More average than marginal. Hadn't much speed and his career was over as soon as it declined at all. But he played a nine year career for just two teams, and was a starter on two of those nine. Bad teams, it is true, but that's not a journeyman.
Blue Jackets' Johnny Gaudreau, brother killed in car-bike crash - ESPN Police, who responded to the scene in Oldmans Township, New Jersey, at 8:19 p.m., said both Gaudreaus suffered fatal injuries. The driver is suspected of being under the influence of alcohol and has been charged with two counts of death by auto, police said. They said the investigation is ongoing. Both brothers, who were New Jersey natives, had been in the area to be groomsmen in their sister Katie's wedding that was scheduled for Friday in Philadelphia.
Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo honored by thousands at wake - ESPN Thousands of people attended a public wake Thursday for Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo, the Nacional defender who died of cardiac arrest five days after collapsing during a CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores match in Brazil.
James Darren, who went from teen idol status acting in youth-oriented movies like “Gidget” to becoming an actor in TV shows such as “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “T.J. Hooker” and a singer and director, died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 88. Born in Philadelphia, he studied acting with Stella Adler in New York and was signed to Columbia Pictures, where his first role was in “Rumble on the Docks.” He went on to appear in films including “Operation Madball” and “Gunmen’s Walk” before being cast in the 1959 teen movie “Gidget,” starring Sandra Dee and Cliff Robertson. Darren also sang the title track for the hit movie, which was based on the experiences of a teenaged surfer girl in Malibu and later became a popular TV series. The “Gidget” theme song launched a successful singer career for Darren, who had a gold record with “Goodbye Cruel World” in 1961 and released at least 14 albums. He continued to appear in feature films including “The Guns of Navarone,” “The Gene Krupa Story,” “All the Young Men” and “Because They’re Young.” Moving into television, he starred in the series “The Time Tunnel” and after a brief sojourn in Italy appearing in Jess Franco’s “Venus in Furs,” he went on to guest-star on numerous series including “Love, American Style,” “Fantasy Island” and “The Love Boat.” Darren was a regular on “T.J. Hooker” from 1983 to 1986 and also moved into TV directing, working on series including “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Melrose Place.” He found a new generation of fans in 1998 as Vic Fontaine, the holographic lounge singer on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.”
The New York Times Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian-born pianist, composer and arranger who brought bossa nova music to a global audience in the 1960s, is dead at 83.
Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach, 81. https://www.kickaction.com.ng/2024/...6ASj5MbTM50atsTtBg_aem_Tubv0w5a77iLxnxVdX5_Uw ETA: Still waiting for this to break elsewhere. I do hope this isn't a troll.
They actually said he died of #LongCovid Many others have, but because it happens outside of the acute phase of the disease, it is almost never listed as such. We need more honesty and transparency.RIP Sérgio Mendes.https://t.co/M21k16jWhM— Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 (@catladyactivist) September 7, 2024
The president of the university health sciences center I work at is a virologist with 40+ years of experience. We have world class specialists across a wide array of medical areas. I've been struggling with long Covid myself the last 2+ years and the doctors here would tell you that. The problem with classifying a death as being from long Covid is that it's not an actual diagnosis, much like chronic Lyme disease, due partly to current standards for classifying something as an illness. In the case of long Covid, there's not enough of the actual virus in the body to be accurately measured and most of the time the tests come back negative (all of mine have) despite the symptoms being present. So, no, we shouldn't be classifying the cause of death as long Covid even though it should be noted as a probable contributing factor.
“James Earl Jones, Distinguished Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93” (Variety.com - Monday, 9/9/24)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/entertainment/james-earl-jones-death/index.html Jones was born in 1931 in Mississippi. His father, Robert Earl Jones, left the family before James was born to become an actor in New York and Hollywood, working with playwright Langston Hughes and eventually earning supporting roles in hit movies including “The Sting.” Jones’ family moved from Mississippi to Michigan when he was 5, a traumatic upheaval that caused him to develop a stutter. His fear of speaking rendered him almost mute until he got to high school, where a poetry teacher helped him overcome his disability by encouraging him to read his poems aloud. “He began to challenge me, to nudge me toward speaking again … toward acknowledging and appreciating the beauty of words." Jones studied drama at the University of Michigan, served as an Army Ranger and then moved to New York, where he soon landed lead roles in Shakespearean stage productions. He made his film debut in 1964 as a bombardier in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove.” In 1967 Jones was cast as troubled boxer Jack Johnson in a theatrical production of “The Great White Hope,” a career-changing role that won him a Tony. He reprised the role three years later in the film adaptation, becoming only the second African American man, after Sidney Poitier, to be nominated for an Academy Award. By the mid-1970s Jones was working steadily in movies and TV – a prolific run that never slowed. Over the next five decades he appeared in many memorable roles: As Alex Haley in TV’s “Roots:The Next Generations,” warlord Thulsa Doom in “Conan the Barbarian,” an African king in “Coming to America,” Kevin Costner’s reluctant recruit in “Field of Dreams,” Admiral Greer in “The Hunt for Red October” and “Patriot Games” and a South African preacher in “Cry, the Beloved Country.”
rest in peace chad mcqueen,you were a great part of the miyagiverse, your legacy will live onrest easy 🤍🕊️ pic.twitter.com/px50zem85k— sara ♡ (@purpledhawk) September 12, 2024
Colin's achievements as a soccer historian were by no means limited to Canada, where he lived for more than 60 years. He was the historian of the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the United States from 1997 to 2007, was the author of landmark books on the American Soccer League of the 1920s and the North American Soccer League of the 1970s and '80s, and was among the founding members of the Society for American Soccer History in 1993.