When Marvin Miller, the groundbreaking leader of the Major League Baseball Players Association, died last week, it led to renewed calls for his election to the Hall of Fame, an honor that was denied him in five votes over the last decade.But in consideration of his case for Cooperstown, another name also comes to mind: Scott Boras.Hear me out.Read More…
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Actor Pat Renella has died, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Renella, who starred in the 1970s TV series “Mannix,” as well as gangster Johnny Ross who’s killed by Steve McQueen in the 1968 crime thriller “Bullitt,” was 83.The legendary character actor, who worked in Hollywood for more than five decades, died on Nov. 9 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., after a lengthy illness, his niece Judy Portone told THR.Read More…
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Attorneys for Florida A&M University are asking a judge in Orlando to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by the family of a school drum major who died last year after being hazed by fellow band members.Attorneys are going before Circuit Judge Walter Komanski on Wednesday, claiming that Robert Champions’ fatal injuries were the result of his agreeing to participate in hazing.Read More…
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Following lead of self-immolating protestor, 2nd Israeli man sets himself on fire due to debts
JERUSALEM – Israeli police says a second Israeli man has set himself on fire after falling on hard times.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a man in his late 40s set himself ablaze Sunday near a bus stop in central Israel. Onlookers tried to extinguish the flames. He was rushed to the hospital with severe burns.The man’s brother told Israeli media he faced large debts and warned his family he would follow in the footsteps of Moshe Silman, who set himself on fire at a protest against Israel’s high cost of living last week. Silman later died of his wounds and was buried Sunday.Cases of self-immolation as a form of protest are extremely rare in Israel, but Rosenfeld said four Israelis have attempted or threatened it since Silman’s act. © The Canadian Press, 2012 … Read More
Carson Dean Cheney, 4, Dies After Tombstone Falls On Him
A 4-year-old boy is dead after a large tombstone toppled onto him while his family and some friends gathered to take pictures at a historic cemetery in a Utah ski resort town. Carson Dean Cheney was at the Glenwood Cemetery in Park City on Thursday evening when the 6-foot-tall headstone detached from its base and fell on him, Park City police Capt. Phil Kirk said Friday. The headstone was about 4 inches thick and weighed hundreds of pounds. “There’s still so much disbelief and sorrow and anguish,” the boy’s grandmother Geri Gibbs told The Associated Press. “We just keep waiting for the door to open up and Carson to come through, a happy little boy.” She said Carson was just about to enter kindergarten, loved to ride his bike and was “full of life.” Investigators were still probing the incident Friday. Gibbs said the boy and his family were visiting from Lehi, about an hour away, and were at the old cemetery while his father took photos of friends and relatives. The boy was holding onto the headstone when some metal connecting it to the pedestal broke, Gibbs said. She said it took three men to pull the slab off the boy, and rescuers “did everything they could possibly do.” The child suffered injuries to his head, chest and abdomen and was taken to the nearby Park City Medical Center, where he died a short time later. Curtis Morley is a family friend and works with the boy’s father, Zac Cheney, at a professional services firm in Salt Lake City. He said Zac Cheney does photography in his spare time and was shooting portraits at the cemetery because of its extensive landscaping. Morley said some of the children being photographed were not being responsive, so Carson tried to help his dad by pretending to be leprechaun and making them laugh. Morley said the boy went behind a tombstone and was playfully poking his head out from behind it when it fell on him. “Carson passed away while trying to make others smile,” Morley said. Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said the heavy, coarse stone marked the grave of someone who died in the 1800s. Bruce Erickson, president of the Glenwood Cemetery Association, said the private, five-acre cemetery around the corner from Park City Mountain Resort was founded by a society of silver miners in 1885, and many of the tombstones are at least 100 years old. The cemetery is open to the public and still accepts burials of people connected to the mining society. Erickson said no funerals were held there Thursday. New burials happen maybe just once a year, he said, and families are responsible for maintaining the headstones. Erickson said the cemetery likely will be closed through the weekend. A funeral for the boy is set for Tuesday. Morley said a memorial fund has been set up at Zions Bank. (Source: Huffington Post) … Read More
