Don’t you mean his dad, Alex Karras?
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Franco getting interviewed just yesterday. He looks good.
https://twitter.com/CelinaPompeani/status/1605301382218936320?s=20&t=MMjuQuyeosyeWEDVc58sGg
Charles White USC Heisman winning RB.(age 64)
In amongst a great string of RBs for the school -
Garrett ('65 Heisman), Simpson ('68), Anthony Davis ('74 runner up, voting before historic last game), Ricky Bell ('76 Runner up), White ('79), Allen ('81) - plus Sam Cunningham (FB ’ 70)
Disappointing career, other than one season late on
He was in pretty bad shape a few months ago when the LA Times wrote a profile on him. Another sad story of 80’s drug life combined with concussions.
Frank Thomas (elder) - Solid ball player and one of the few bright spots of the Inaugural Mets season. 93.
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wasn’t even included among the CBS Sunday Morning obituaries
Sal Bando 3B from A’s 70s 3-peat. 78. - Fuck Cancer.
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Must have gotten letters, was in this week
Billy Packer - 82
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Bobby Hull was the only NHL superstar I knew personally: he was a family friend from the area in Ontario I grew up in. Still have the photo he signed for my son some 30+ years ago.
RIP Bobby.
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Tim McCarver - MLB player and announcer - 81
A stadium in Memphis was named for him - Tim McCarver Memorial Stadium is finally appropriate
There was a highway near me that was named in honor of a retired congressman. The signs they initially put up had “Memorial Highway” after his name. Problem was he hadn’t died yet. A few months later they replaced all the signs. I hope they saved the ones they took down.
RIP, Tim McCarver. I liked him as an announcer.
I also liked McCarver as an announcer. In my younger baseball card days, I remember he was 1 of only a few who played in the 50s/60s/70s/80s. I know Jim Kaat also did.
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Flop… Dick Fosbury
From the LA Times:
As a kid, Fosbury threw himself into sports as a way of dealing with grief after his younger brother, Greg, was killed by a drunk driver while the two boys were riding bikes. Unable to stick with the football or basketball teams, Fosbury tried track but struggled there with the preferred jump technique of those days — the straddle.
“He just looked at the thing differently, and it really worked,” said Eric Hintz of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. “And he had the guts and fortitude to stick with it in the face of criticism.”
Fosbury’s biographer, Bob Welch, wrote that Fosbury was fine dealing with people ridiculing his style because, to him, it still wasn’t as painful as the sorrow he felt over the loss of his brother.
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I was familiar with the Fosbury Flop but not the story about his brother. I lost a younger brother 30 years ago and still think of him every day. RIP Dick Fosbury.
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Willis Reed 80. A little before my time but his coming out of the tunnel for G7 of the NBA finals after getting injured in G5 is still talked about.
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Vida Blue - excellent pitcher - better name - age 73
MVP, Cy Young, 6 AS games, 3 championships
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