Apparently none of the above - it was rugby football, both union and league.
Is Rugby football any different from Rugby? Not being snarky, I honestly do not know.
Nope, it is just a more complete name than “rugby”.
Clarence Clemons, Age 69.
Goodbye, Big Man.
Had to see the piece on ESPN.com to realize who he was.
There is a thread on him over in Cafe Society. and his stroke was announced earlier in the week in this thread.
Ryan Dunn, of the Jackass show, died in a car accident. He was 34.
IIRC, Dunn is the first Jackass “star” to die. Surprised as they all seem to have a death wish. Drunk and driving at a high rate of speed according to the wiki entry.
He tweeted a picture of himself drinking with friends awhile before his death.
Bit surprised that nobody has mentioned the death of the author of *A Time of Gifts *and From the Woods to the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor back on 10 June.
He was also in the SOE during WWII and was the original for the character played by Dirk Bogarde in the 1957 film “Ill Met by Moonlight” about the abduction of a German General.
I guess only being worth 4 points must have put you all off.
I always thought Steve-O would be the first to go.
Yelena Bonner, who delivered husband Andrei Sakharov’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1975, has died at the age of 88. Sakharov had been denied an exit visa from the Soviet Union, so Bonner, who had been receiving medical treatment in Italy, traveled to Oslo for the ceremony. The dissident couple worked for human rights in their homeland and other Iron Curtain nations during the Cold War days.
Frederick Chiluba, who served as Zambia’s president from 1991 to 2002, has died at the age of 68. Chiluba began his term by expanding rights and opening up the country’s economy, but his tenure in office eventually became dogged by patterns of suppression and corruption.
And another one from my long list dies:
Harley Hotchkiss, former owner of the Calgary Flames, dies at 83 of cancer.
If my calculations are correct, a unique pick by Boyo Jim
Yup, moving him into third place.
Whoo hoo!
Except according to your June 1 update, I was already in 3rd place, and this moved me up to #2.
Lemmie guess. Some one else had already slipped past me into 3rd with another death earlier in the month.
Maria Gomes Valentim, who had been the world’s oldest living person, has died at the age of 114. The Brazilian, who had been her country’s first resident to hold the title, is succeeded by Besse Cooper, a USA woman born 48 days after Valentim.
Here is a story on the frequency with which the “super-super-centenarian” crown changes hands.
You had dropped to 5th. Critical Mass took over first place with Brian Lenihan and Genaro Hernandez, and I moved up to 3rd with Lenihan.