Georgia Tech

Riccardo Ingram funeral set

April 4, 2015

The funeral service for Tech great Riccardo Ingram, who died Tuesday after his second fight with brain cancer, has been set for Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Norcross. A viewing will be held Tuesday noon-8 p.m. at Levett Funeral Home in Lawrenceville. Ingram, a two-sport star in football and baseball, was a member of the Tech Sports Hall of Fame and the 1987 ACC male athlete of the year, the first Yellow Jackets athlete to receive the honor. He was 48.

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Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.

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