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Baseball Executive Kevin Towers Dead At 56 Of Thyroid Cancer
Former Padres and Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers died Tuesday morning of thyroid cancer, which he was diagnosed with in late 2016. Towers was known as a popular and insightful executive, first entering the front office ranks as a scout before he became the Padres’ GM in 1995....
Pioneering Outdoor Sports Filmmaker Warren Miller Dead At 93
The legend goes that Warren Miller taught himself to ski back in 1937, when he was on a trip to the San Gabriel Mountains with his Boy Scout troop. He spent all of $2 on a pair of beat-up wooden skis and a set of bamboo poles, then looked out on “the most beautiful sight I had ever seen: my first vi...
Police: Washington State QB Tyler Hilinski Dead Of Apparent Suicide At 21
Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski has been found dead in his apartment in Pullman, Wash. Police are investigating the 21-year-old’s death as a suicide....
Gary Mays, The One-Armed Bandit of D.C. Sports Lore, Is Dead
Gary Mays, who should have been really famous, died Monday night. He was 82....
Keith Jackson, Voice Of College Football, Dead At 89
Iconic ABC Sports college football broadcaster Keith Jackson reportedly passed away Friday, at the age of 89. ...
Derby The Very Good Bat Dog Has Died
Derby, Team Bat Dog for the double-A Trenton Thunder, has died of cancer at nine years old. Derby was a beloved member of the Thunder, and he began his retrieving apprenticeship in 2008 under his father Chase. Even as his face got all gray, Derby continued to do his thing and go pick up bats. Thunde...
Reports: Legendary Broadcaster Dick Enberg Dead At 82
Broadcaster Dick Enberg died today at the age of 82 from a heart attack, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune and Associated Press....
Mamie Johnson, Woman Who Pitched In Negro Leagues, Dead At 82
Mamie Johnson, one of three women to play in the Negro Leagues, has died at the age of 82....
Iconic MMA Coach Robert Follis's Death Ruled A Suicide
Longtime MMA trainer and coach Robert Follis was found dead Friday night near Las Vegas. Follis’s girlfriend, Myra Fukuno, announced his death Sunday and invited friends and family to share their favorite memories of Follis for a forthcoming memorial. This afternoon, a representative of the Clark Co...
Independent Review: Edmonton Didn't Follow Its Own Policies Before Boxer Tim Hague Died In The Ring<em></em>
Ex-UFC heavyweight Tim Hague died this summer two days after getting knocked out by Adam Braidwood in a boxing match. Hague, who was 34 at the time of his death, had been working as a teacher and was supposedly retired from boxing when he took the fight against WBU heavyweight champion Braidwood on ...
Report: Florida State Football Players Were Suspects In Frat Turtle's Gruesome Death
Florida State kicker Ricky Aguayo and tight end Ryan Izzo appear to have been involved in some type of feud with a frat at the school, and somehow, this resulted in the death of a different frat’s pet turtle, named “Turntle.”...
Roy Halladay Killed in Plane Crash
Former major league pitcher Roy Halladay has died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico today; the Pasco sheriff’s department confirmed the death. He was the only person on board. Halladay was 40....
Missing Hikers Found Dead Of Apparent "Compassionate Murder-Suicide"
This July, Rachel Nguyen and Joseph Orbeso went missing in Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. The couple entered the park around 6:45 a.m. on July 27 and authorities realized something was amiss when they missed their check-out date the next day. Their car was found near the trailhead...
Indonesian Keeper Dies After Penalty Area Collision
Choirul Huda, the keeper for Indonesian soccer team Persela FC, collided brutally with teammate Ramon Rodrigues while rushing forward on a ball in the 18-yard box. The collision left both players hurt, but Huda took the collision to his upper body—Rodrigues’s knee seems to drive Huda’s arm violently...
Renowned Climber Hayden Kennedy Commits Suicide After Girlfriend, Fellow Pro Inge Perkins, Dies In Avalanche<em></em>
Last Saturday, Inge Perkins and Hayden Kennedy were six miles into a backcountry skiing hike up to the top of Imp Peak, a mountain in Montana’s Madison Range, when they triggered an avalanche. The slide was 300 feet long and 150 feet wide at a depth of one to two feet, and both Perkins and Kennedy w...
Y.A. Tittle, Football Great, Was Once Tackled By His Own Pants
Quarterback Y.A. Tittle now sounds like a grizzled relic of football, but there was a time when his name was just weird. Comic Phil Foster had a bit about it in the 1950s: “I used to love the tough guys in pro football. In my day we had real he-men: Bronko Nagurski, Alex Wojciechowicz, Mel Hein. Now...
Lance Russell, The Greatest Pro Wrestling Announcer Of All Time, Dies At 91
Lance Russell, the professional wrestling announcer best known as the voice of the sport in the territory surrounding Memphis, Tenn. for decades, as well as for his stint in WCW, died Tuesday morning at the age of 91. He had broken his hip in a fall on Friday shortly after his daughter, Valerie, die...
Bobby “The Brain” Heenan Dead At 73
Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, quite possibly the best manager and the best color commentator in American pro wrestling history, has died. The news was broken by Jim Ross. According to WWE, Heenan was 73....
Teen Professional Surfer Killed Riding Monster Waves Powered By Irma
Zander Venezia, a 16-year-old junior pro surfer from Barbados, was reportedly killed this week surfing the huge swell created by the approach of Hurricane Irma. From a Surfline report:...
Longtime Villanova Coach Rollie Massimino Dead At 82<em></em>
Rollie Massimino, the longtime Villanova basketball coach who led the Wildcats to an improbable national championship in 1985, has died. He was 82....