07-31-2022, 12:22 PM | #251 |
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Bill Russell, RIP.
The Bill Simmons book does a great job of pointing out just how good he was. Well, that and the 11 freaking titles he won. |
07-31-2022, 01:57 PM | #252 |
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Plus 2 NCAA titles, and a gold medal. And he never lost a winner-take all game (22-0) Last edited by molson : 07-31-2022 at 07:37 PM. |
07-31-2022, 02:26 PM | #253 |
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And Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) passed away today as well.
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07-31-2022, 02:50 PM | #254 |
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Very sad about this, She was quite the groundbreaker for both women and African Americans
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07-31-2022, 09:24 PM | #255 |
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07-31-2022, 09:53 PM | #256 |
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07-31-2022, 11:42 PM | #257 |
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Ursula the Octopus Witch also died today.
Pat Carroll Dead at 95: Emmy Winner Voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid |
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For a sports culture that loves rings, I always felt he was underrated as a player. I was happy to see he began to get some of the respect he deserved later in life. That does not even begin to touch on everything he did and was off the court. My favorite stat. Bill Russell was 22-0 in winner-take-all-games. At USF, his '55 team was 5-0 in the tourney on the way to the title. At USF, his '56 team was 4-0 in the tourney on the way to the title. In the '56 Olympics, the US squad was 2-0 when it came to the winner-take-all final 4 for gold after the group stage. In the NBA, the Celtics were famously 10-0 in Games 7's throughout his career. He also won Game 5 of the 1966 East semifinals best of 5 series against Oscar Robertson's Cincinnati Royals.
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08-01-2022, 09:03 AM | #259 |
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Kevin Garnett and Bill Russell Interview - YouTube
"But if you don't (win a championship), but I see you play the way you should play.. I'll share one of mine with you." -- Bill Russell to Kevin Garnett nevermind this was speaking to someone who made 80 times what he did (at his peak) at the time (100K for Russell vs 8 Million that year for KG). That shows what kind of PERSON Bill Russell was.
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08-02-2022, 10:30 PM | #260 |
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08-02-2022, 10:33 PM | #261 |
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Man, Vin was an icon, that one hurts and I het the Dodgers, but he was the best
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08-03-2022, 06:01 AM | #262 |
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Vin Scully is the reason I prefer listening to baseball on the radio even if I am watching the game on TV. The way he described the national game of the week on TV led me to seek out the radio broadcast of Braves games when I was a kid. He came across as the personification of kindness and class. RIP
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08-03-2022, 07:52 AM | #263 |
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RIP Vin Scully.
I hope to age as gracefully - both mentally and physically - as he did. The guy roled with the changes he saw in his lifetime and never appeared to be a grumpy old 60-90 year old shaking his angry fist at the clouds like many people do.
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08-04-2022, 08:10 AM | #264 |
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08-08-2022, 02:38 PM | #267 |
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Thirty years is a long time to battle breast cancer. Rest in peace, Olivia.
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08-08-2022, 04:26 PM | #268 |
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Okay, this got me a little teary. I got to meet her when I lived in AL and worked for Orkin in the mid 80's. She and her sister had a Koala Blue clothing store in LA and she gave me one of the highlights of my then 22 years on this earth right before Christmas in 1985. I had finished treating the store and was getting my paper work signed and she came up, wished my Merry Christmas and gave me a peck on the cheek. I floated out of that damn store and will never forget that moment LOL. She was seriously so sweet and down to earth, beautiful inside and out.
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08-08-2022, 06:44 PM | #269 |
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David McCullough, historian and film narrator, died at 89 : NPR
Damn, I've really enjoyed his books. Really made history fun and accessible.
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08-08-2022, 08:25 PM | #271 |
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Almost 20 years in pest control and Olivia Newton John never kissed me.
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08-09-2022, 06:42 AM | #272 |
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08-12-2022, 05:56 AM | #273 |
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Looks like Anne Heche is going to have her life support removed soon.
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Anne Heche, Star of Another World and Men in Trees, Dies at 53
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08-16-2022, 03:23 PM | #275 |
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08-24-2022, 01:10 PM | #276 |
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Former Chiefs QB and long time host of HBO's Inside the NFL Len Dawson passed away at the age of 87
Hall of Fame QB Len Dawson, who led Kansas City Chiefs to Super Bowl IV win, dies at age 87
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08-31-2022, 11:42 AM | #277 |
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Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91
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Bernard Shaw, former CNN anchor, dies at 82.
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Hilary Mantel, celebrated author of Wolf Hall, dies aged 70 | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian
Not a typical "celebrity" but a little shocked by this one, figured there was more still for her to write.
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10-06-2022, 07:17 PM | #284 |
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Is Judy Tenuta famous enough for this thread? She probably was 30 years ago. She passed of ovarian cancer at 72.
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Yep. With our crowd at least.
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Angela Lansbury Said She Wanted to Play Romantic Leads in Her Youth
Angela Lansbury was an elegant queen of entertainment. So gorgeous and refined! Stage, screen, and television. She could sing and dance, be funny. everything! |
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And she will never be brought to justice for all those people she killed in small town Maine
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Robbie Coltrane? Hagrid from Harry Potter? Mona Lisa with Bob Hoskins (a great movie, by the way)? Lots of British TV? Is he famous enough for this thread?
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10-14-2022, 12:10 PM | #291 |
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Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch.
That's close to as recent as I go with movies, but I'll always remember Robbie Coltrane from Nuns on the Run.
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Damn, I missed the Sutter news while running.
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One of my favorite childhood memories involved Sutter. I was at this baseball game: This Time, It's . . . Whitfield? : Dodgers Do It Again--on Pinch Homer; Lead by Nine - Los Angeles Times 10 years old, young, light hitting outfielder Terry Whitfield hits a 2-run HR off Sutter in the 8th as LA goes on to win. He powered it over the CF fence. A shot I knew was gone the moment he it is. My grandfather, a Braves fan, laid a bet with me, and I got to cash in thanks to Sutter and Whitefield.
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Oh no! Leslie Jordan was killed in a car accident this morning. He was such funny guy. Heartbreaking.
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Jerry Lee Lewis was dead earlier this afternoon, but he's now back to not being non-dead.
Apparently the announcement of his death was a hoax that all the press bought. Jerry Lee Lewis Alive in Memphis Last edited by Critch : 10-26-2022 at 06:43 PM. |
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