Yabbut even chess prodigies aren’t defending their world championship at age 15 that they won a few years earlier.
And we’re off:
Australian Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/sport/melissa-hoskins-dies-hit-by-car-spt-intl/index.html
Edit: her husband has been “arrested and charged with causing her death.”
She died yesterday
Well, piffle.
Died two months after failing to get reelected to the parliament for the first time in 30 years. Retirement curse is real.
Perhaps for people for which work is the most important thing in their lives and have neither friends nor hobbies, I would guess. Which could explain her ideology. When on top of that they are 83 years old, I doubt there is a profounder lesson to be learned here. Just lament that she was on nobody’s list, 18 wasted points and an Opening Kickoff Award postponed – just a matter of time.
I keep checking in to see if there is an opening kickoff winner. Last year it was January 6, but once it was Jan 1.
Syndey Wolfe, US consumer health watchdog, dead at 86
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/sidney-wolfe-longtime-us-consumer-health-watchdog-dead-86-2024-01-02/
Brian
(Cancer, not contaminated intravenous fluids)
On the 1st.
Quite the person.
"Just months after winning the '64 title – the last for any of the city’s three major professional teams for 52 years until the Cavaliers won the NBA crown in 2016 – Ryan got his Ph.D. from Rice, where he played college ball in his home state of Texas.
He went on to teach math at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland and later at Yale and Rice. Ryan is also credited with helping create an electronic voting system that modernized the U.S. House of Representatives.
Please don’t ask me to pronounce her surname. Even after hearing it on the news, I can’t get it right.
Her death was actually December 31, so not this year. (I saw it Monday and went digging to see when it happened, wondering if she would bring anyone an Opening Kickoff award - though I don’t know if she was on anyone’s list.)
Already reported by @smithsb, five posts ago.
General Gordon Sullivan who led the change of the US Army from the Cold War into a smaller more modern force died at 86. He was also acting Secretary of the Army under Clinton.
So many pointless deaths.
Well, you cannot score until the opening kickoff.
“I can tell you the score of that game before it even starts!”