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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, June 04, 2010 - 4:04 pm
awww she will be missed.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, June 04, 2010 - 5:51 pm
Very sad about this loss.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, June 04, 2010 - 7:00 pm
UCLA Basketball Coaching Legend John Wooden Has Died John Wooden, a staid Midwesterner who migrated to U.C.L.A. and became college basketball’s most successful coach, earning the nickname the Wizard of Westwood and an enduring place in sports history, died Friday at Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since May 26. He was 99. [...] Wooden created a sports dynasty against which all others are compared, and usually pale. His teams at U.C.L.A. won 10 national championships in a 12-season stretch from 1964 to 1975. From 1971 to 1974, U.C.L.A. won 88 consecutive games, still the N.C.A.A. record. Four of Wooden’s teams finished with 30-0 records, including his first championship team, which featured no starters taller than 6 feet 5 inches. Three of his other championship teams were anchored by the 7-foot-2 center Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Two others were led by center Bill Walton, a three-time national player of the year. Wooden retired after U.C.L.A.’s 1975 championship victory over Kentucky. A slight man hugely popular for his winning record and his understated approach, he ultimately became viewed as a kind of sage for both basketball and life, a symbol of both excellence and simpler times. Even in retirement he remained a beloved figure and a constant presence at U.C.L.A., watching most games from a seat behind the home bench at Pauley Pavilion. Lines of well-wishers and autograph-seekers often snaked their way to his seat in Section 103B. Wooden always obliged his fans, until the university and his family requested that he be granted privacy in January 2008, when he was 97. [...] Wooden’s success fed upon itself. When he won his first two national championships, landed Alcindor and moved home games to the new Pauley Pavilion, high school stars begged to play for him. Besides Abdul-Jabbar and Walton, Wooden turned out celebrated players like Gail Goodrich, Walt Hazzard, Keith Erickson, Henry Bibby, Lucius Allen, Sidney Wicks, Jamaal Wilkes and Marques Johnson. “He was almost a mystical figure by the time I got to U.C.L.A.,” said Johnson, a starter on Wooden’s final team. “I couldn’t really sit down and have a conversation with him about real things just because I had so much reverence for him — for who he was and what he had accomplished.” [...] there's more at the link. i'm kinda destroyed right now...he's such a legend at UCLA...it's impossible to imagine the place without the possibility of him showing up at Pauley
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, June 04, 2010 - 7:01 pm
John Wooden has died at 99. This man has been so inspirational and influential in college sports. The Women's College World Series has been featuring one of his inspiring pep talks at the beginning of their coverage for the past few weeks. RIP Mr. Wooden espn video obit
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 05, 2010 - 12:41 am
One person who deserves to be called a legend.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, June 05, 2010 - 7:46 am
He had a great life.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, June 05, 2010 - 2:18 pm
He was a true Indiana treasure.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, June 06, 2010 - 1:27 pm
For sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They ought to pay tribute to him at UCLA by naming some sports hall in his honour. No one deserves it more!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, June 06, 2010 - 1:58 pm
The school gym is the John Wooden Center (and it's probably the most frequently attended building on campus--LOL it is UCLA after all--and the floor of Pauley Pavillion is the Nell and John Wooden Court....Coach Wooden first declined the offer to name the court in his honor, then he said only if they also included his wife's name, then only if they had his wife's name first). And right next to the John Wooden Center is the Arthur Ashe Health Center.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 10:41 am
Marvin Isley dies at 56: cnn Way too young. 
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 11:25 am
Awww, what a shame.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 3:50 pm
One of the best concerts I've ever been to was the Isley Brothers way back in '76. He was way too young.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 7:29 pm
When I saw that today it saddened me. 56 is far too young. I agree.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 5:49 am
When I was 13, "This Old Heart of Mine" was a big hit and I wanted to buy it with my pocket money. But my mother's birthday was the same week. But I bought the 45 record rather than something for her, and gave it to her for her birthday present. My poor mum was into classical and opera,etc, but she very graciously acted like she liked it, all the while smiling to herself, knowing full well I'd bought it for myself. (What we called 'Tamla Motown' was really big in Scotland at that time.)
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Monday, June 14, 2010 - 8:14 am
Jimmy Dean, Country singer and Sausage Businessman, dies at 81 RICHMOND, Va. – Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81. His wife, Donna Meade Dean, said her husband died at their Henrico County, Va., home. She told The Associated Press that he had some health problems but was still functioning well, so his death came as a shock. She said he was eating in front of the television. She left the room for a time and came back and he was unresponsive. She said he was pronounced dead at 7:54 p.m. "He was amazing," she said. "He had a lot of talents." Born in 1928, Dean was raised in poverty in Plainview, Texas, and dropped out of high school after the ninth grade. He went on to a successful entertainment career in the 1950s and '60s that included the nationally televised "The Jimmy Dean Show." In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in his hometown. He sold the company to Sara Lee Corp. in 1984.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 14, 2010 - 8:59 am
Well despite eating all that sausage ( I assume ) he lived a longish life. But Marvin Isley.. way way too young!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 10:59 am
RIP Manute Bol Humanitarian and basketball star Manute Bol dies The Kansas City Star Manute Bol, the tallest player in NBA history during his 10 seasons, has died, his friend Tom Prichard told The Star today. Bol, who had a home in Olathe, died this morning. He was fighting acute kidney failure and a skin disease he contracted while trying to help his native Sudan. He was 47. He spent his entire basketball fortune and survived attacks on his life to save and improve lives in and around Sudan. He lost hundreds of family members in an ongoing war but saved or educated at least that many with peacemaking efforts. Kansas City Star Obit He did so much for the Sudanese people. Made such a big difference to so many. A truly good man, he'll be missed.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 11:16 am
What? Holy hell, that was unexpected. RIP Manute Bol.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 1:10 pm
That is tragic.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 5:21 pm
So sad.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 12:44 pm
WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo dies LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday. The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Edith Shain by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. history and became an iconic image marking the end of the war after being published in Life magazine. The identity of the nurse in the photograph was not known until the late 1970s when Shain wrote to the photographer saying that she was the woman in the picture taken on August 14 at a time when she had been working at Doctor's Hospital in New York City. The identity of the sailor remains disputed and unresolved. From then on the photograph also made its mark on Shain's life as the fame she garnered led to invites to war related events such a wreath layings, parades and other memorial events. "My mom was always willing take on new challenges and caring for the World War II veterans energized her to take another chance to make a difference," her son Justin Decker said in a statement. Shain, who died at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday, leaves behind three sons, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 12:46 pm

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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 10:05 am
Sad news. Randall Cunningham's young son dies in tragic accident Yahoo Terrible news for former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham and his family -- Cunningham's two-year-old son Christian drowned Tuesday afternoon in a hot tub in the back yard of Cunningham's Nevada home. Las Vegas Police Lieutenant Dennis Flynn has been quoted as saying that it was an accident. According to initial reports, Cunningham was not at home Tuesday afternoon when the child was found, and that an unnamed woman tried to resuscitate the child after finding him at about 4:30 p.m. She called 911 at 4:45, and the child was taken to St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus, where he passed away.
Cunningham, 47, is an ordained minister in Las Vegas. According to a family friend who talked with ABC News, about 100 people came to the Cunningham home when the news broke to sing, pray, and grieve with the family. Cunningham is the pastor of a church he founded called Remnant Ministries. He has performed baptisms in that same hot tub, according to reports. '[...] Cunningham, who passed for 29,979 yards and 207 touchdowns in his 16-year NFL career from 1985 to 2001, made four Pro Bowls and is considered the prototype of the modern mobile quarterback. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, and Baltimore Ravens. He took his son onto the field last year (pictured above) when he was inducted into the Eagles Hall of Fame at a halftime ceremony.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 10:08 am
Tragic!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 10:18 am
That is sad news.
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