to get a double play. Hes not a strikeout pitcher but can get them when he needs to." Bumgarner (6-10) lasted four innings, allowing seven hits and seven runs -- five earned -- with three walks and four strikeouts. He also was called for a balk. The crowd of 40,402 was Cincinnatis 12th sellout of the season, a record for Great American Ball Park. The previous record was set in 2003, the year the ballpark opened, and tied in 2004. Notes: LHP Aroldis Chapman hasnt allowed a hit in 8-2/3 innings over his last seven appearances, the longest single-season stretch by a Reds reliever since Chuck McElroy went 11 1-3 innings in from April 25 through May 17, 1994, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Chapman has retired 25 of the last 26 batters hes faced, with one walk and 13 strikeouts. ... 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