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So, I’m a day late. Give me a break – it’s a holiday weekend PLUS the Flyers are in the Stanley Cup, and I had some serious drinking to do. Let’s get this right out of the way – BLACKHAWKS SUCK!!’

So, 16 players had Dennis Hopper – including 12 that picked him up at the waiver wire on April 1st. Good for them, but it cost 3JCmusic.com, Charles #1, Ferral Fodder, and Jeff nine points each that the Rebel Without A Cause waited a little longer to move on. We also had five players that hit their first scored death with The Hopster – Charles #1, Danielle #1, Danielle #3, Live As If You Were Dying #2, and Live As If You Were Dying #3.  Read more... (163 words, estimated 39 secs reading time)

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97 year old charmer (and snappy dresser) TV host Art Linkletter died today in his home in California.

Linkletter’s success is particularly astonishing considering his hardscrabble background. Born in Moose Jaw, Canada, in 1912, he was abandoned by his parents and grew up the adopted son of a poor preacher. After high school, Linkletter enrolled at San Diego State, hoping to become a teacher, but his plans changed after he got an unexpected phone call offering him a job at a local radio station. “I said sure,” Linkletter recalled. “It was 1933, the bottom of the Depression. If a gravedigger called me, I would bedigging graves today.”  Read more... (168 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

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Ronnie James Dio strikes a familiar pose, which he made famous, while on stage.

This is one of those that even though you knew it was coming, it sucks when it does. Ronnie James Dio – frontman for Elf, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Heaven & Hell, and Dio – died this morning at the age of 67 after a six month battle with stomach cancer.

Dio was widely hailed as one of the most powerful singers in heavy metal, renowned for his consistently powerful voice and for popularizing the “devil’s horns” hand gesture in metal culture.  Read more... (198 words, 1 image, estimated 48 secs reading time)

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Much has been made over the years about the last living cast members of legendary films. Now, it seems, a Motown film has finally joined those ranks.

The death of jazz singer and actress Lena Horne this weekend leaves Diana Ross as the sole surviving principal cast member of “The Wiz,” Motown’s film version of the Broadway production — itself a re-telling of the L. Frank Baum novel, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

Horne shattered racial boundaries by changing the way Hollywood presented black women and who enjoyed a six-decade singing career on stage, television and in films.  Read more... (113 words, estimated 27 secs reading time)

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Fifty-eight-year-old Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua died at his presidential villa on Wednesday, state TV has said.

A presidential aide and the information minister confirmed his death. Mr Yar’Adua, who became president in 2007, had been ill for some time.

The government announced seven days of national mourning and said the president would be buried on Thursday.

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan – who became acting president in February – will be sworn in later, reports say.

Two players – Scott A and Dr. Death #3 – both scored with this one, causing a shake-up in the standings. Check ‘em out.

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11 people scored a home run on Ernie Harwell’s death today. At age 92, the Hall of Fame Detroit Tiger’s announcer lost his battle with cancer.

The Detroit Tigers, for whom he announced games for more than four decades, announced his death, which came eight months to the day after he learned he had cancer of the bile duct.

Mr. Harwell belonged to what is now a nearly extinct generation of announcers who started calling baseball on radio before television’s ascent — broadcasters like Mel Allen, Red Barber, Harry Caray and Jack Buck. They became as familiar as players to fans listening through crystal sets, car speakers or boom boxes.  Read more... (241 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

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