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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Aug 31, 2020 22:35:34 GMT -5
John Thompson, 78, former basketball coach at Georgetown, of undisclosed causes.
The first African-American to coach an NCAA men's champion basketball team, he coached the Hoyas from 1972 to 1999. He won the NCAA title (with center Patrick Ewing) in 1984, and got to the title game in 1982 and 1985. Along the way his teams went to the NCAA tournament 14 straight years and racked up Big east titles and Final Four appearances. His coaching record at Georgetown was 596-239. He also coached the 1988 US Olympic basketball team winning the bronze medal.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Sept 2, 2020 22:34:51 GMT -5
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Sept 11, 2020 14:29:07 GMT -5
Diana Rigg, 82, British actress, yesterday (September 10), of cancer.
Among her noteworthy roles, she played the catsuited Emma Peel in the British TV series The Avengers; the only Bond girl ever to actually marry James Bond (Tracy di Vicenzo, in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, opposite George Lazenby's Bond -- she was assassinated by Spectre at the end of the movie); and Olenna Tyrell in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
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Post by sandipaws on Sept 18, 2020 18:55:53 GMT -5
Breaking: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead at 87
 Following years of health concerns, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87, the court said.
Born March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, Ginsburg defied the odds as a mid-20th century college graduate and housewife, eventually attending Harvard before graduating Columbia Law School at the top of her class in 1959.
Ginsburg would go on to enjoy a lengthy and diverse legal career, according to her Supreme Court biography, serving as a district court clerk in New York, a professor of law at her alma mater and the general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as a founding member of the organization’s Women’s Rights Project.
The jurist was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the Carter administration, before finally coming to rest as the second woman in history to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court — the result of a 1993 elevation at the hands of Democratic President Bill Clinton.
The oldest member of the court at the time of her death, Ginsburg had been plagued with health problems for the final two years of her career, frequently being moved in and out of the hospital.www.westernjournal.com/breaking-supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead-87/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=f3e71745b6c85933176610d2fa92f4be
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Sept 30, 2020 7:58:00 GMT -5
2 for today:
Helen Reddy, 78, Grammy-winning singer, died Tuesday (September 29) in her home in Los Angeles. The Australian-born singer, who had a string of hits in the 1970s, was best known for her feminist anthem, "I Am Woman".
Mac Davis, also 78, songwriter and country singer, died Tuesday following heart surgery in Nashville. As a songwriter, he wrote for Elvis Presley including the hits "A Little Less Conversation" and "In The Ghetto". As a singer, notable hits included "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" and "One Hell of a Woman."
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Post by sandipaws on Oct 1, 2020 15:49:03 GMT -5
Country Legend Mac Davis Dead at Age 78  Mac Davis, a well-decorated songwriter and actor, passed away on Tuesday after suffering complications from heart surgery. He was 78. Perhaps best known for the songs he wrote for Elvis Presley, the Lubbock, Texas, native will be remembered for hits like “In the Ghetto,” “A Little Less Conversation,” “Don’t Cry, Daddy” and “Memories.” |
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Oct 5, 2020 12:35:32 GMT -5
Bob Gibson, 84, Hall of Fame St Louis Cardinals pitcher, on Friday (October 2), of pancreatic cancer.
Gibson, who played with the Cards for his entire major league baseball career, is best remembered for his 1968 season in "the Year of the pitcher" when he had a 22-9 with a 1.12 ERA and 13 shutouts. His performance was so dominating that the rules were changed next season to lower the pitcher's mound from 15 to 10 inches (which reportedly made him mad). That season is remember as one of the best ever by a pitcher. He took the Cards to the World Series in 1964 and 1967 winning the Series MVP title both times, won the Cy Young Award twice, the Golden Glove award 9 times for his fielding and even batted .303 and hit 5 home runs in 1970.
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Post by sandipaws on Oct 6, 2020 15:40:33 GMT -5
Eddie Van Halen, grinning guitar god for a rock generation, dies at 65www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-10-06/eddie-van-halen-guitar-dies-65
 Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth of Van Halen performing at The Oakland Coliseum in 1977.
(Richard McCaffrey/Getty Images)
By STEVE APPLEFORD
OCT. 6, 202012:39 PM
Eddie Van Halen, the all-American guitar hero who, with his namesake hard-rock band Van Halen, redefined the sound and possibilities of the electric guitar in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Tuesday at age 65. The cause was throat cancer.
His death was first reported by TMZ.
“I can’t believe I’m having to write this, but my father, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, has lost his long and arduous battle with cancer this morning,” wrote his son, Wolfgang Van Halen via Twitter.
“He was the best father I could ever ask for. Every moment I’ve shared with him on and off stage was a gift... I love you so much, Pop.”
Eddie Van Halen was an immigrant kid who emerged from Pasadena with an ear for hard-rock hooks and wild guitar flash in the Jimi Hendrix tradition. His speed and innovations along the fretboard inspired a generation of imitators, as the band bearing his name rose to MTV stardom and multiplatinum sales over 10 consecutive albums.
In contrast to the shadowy gothic blues of Black Sabbath, or the pagan thunder of Led Zeppelin, the band Van Halen delivered muscular hard rock in Technicolor. The group’s sound and image were vivid reflections of its Southern California home, with a lead guitarist in bright colors and a welcoming, good-time grin.
“Ed’s a once- or twice-in-a-century kind of guy. There’s Hendrix and there’s Eddie Van Halen,” friend and guitarist Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains said during Grammy weekend in January 2019. “Those two guys tilted the world on its axis.”
His iconic, road-battered guitar, named Frankenstein, was pieced together to his personal specifications in 1975 from the components of other instruments — a $50 body, a $75 neck, a single Humbucker pickup and crucial tremolo bar. With a red surface crisscrossed frantically with black and white stripes (and traffic reflectors stuck to the back), it remains one of the most recognizable guitars in rock ’n’ roll.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Oct 6, 2020 20:02:44 GMT -5
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Oct 31, 2020 16:23:53 GMT -5
"Connery, Sean Connery," 90, died today (October 31), at his home in Nassau, Bahamas. No cause of death was given.
Born Thomas Sean Connery, he starred in many roles over the years, winning an Oscar for his role in "The Untouchables" as the crusty old Chicago cop opposite Kevin Costner's Treasury agent Elliot Ness. He also starred opposite Harrison Ford as the father of Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."
But Connery will always be remembered for bringing to life on the big screen Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond, a role in which he was famously cast without a screen test. Starting with Dr. No in 1962, Connery's Bond saved the world and romanced beautiful women while looking suave and debonair in a tuxedo and enjoying his vodka martinis "shaken, not stirred." Connery portrayed Bond in 6 films before turning the "license to kill" over to Roger Moore, ending with Diamonds are Forever in 1971. In 1983 he reprised Bond in Never Say Never Again.
James Bond lives on today, having been portrayed after Connery by Moore, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. But Sean Connery set the standard for them all.
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Post by SUVFan on Oct 31, 2020 20:24:14 GMT -5
I watched the Bond films. In particular, Never Say Never, which had to be a play on Connery's statement that he was not doing another Bond film, only to appear in that one!
I'll always remember Connery for his appearance in this SNL Celebrity Jeopardy! skit with Tom Hanks, Kathy Lee, and Burt Reynolds with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek:
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Post by SUVFan on Nov 8, 2020 17:03:50 GMT -5
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Nov 8, 2020 17:58:40 GMT -5
"I'll take 'Game Show Hosts' for $1000 . . . "
A: His long-running show requires answers to be given in the form of a question.
Q: Who was Alex Trebeck?
Trebeck, 80, the host of "Jeopardy" passed away Sunday (November 8) surrounded by family and friends.. He had been publicly battling Stage 4 pancreatic cancer for a year and a half.
The show had been around since the 1960s (the original host was Art Fleming) but Trebeck took it over in a 1984 revival and hosted it ever since. His calm demeanor and understated humor endeared him to his millions of fans, who provided encouragement during his battle with cancer.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Nov 25, 2020 13:23:58 GMT -5
David Dinkins, 93, first black mayor of New York City, died Monday evening (November 23) in his Manhattan apartment. Dinkins was mayor from 1990 to 1993, a period troubled by race riots and a skyrocketing murder rate (although some say police reforms he started lowered the crime rate after Rudy Giuliani replaced him as mayor).
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Nov 25, 2020 15:52:44 GMT -5
Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, 60, dead of a heart attack, according to his lawyer.
Maradona played for the World Cup champion Argentine National team in 1986. He is best known for a memorable play in a game against archrival England, called the "Hand of God":
"[Maradona] took center stage at the tournament with a memorable performance against England where he scored an iconic goal that he later described as the "Hand of God."
The diminutive forward out-jumped legendary keeper Peter Shilton and punched the ball into the net. Despite the obvious handball, the goal was allowed to stand because the referee did not see the foul."
Maradona, and soccer in general has such a place in Argentina, that the Argentine President announced 3 days of mourning for his passing.
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