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Article: OBITUARIES ANDREW COX JR., WAS KY. POST SPORTS EDITOR.(NEWS)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- January 17, 1997
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Former Kentucky Post sports editor Andrew ''Andy'' Cox Jr., 62, died at his Milford home Monday.
Mr. Cox - who had a long career as publicity director of the old Cincinnati Royals professional basketball team, as a sports editor, sportswriter and a cartoonist - was a Cincinnati native who grew up in Carthage.
He was publicist for the National Basketball Association team here between 1964 and 1970 and later took a similar position with the now-defunct American Basketball Association's Virginia Squires.
In the early 1970s, he joined The Kentucky Post as an editorial cartoonist, but then moved to sports.
''He could cover it all - ...