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Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She was 42. Complete Story...
Bobby Frankel possessed a gift for coaxing top performances out of ornery, high-strung thoroughbreds, a gruff Hall of Fame trainer who was hard in his dealings with humans but gentle with the animals in his barn.
The father of former NBA star Jayson Williams has died.
A goalkeeper expected to play for Germany at the World Cup died after being hit by a train in what police suspect is a suicide. He was 32.
Al Cervi (SUR'-vee), a pro basketball star who coached the Syracuse Nationals to the 1955 NBA championship, has died in upstate New York at age 92.
Lou Filippo, a World Boxing Hall of Famer who judged 85 world champion fights and had small roles in the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 83.
Alan Ogg, a 7-foot-2 shotblocker who played for UAB and spent parts of three seasons in the NBA, died Sunday from complications from a staph infection, a university spokesman said. He was 42.
Forest Evashevski, the former Michigan football star coached Iowa to two Rose Bowl victories in the 1950s, has died. He was 91.
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about former Minnesota Vikings strong safety Orlando Thomas dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease. The team — the source of the incorrect information — and Thomas' agent now say Thomas has not died. A corrected story will follow.
New York Mets minor league pitcher Rafael Castro has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 18.
Bill "The Big Whistle" Chadwick, the first U.S.-born official in NHL history who was later a popular broadcaster for the New York Rangers, died Saturday. He was 94.
Jack Poole, the man who brought the 2010 Winter Olympics to Vancouver, has died. He was 76.
Cullen Bryant, who spent 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, was a running back on their 1980 Super Bowl team and fought the NFL's trading rules to remain in town, has died. He was 58.
Larry Jansen, the winning pitcher for the New York Giants in the 1951 playoff game decided by Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World," has died. He was 89.
Donna Mae Mims, the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship in 1963, has died. She was 82.
Leon Clarke, a two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the NFL who played for Southern California in the 1955 Rose Bowl, has died at 76.
A sheriff's official in Georgia says former major league pitcher Brian Powell has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 35.
Tony Fein, an Iraq war veteran and NFL rookie linebacker who played with the Baltimore Ravens during the preseason, has died of unexplained causes after collapsing at a friend's house in what his agent said appears to be "an accidental situation."
Lonny Frey, a three-time All-Star with the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and 1940s and a member of the club's Hall of Fame, has died in Idaho. He was 99.
Monte Clark, who coached the Detroit Lions for seven years and led them to the playoffs in 1982 and 1983, has died. He was 72.
Firing Bob Knight gave Myles Brand the pulpit to critique college athletics.
Darren Sutherland, a boxer who won a bronze medal for Ireland at the Beijing Olympics, was found hanged at his home Monday. Frank Maloney, his manager, discovered the body of the 27-year-old fighter and was so unnerved he was admitted to a hospital.
Larry Gelbart, the award-winning writer whose sly, sardonic wit helped create such hits as Broadway's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," the films "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!" and television's "M-A-S-H," is dead.
Former Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jesse Mahelona has died after being involved in a car accident. He was 26.
John M. Stephens, the 1988 Offensive Rookie of the Year for the New England Patriots, has been killed after his pickup truck ran off a highway and struck some trees, authorities said Wednesday.
Crystal Lee Sutton: Thunder in North Carolina"Mourn for the dead, but fight like hell for the living."
Mourners continue pay respects to Kennedy - Edward Kennedy, 1932-2009- msnbc.com21,000 mourners filed past Senator Kennedy's casket in Boston
I DID NOT KNOW Robert Novak personally, however in 2003 I attended a Goldwater Institute luncheon where Mr., Novak was the featured speaker , after reading Mr. Novak's columns for years I was excited that I would get to hear him in person.
Budd Schulberg, 'On the Waterfront' Writer, Dies at 95Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for "On the Waterfront" and created a classic American archetype of naked ambition, Sammy Glick, in his novel "What Makes Sammy Run?," died on Wednesday.
In memory of Svend AukenA strategic thinker, a sharp analyst and an excellent communicator, he was one of the first political leaders actively to promote the use of renewable and local energy resources in the fight against climate change.
Bela Kiraly Dies at 97; Led Revolt in HungaryGen. Bela K. Kiraly, the commander in chief of the revolutionary forces in the Hungarian uprising of 1956, who for more than half a century was considered a folk hero in Hungary, and who returned there in 1989 to serve in its post-Communist government, died Saturday in Budapest.
Lucy Gordon, Actress Who Appeared in 'Spider-Man 3,' Is Dead at 28 Lucy Gordon, a British actress who appeared in "Spider-Man 3," was found dead in her Paris apartment after apparently committing suicide, the French police said Thursday. She was 28.
David Herbert Donald, Writer on Lincoln, Dies at 88 David Herbert Donald, a leading American historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of the abolitionist statesman Charles Sumner and the novelist Thomas Wolfe, died Sunday in Boston.
POW activist Ted Sampley, a thorn to U.S. politicians Ted Sampley, a Vietnam War veteran and former member of the Green Berets who was a persistent activist for American prisoners of war and missing servicemen, and who later led smear campaigns against presidential candidates, died May 12 at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C., of …
Philip Stein, Muralist Who Adorned Village Vanguard Jazz Club, Dies at 90 On the back-wall mural at the Village Vanguard, the famous jazz club in Greenwich Village, a primordial man and woman burst from a kaleidoscopic background of brightly colored geometric forms.
Marilyn French, Novelist and Champion of Feminism, Dies at 79 Marilyn French, a writer and feminist activist whose debut novel, "The Women's Room," propelled her into a leading role in the modern feminist movement, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 79 and lived in Manhattan.
William A. Price, Journalist Who Defied Senate Panel During Communist Witch Hunts, Dies at 94 William A.
Painter Ernie Barnes Dies At 70Renowned painter Ernie Barnes died Monday at age 70. Barnes came to painting after a career in professional football, as an offensive lineman with the San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos. Teammates called him "Big Rembrandt."
John J. Marchi, Who Fought for Staten Island in Senate, Dies at 87 John J. Marchi, whose 50 years as a state senator from Staten Island made him the longest-serving lawmaker in New York and one of the longest-serving state legislators in the nation, died on Saturday while vacationing in Lucca, Italy, the home of his forebears. He was 87.
Jack Cardiff, Outstanding Filmmaker Who Worked With Hitchcock, Welles, Olivier, Monroe, Dies at 94 Jack Cardiff, an Oscar-winning British cinematographer and director who drew inspiration from Rembrandt's use of light and shadow to convey his visions and those of directors like Hitchcock, as well as the allure of actresses like Monroe, died on Wednesday at his home in Ely, E …
Stefan Brecht, Theater Historian, Is Dead at 84 Stefan Brecht, whose father was the playwright Bertolt Brecht and who added to the family's theatrical legacy by fastidiously chronicling the rise of avant-garde theater, died on April 13 in Manhattan. He was 84.
Doc Blanchard, Army's Mr. Inside, Is Dead at 84 Doc Blanchard, the Heisman Trophy winner and three-time all-American who teamed with Glenn Davis on the unbeaten Army teams of the mid-1940s in college football's most storied backfield pairing, died Sunday at his home in Bulverde, Tex. He was 84.
J. G. Ballard, Novelist, Is Dead at 78 J. G. Ballard, a writer of dystopian, literary fiction whose novels and short stories of a contemporary society in insidious thrall to technology, the media and relentless progress both expanded and defied the genre of science fiction, died on Sunday in London.
"Post Mortem" - Washington Post Obituary Blog Creates Death StarsSo you think you've seen newspaper blogs on just about everything? Politics, sports, you name it — the Salt Lake Tribune even has one about polygamy, quite the news topic out there in Big Love country. But try this one on for size: obituaries.
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The response to Jade's death reminded me how puzzled I was by Diana maniaWhat do those who mourn Jade Goody think they are mourning, asks Rod Liddle. Do they not have their own dead to bury, to grieve over, to remember?
Uriel Jones: One of the Funk Brothers and the last of the great Motown drummersUriel Jones was the last surviving member of the "Motown three", the triumvirate of drummers who put the backbeat to the hundreds of recordings coming out of Hitsville USA in Detroit in the Sixties and early Seventies.
Beverly Eckert, Leader of Families of 9/11 Victims, Dies in Buffalo Plane DisasterBeverly Eckert, who became a prominent spokeswoman for the families of 9/11 victims after her husband was killed in the attacks, died Thursday in the plane crash near Buffalo. She was 57 and lived in Stamford, Conn.
Robert Anderson, Playwright of 'Tea and Sympathy,' Dies at 91 Robert Anderson, a playwright whose intimate emotional dramas like "Tea and Sympathy" and "I Never Sang for My Father" attracted big names to the Broadway stage if not always substantial audiences to Broadway theaters, died Monday at home in Manhattan. He was 91.
Blossom Dearie, Cult Chanteuse, Dies at 84 Blossom Dearie, the jazz pixie with a little-girl voice and pageboy haircut who was a fixture in New York and London nightclubs for decades, died on Saturday at her apartment in Greenwich Village. She was 84.
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