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Heaven announces outfield fences to be moved back.
Latest in my series of posts to remember recently passed baseball greats. Today is about Harmon "Killer" Killebrew, who received his final call up last week. When examining history's great sluggers, you'd be hard pressed to find a hitter whose legacy suffered more from the excess of the steroid...
The Boss Has Left The Stadium
George Steinbrenner, the poster-boy for free spending, meddling sports owners, died Tuesday of a heart attack. In 1972 Steinbrenner led a syndicate that bought the New York Yankees from CBS for $10 million. In 2009 the Yankee player payroll topped $210 million. Steinbrenner, known for going through...
Former NBC Sportscaster George Michael Dies at age 70
The sad news came to me from a tweet from Matt Terl, which was posted at http://dcrtv.com/. Anyone that is local to DC surely knows George Michael, who was a sportscaster best known nationally for his long-running American sports highlights show called The George Michael Sports Machine. Started as...
RIP Karl Von Hess
Karl Von Hess died early this morning at the age of 90 years old. He was the first heel to take the Nazi gimmick national in a post WWII world. Classic wrestling videos after the jump.
RIP Vernon Forrest
Former world champion Vernon Forrest was shot to death in Atlanta, GA last night in an attempted carjacking. While putting air in the tires of his Jaguar, 2 men pulled up beside him in a red Monte Carlo, attempting to steal the car. They apparently did not know two things: there was a child in the...
RIP Kimo Leopoldo
Kimo Leopoldo, a UFC legend perhaps best known for his fight with Royce Gracie at UFC 3, has died from an apparent heart attack in Costa Rica. A fighter known almost as well for what went on in his life out of the ring compared to his in ring career, he had recently been arrested for possession of...
RIP Takashi Matsunaga
Takashi Matsunaga, the founder and former chairman of All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling, passed away on July 11th, 2009 at the age of 73. For those not familiar with the world of "joshi" (Japanese female wrestling), this is a much clearer definition than anything I could ever write:
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