Wayman Tisdale passes away at 44..........

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

He died of cancer. Terribly sad.

NBA Player Wayman Tisdale Dies at 44 After Battle With Cancer - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520323,00.html)

He will be inducted into the College Basketball HOF this fall in Kansas City.

College hall to honor Bird, Magic, Tisdale - Kansas City Star (http://www.kansascity.com/sports/story/1121896.html)

[dawgfan]

Way too young...

[DanGarion]

I was thinking this was Ashley Tisdale's father till I read what you wrote...

[sooner333]

Great basketball player, better person. He will be missed. He was a great ambassador to the University of Oklahoma as well as the state.

[BYU 14]

OMG, way too young and as Sooner said a great person! Very sad, RIP.

[SFL Cat]

Feels really weird reading about people younger than I am passing away.

[CamEdwards]

Wow. I'm glad I got a chance to see him play when I was a kid. Also a pretty decent jazz musician. :(

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Check out this Lawrence, Kansas newspaper article that they decided to run the day after Tisdale passed away. Classy stuff..........not.

Tisdale on hand for net cutting / LJWorld.com (http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/may/16/tisdale-hand-net-cutting/)

[sooner333]

Check out this Lawrence, Kansas newspaper article that they decided to run the day after Tisdale passed away. Classy stuff..........not.

Tisdale on hand for net cutting / LJWorld.com (http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/may/16/tisdale-hand-net-cutting/)

Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous that the article comes out a day after Tisdale dies. It's only loosely tied to him, only throwing him in the story to tie it to any sort of present relevance. There's no reason to bring this out unless OU's playing at KU as far as I'm concerned. Even less reason to bring it out because a big player on that team died.