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If you haven't caught up with the late Daddy Scum, a Georgia Tech fan who died before realizing his dream "to see Paul Johnson get fired," then you gotta see this obit. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]...

Padres Legend Jerry Coleman Was The Yogi Berra You Never KnewYou'd better go to other people's funerals, else they won't go to yours. Even if you don't know the source of the quip — that'd be Lawrence Peter Berra, known to the world as Yogi — it'll follow its speaker to the grave. Like Casey Stengel, another of baseball's never-ending fortune cookies, Berra h...

NFL's Ace Parker, The Hall Of Fame's Only Centenarian, DiesThis is the trouble with living too long. You die too late....

Lou Reed's Secret Chord

Aw hell. Lou Reed is dead. There's a live version of "Sweet Jane" from 2003 that I can't find online right now but is worth a listen today, in the man's honor. Reed is noodling around with the song, working through that famous riff, more of a shuffle now than the strut you remember from the album. J...

Bill Sharman Became A Legend For (And By) Thanking Everyone

Your mom might've told you to write thank-you notes once upon a time, and it seemed like such a chore, an exercise in obsequiousness. Typically, it was rote. Someone slides a sawbuck into a birthday card, you're condemned to scribble out a few lines of scripted treacle: Thank you so much for the mon...

William Harrison, Author Of Sports Dystopia <em>Rollerball</em>, Has Died

William Harrison, the author and screenwriter whose 1975 classic Rollerball semi-accurately foretold how the future of sport would suck, died Tuesday, just shy of his 80th birthday....

Police Arrest Confessed Killer Of Texas Fisherman Jimmy Johnson

Jimmy Johnson got shot dead by the good-for-nothing who was stealing from his bass boat in the parking lot of Motel 6 in Jackson, Mississippi....