# Celebrity Death Pool 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993 "2014-12-01T02:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/801 "2015-02-11T21:19:07Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > [Jerry Tarkanian](http://sports.yahoo.com/news/basketball-coaching-legend-jerry-tarkanian-dies-at-84-171240684.html), famed NCAA Basketball coach and National Champion with UNLV, dead at 84. Tarkanian bites it. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/802 "2015-02-11T21:46:44Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Tarkanian bites it. +1 ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/803 "2015-02-11T22:30:48Z")
Tarkanian is the first one to make me sad and not because I didn’t have him (although I didn’t.) Hell of a guy. Sorry he’s gone. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/804 "2015-02-11T23:58:02Z")
Tark the Shark is gone? How sad, but maybe now he’s coaching LMU’s Hank Gathers. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/805 "2015-02-12T01:08:09Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > [Jerry Tarkanian](http://sports.yahoo.com/news/basketball-coaching-legend-jerry-tarkanian-dies-at-84-171240684.html), famed NCAA Basketball coach and National Champion with UNLV, dead at 84. Son of a biscuit, he was on my list… for 2016. I’m not the only one who’s started my '16 list already, am I? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/806 "2015-02-12T01:12:25Z")
Well, you’re just ahead of your time then! No, I haven’t started my 2016 list yet. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/807 "2015-02-12T02:37:54Z")
If Common Bond Deaths happen in “Threes” then who is next? Dean Smith, Jerry Tarkanian, and ??? Joe B Hall? Age 86 Dale Brown? Age 79 John Thompson? Age 73 Rollie Massimino? Age 80 “Lou” Carnesecca? Age 90 Bobby Knight? Age 74 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/808 "2015-02-12T02:44:05Z")
CBS’s Bob Simon dies in taxi accident. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/809 "2015-02-12T02:50:39Z")
DAMN, **BobLibDem** , the news just broke. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/810 "2015-02-12T05:17:15Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > If Common Bond Deaths happen in “Threes” then who is next? > > Dean Smith, Jerry Tarkanian, and ??? > Joe B Hall? Age 86 > Dale Brown? Age 79 > John Thompson? Age 73 > Rollie Massimino? Age 80 > “Lou” Carnesecca? Age 90 > Bobby Knight? Age 74 Lute Olson? He’s 80. I have a theme idea for next year now. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/811 "2015-02-12T08:19:05Z")
and here is the link > **[CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, 1941-2015](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-correspondent-bob-simon-1941-2015/)** > > Legendary "60 Minutes" correspondent whose career spanned 5 decades dies in car crash at age 73 Bob Simon, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent and legendary CBS News foreign reporter died suddenly Wednesday night in a car accident in New York City. The award-winning newsman was 73. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/812 "2015-02-12T12:05:01Z")
I almost missed this, posted by Rick Kitchen (it was at end of the page, at post #800): > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > And Ed Sabol from NFL Films. Ed Sabol died on February 9, 2015, at his home in Arizona. Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > Sabol founded Blair Motion Pictures in 1962. Its first major contract was to film the 1962 NFL Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers at Yankee Stadium in New York. In 1964, Blair Motion Pictures became NFL Films, with an exclusive deal to preserve NFL games on film. It has been said by his son Steve Sabol, of NFL Films, “The only other human endeavor more thoroughly captured on 16-mm film than the National Football League is World War II.” Back in the early 1970s one favorite childhood memory was cross-country family road trips and stopping in at Canton OH at the Football Hall of Fame. Back then it had been open less than 10 years and was somewhat of a fledgling building and operation. Small crowds, at least on the days we went, and in the theater we could always ask the film operator to queue up our favorite requests like the '72 Dolphins and their perfect season. That was one of many we would request, and we’d watch those films back to back to back. NFL Films were well done, who could forget John Facenda’s booming baritone voice, and yeah the music was cheesy and quickly dated but the shots and coverage were amazing, a treat to watch. R.I.P., Ed, and say hello to Steve for us fans down here. And thank you both for your good works. Between your films and network TV coverage (say hi to Pete too, while you’re at it), you helped take a young league and showed the world what a great game football is. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/813 "2015-02-12T14:05:29Z")
> [@lel](#): > > Lute Olson? He’s 80. I have a theme idea for next year now. Not a coach but to go with the basketball theme it doesn’t look good for [Anthony Mason](http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/12/ex-knicks-enforcer-anthony-mason-fighting-for-life-following-sur/21141997/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl11%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D611940). ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/814 "2015-02-13T11:14:54Z")
New York Times media columnist David Carr is [dead at 42 points.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/12/new-york-times-media-columnist-david-carr-is-dead-at-58/) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/815 "2015-02-13T14:14:19Z")
Ray Hathaway, the second-oldest MLB player alive has[given up that title at 2 points](http://www.citizen-times.com/story/sports/2015/02/12/former-asheville-tourists-manager-ray-hathaway-dies/23314181/). He played with the Dodgers in 1945. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/816 "2015-02-13T21:21:46Z")
Just heard a DJ announce that [Gary Owens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Owens) has died. Unable to find confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/817 "2015-02-13T21:32:01Z")
Confirmation found. > **[Gary Owens, Announcer of ‘Laugh-In’ Fame, Dies at 80](https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/gary-owens-announcer-of-laugh-in-fame-dies-at-80-1201433731/)** > > Radio, TV and voiceover performer Gary Owens died on Feb. 12 at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Owens, who was 80, had been a diabetic since the age of 8. Owens was probably bes… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/818 "2015-02-13T23:31:51Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Just heard a DJ announce that [Gary Owens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Owens) has died. Unable to find confirmation. My heart goes out to Morgot the Friendly Drelb ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/819 "2015-02-14T15:46:37Z")
[Rhonda Glenn](http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/12322397/rhonda-glenn-broadcaster-golf-historian-dies), the **first female anchor** on ESPN who became a USGA historian and tireless promoter of women’s golf, died after a long illness. She was 68. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993/820 "2015-02-16T00:26:27Z")
> [@](#): > > French actor Louis Jourdan, who played a suave bon vivant in the Oscar-winning film “Gigi” and had a long reign as Hollywood’s top choice to play elegant international gentlemen and villains, died on Saturday at 93, his biographer told Reuters. [Louis Jourdan, star of ‘Gigi’ and ‘Octopussy’ after fighting Nazis in WWII, dies at 93 – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/actor-louis-jourdan-dead-article-1.2116405) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2015/705993.md?page=42)