The Celebrity Death Pool 2006

The same as it always does, zero points for me.

so close on Ray Rhodes… sigh…

From the ads I heard on the radio CSI: Miami is doing a celebrity death pool episode. Of course someone gets offed for the points. I don’t want to spoil it for you but… **Rachm Qoch ** did it.

Two months and 29 days remain. My list of immortals lives on. I am the death pool vestal virgin.

you, a virgin? >snrk<
I, too, am unsullied. Or at least my list is :wink: :smiley:

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/05/obit.dobson.ap/index.html

People have picked names that belong to more than one famous person before (George Bush is a common example). The rule is to assume it’s the more famous person if the picker doesn’t specify. So unless people specifically said they were picking the Pakistani actor, the assumption would be they meant the better known American boxer.

George King, who coached the Purdue men’s basketball team to a runner-up finish in the 1969 NCAA tournament, has died at the age of 78. In that title clash, King’s Boilermakers were defeated by the UCLA Bruins, who were coached by Purdue graduate John Wooden.

Paul Hunter the snooker player has died aged 27.

I thought by now someone would have included Buck O’Neil. I first saw him, as did many, on Ken Burn’s documentary “Baseball”.

And it’s still Nul points for yours truly.

Me too, actually. And I came in like 13th last year, with a unique pick even!

Well that’s just sad. There had just been a very touching and sweet article about O’Neil in the September 06 Golf Digest, and it made him seem like a really cool, lively old man.

Peter Norman, who set an Australian record that still stands when he ran the 200 meters in 20.06 seconds at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, died last week at the age of 64. Norman, who finished second in the race, was the third man on the podium when winner Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos made their “black power” demonstration during the medal ceremony.

Did anyone have Cory Lidle?

Would you believe, Rachm Qoch?

made you look!

Former U.S. Rep Gerry Studds dies…

Johnny Callison, former outfielder, dead at 67…

Dick Wagner, the baseball executive who served as president of the National League’s Cincinnati Reds from 1978 to '83, has died at the age of 78. Within a couple of months of being fired by the Reds after the team’s decline from having the best record in the major leagues in 1981 to the worst in the NL one year later, he joined the Houston Astros as president and general manager and served until resigning after the 1987 campaign.

Baldemar Huerta, better known as singer Freddy Fender, has died at age 69 from lung cancer.