Who is Alex Trebek at 80.
Amazingly courageous man.
Very sad to read it. He was extraordinary. RIP.
NHL legend and Hockey Night in Canada analyst Howie Meeker at 97. To be honest, I was surprised to learn he was still alive.
Alex was Mr. Personality. A real gentle soul. Will miss him. Watched him for close to 30 years,even when he had the mustache
The "master of the malaprop" Norm Crosby, 93. There is no question that people are living longer than when I was young. 90+ is becoming less unusual all the time.
WH Coronavirus task force. MIA and presumed dead.
@The Old Man posted:The "master of the malaprop" Norm Crosby, 93. There is no question that people are living longer than when I was young. 90+ is becoming less unusual all the time.
Glad to hear it. My dad will be turning 85 next month.
Paul Hornung. If you're a Packers fan like me, we've lost a couple of legends the last month or so.
@mneeley490 posted:Glad to hear it. My dad will be turning 85 next month.
Bary Player 85 What a ceremonial drive at first tee yesterday. Wish I was that good now
Paul H was a celebrity of sorts in Louisville many years ago. If I am not mistaken he is the only Heisman winner that was on a team with a losing record. He graduated HS from a Louisville school called Flaget that closed in 1974. Many outstanding sports players came from that school.
@italianwino posted:Paul H was a celebrity of sorts in Louisville many years ago. If I am not mistaken he is the only Heisman winner that was on a team with a losing record. He graduated HS from a Louisville school called Flaget that closed in 1974. Many outstanding sports players came from that school.
I don't know who this is. Did he not have a last name?
@The Old Man posted:I don't know who this is. Did he not have a last name?
Hornung.
@italianwino posted:Paul H was a celebrity of sorts in Louisville many years ago. If I am not mistaken he is the only Heisman winner that was on a team with a losing record. He graduated HS from a Louisville school called Flaget that closed in 1974. Many outstanding sports players came from that school.
You are correct, and would never happen today.
Writer Jan Morris at 94.
Didn’t want to start a thread on this....today is the 58th anniversary of the assassination of JFK. What a sad day and week that was. Those of us who are old enough to remember it personally will never forget it, just as you youngsters will not forget 9/11
I remember well that day. Today's media would have annihilated JFK. The list is long: The Bay of Pigs fiasco, Vietnam involvement, Exner/ Giancana, Monroe along with many others, his anti-semitic father ("Democracy is Dead") who helped him get elected, appointing his brother AG although he had never argued or tried a case. IMHO, the media today would have had him impeached. Instead, they called it Camelot.
@arsenal4ever posted:I remember well that day. Today's media would have annihilated JFK. The list is long: The Bay of Pigs fiasco, Vietnam involvement, Exner/ Giancana, Monroe along with many others, his anti-semitic father ("Democracy is Dead") who helped him get elected, appointing his brother AG although he had never argued or tried a case. IMHO, the media today would have had him impeached. Instead, they called it Camelot.
Blah, blah, blah, thanks for your critical "insights." I didn't know that the media impeaches presidents, I thought that was Congress. You sure are smart.
Hi TOM - Thought you might be old enough to remember these "insights". Too bad they cast doubt on Camelot. By the way, go fuck yourself (again).
@arsenal4ever posted:Hi TOM - Thought you might be old enough to remember these "insights". Too bad they cast doubt on Camelot. By the way, go fuck yourself (again).
I remember Kennedy standing up to the USSR and getting the nuclear missiles out of cuba. I remember when presidents could speak in full grammatically correct sentences and actually told Parade Magazine what books they were reading. Casting doubt on Camelot, on no! I don't think that most Americans even know that it's the title of a popular, so-so movie of the time, let alone what it means in regard to Kennedy. (Unless you're given to watching CNN documentaries, which the great majority of the country does not.) In case you're not aware of it, the legacy of JFK has been pretty well dissected at this point. Your "insights" are common knowledge to educated people.
By the way, did I ever mention you can't spell arsenel4ever without starting with an arse?
TOM - We need to find common ground (besides not agreeing with each other on politics) 
We are probably nearly of the same age, and we both know a little bit about history. We're both probably well read, and your encyclopedic movie knowledge is uncontested. I believe you live in Carlsbad. I grew up in Solana Beach where I lived for 25 years. High School in Encinitas; college in San Diego. Traded the ocean for the mountains around Tahoe. Bury the hatchet?
Sorry TOM - your profile says Vista. I know that area well too. Played many sports in their old HS gym. Also, we share the same birthday month.
Buried.
I first moved to California from Chicago about thirty-three years ago and lived first in Carlsbad, then an apartment in Encinitas, then a house in La Costa (or as they like to say the best part of Carlsbad) then an apartment in Encinitas and now I'm in beautiful Vista without a vista, and in Grandview Terrace without a grand view. I think there was a view here about 50 years ago.
You live in a beautiful part of the state. I had to leave Solana Beach because my skin was becoming prune-like from all the time I spent on the beach. Today I'm helping my dermatologist pay off his house in Maui. My wife is from Naperville, IL and we go back every couple of years. Love going to Ravinia. Missed Beethoven's 9th this year when they cancelled the series. So it goes under Covid. Hope you and your family are safe.
@arsenal4ever posted:You live in a beautiful part of the state. I had to leave Solana Beach because my skin was becoming prune-like from all the time I spent on the beach. Today I'm helping my dermatologist pay off his house in Maui. My wife is from Naperville, IL and we go back every couple of years. Love going to Ravinia. Missed Beethoven's 9th this year when they cancelled the series. So it goes under Covid. Hope you and your family are safe.
I was supposed to go back to visit my sister in Chicago in May--she lives a mile from Wrigley Field--but the pandemic cancelled that. If you still have relatives you visit in Naperville be sure to say hi to my pal billhike. He's not a such a bad guy either.
@The Old Man posted:Buried.
Well, I guess your interactions with arsenal4ever finally fit the RIP thread. 
@sd-wineaux posted:Well, I guess your interactions with arsenal4ever finally fit the RIP thread.
David Dinkin at 93.
Footballer Diego Maradona.
@brucehayes posted:Footballer Diego Maradona.
I was going to make a slightly sarcastic comment but Gary Lineker beat me to it.
"By some distance the best player of my generation and arguably the greatest of all time. After a blessed but troubled life, hopefully he’ll finally find some comfort in the hands of God."
RIP
Great quote from Lineker. Maradona's first goal against England was amazing; second not so much.
His Hand of God goal in 1986 is a moment that is iconic and outrageous at the same time. It is hard to argue that he isn't the GOAT.
IW
I think it was Sir Alex Ferguson that once said "Diego Maradona was born offsides".
The Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico. I was fortunate to get to visit it once.
@italianwino posted:His Hand of God goal in 1986 is a moment that is iconic and outrageous at the same time. It is hard to argue that he isn't the GOAT.
IW
I'd argue against that. He was a special player but imho there are two players currently still playing who are better than him. Yes, both Messi and Ronaldo have been part of stronger teams than Maradona was but their stats are way beyond what he did.
Peter Allis.
David Lander aka: Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman
Paul Sarbanes— former senator for Maryland. brilliant man , scrupulously honest. Hard working son of Greek immigrants. His parents owned a small restaurant.
He was a graduate of Princeton, a Rhodes Scholar, and then graduated from Harvard Law School.
A wonderful public servant. Age 87.
(His son, John Sarbanes, is one of 8 persons in Congress from Maryland now)
Chuck Yeager -- 97. Anyone remember how excited Johnny Carson over him when he was on?