RIP The Iron Sheik. One of the great wrestling heels of all time.
His A&E Biography just aired maybe a month ago? Top-5 heel for sure.
Posted 07 June 2023 - 02:01 PM
RIP The Iron Sheik. One of the great wrestling heels of all time.
Posted 07 June 2023 - 08:08 PM
Roger Craig Former MLB pitcher, pitching coach and manager. He was 93.
Humm Baby.
Posted 12 June 2023 - 07:23 PM
Former AFL and NFL kicker Jim Turner, 82. He made three field goals in the Jets' 16-7 victory over the Colts in Super Bowl III, including a 9-yarder which set an impossible-to-break Super Bowl record for the shortest field goal. He also kicked for Denver against Dallas in Super Bowl XII.
Posted 13 June 2023 - 03:51 PM
Cormac McCarthy
Posted 14 June 2023 - 07:20 AM
Cormac McCarthy
2005 No Country for Old Men
2006 The Road
Posted 15 June 2023 - 11:27 PM
Ray Lewis III, eldest son of the Ravens HOF LB. He was 28.
Posted 16 June 2023 - 11:02 AM
Former NFL receiver Homer Jones, 82. One of the fastest men in football during a career that spanned from 1964-'71 (mostly with the Giants), his 22.3 yards per reception are still a league record. Jones is also credited with being the first player to "spike" the football after a touchdown, a response to the league's policy of a $500 fine for tossing the ball into the stands.
Posted 16 June 2023 - 11:58 PM
Former Orioles pitcher Don Hood, 73. He was their first round draft pick in 1969, and would go on to spend parts of 10 seasons in the Majors. The Orioles traded him in 1974 to the Indians along with Boog Powell for Dave Duncan.
Posted 17 June 2023 - 07:28 AM
Posted 19 June 2023 - 11:06 AM
RIP former Oriole relief pitcher Dick Hall, who was 92.
The term control artist fit Hall well.
Posted 19 June 2023 - 04:00 PM
RIP former Oriole relief pitcher Dick Hall, who was 92.
The term control artist fit Hall well.
Big guy, too. Stood about 6-5 or 6-6.
Hall was the winning pitcher of the first ALCS game ever played when the Orioles beat Minnesota, 4-3, in 12 innings in Game 1 of the 1969 championship series.
Posted 20 June 2023 - 11:25 AM
Big guy, too. Stood about 6-5 or 6-6.
Hall was the winning pitcher of the first ALCS game ever played when the Orioles beat Minnesota, 4-3, in 12 innings in Game 1 of the 1969 championship series.
I saw a tweet from Jim Palmer. Hall and Palmer were good friends and in fact Hall was the godfather to Jim's oldest child. Hall was a good reliever. He did not throw the ball hard enough to break a window, but he had pinpoint control.
Posted 20 June 2023 - 09:05 PM
I saw a tweet from Jim Palmer. Hall and Palmer were good friends and in fact Hall was the godfather to Jim's oldest child. Hall was a good reliever. He did not throw the ball hard enough to break a window, but he had pinpoint control.
Hall is also the last Swarthmore graduate to play in the Major Leagues. As you might have guessed, there aren't very many.
Posted 27 June 2023 - 07:26 PM
Former Ravens QB Ryan Mallett, 35, drowned.
Yeah, off the coast of Destin, FL of all places. That's the Gulf of Mexico. This time of year the water's got to be 85 degrees. The rip current status down there is currently low, which is essentially non-existent.
I'm wondering if he got stung by a jellyfish or something. Maybe something caused a cardiac event.
Posted 27 June 2023 - 08:29 PM
Yeah, off the coast of Destin, FL of all places. That's the Gulf of Mexico. This time of year the water's got to be 85 degrees. The rip current status down there is currently low, which is essentially non-existent.
I'm wondering if he got stung by a jellyfish or something. Maybe something caused a cardiac event.
Actually it sounds like they have had heavy rip currents there recently.
https://www.cnn.com/...dies/index.html
Posted 27 June 2023 - 08:58 PM
Actually it sounds like they have had heavy rip currents there recently.
Weird.
The NWS apparently disagrees. Their update as of 3:07 AM last night essentially says there was a low risk of rip currents on the day a (former) professional athlete drowns.
https://www.cityofde...ent-Information
Posted 27 June 2023 - 11:57 PM
@fuzydunlop
Posted 28 June 2023 - 09:52 AM
At least 10 people have died in FL waters recently.
Posted 28 June 2023 - 10:39 AM
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