2024 Deaths (Pool)......

Viejo Dinosaur

Viejo Dinosaur

EOG Master
William Calley…Army officer age 80…

Was responsible for killing locals in a Viet Nam Village…

Known as the My Lai Massacre…1968
 
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Rockfish

EOG Addicted
My Lai Massacre. 500 murdered. 170 Children, of which 53 were infants. Remember though, we (USA) are the good guys.
 
mrbowling300

mrbowling300

EOG Dedicated

Dave Cokin, sports handicapper and radio host, dies at 71​

Dave Cokin, the longtime professional handicapper and Las Vegas sports talk radio host, died early Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 71.

Cokin announced his retirement last month on social media and said in an interview with the Review-Journal he was in home hospice care after being diagnosed in 2023 with the terminal illness. His death was announced on social media by several of his closest colleagues and friends.

A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Cokin was introduced to sports betting as a child and said his first bet was on the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League for $5.

“I lost,” he said.

Cokin was one of the first pick sellers, known as “touts,” and gained his national recognition starting in 1978 as part of Jim Feist’s “Proline” sports handicapping show that aired on the USA Network for 36 years. He split time between Rhode Island and Las Vegas during the early 1980s and moved to Nevada in 1987.

Known for his flat cap, Cokin was co-host of “The Stardust Line” on KDWN-AM. The show was the first that catered to sports bettors and blasted out to listeners in 11 western states, Canada and Mexico.

“He’s a legend in the sports betting business. A handicapper’s handicapper,” VSiN host Mitch Moss said in June.

Cokin co-hosted “The Pete Rose Show” on the Sports Fan Radio Network and “Cofield and Cokin,” aka “DC and the Sunshine Man,” on ESPN Radio. He also co-hosted “The Las Vegas Sportsline” sports betting show from 2011 to 2018 on ESPN Radio.

He was a two-timer winner of Nevada’s Sportscaster of the Year award.

“A lot of people know him as a handicapper, but he’s arguably the most well-known guy that we’ve ever had for Las Vegas sports talk radio,” former co-host Steve Cofield said last month. “He’s a Vegas legend. He lived the life of a Las Vegas gambler that I think a lot of people wanted to.

“Everyone knew Dave, and everyone knew his voice. He was must-listen radio. He really does epitomize what Las Vegas is and should be for sports talk radio.”

Cokin received an outpouring of support when he posted last month about his condition, and tributes came Tuesday from several members of the sports betting community.

“Maybe I’d feel differently if my life sucked. It sure didn’t,” Cokin said last month. “I’ve had a great time.”
 
winkyduck

winkyduck

TYVM Morgan William!!!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I have A LOT to say. I knew this day was coming. But now that it is here, struggling to come up with what to say.

OUCH!
 
B

bomzee

EOG Dedicated
Here is another one:
Everyone knows the great Hall of Famer Joe Morgan
.How about the other Joe Morgan who managed the Red Sox from mid 1988 to the end of 1991.
In fact the red Sox had a winning record every year he managed them .
The other Joe Morgan who is Caucasian is alive and well at age 93.
 
howid

howid

EOG Dedicated
Duane Thomas ... one strange dude, but man the guy was electric ...






Thomas was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the first round (23rd overall) of the 1970 NFL draft. As a rookie, even though he did not start until the fifth game of the season, he led the team in rushing, while finishing eighth in the newly merged 26-team league with 803 rushing yards (second in the National Football Conference behind NFL rushing champion Larry Brown of the rival Washington Redskins) on 151 carries (a league-leading 5.3 yards per carry) and 5 touchdowns. At the end of the season, already being compared to Jim Brown, he was named the NFL rookie of the year.[2] In playoff wins over Detroit and San Francisco, Thomas rushed for 135 and 143 yards, becoming the first rookie with two 100-yard rushing playoff games.[3]

During the offseason Thomas requested his three-year contract be rewritten. When Cowboys management refused to renegotiate, he called team president Tex Schramm “deceitful,” player personnel director Gil Brandt “a liar” and head coach Tom Landry “a plastic man...no man at all."[4] Following his refusal to report to training camp, Thomas was traded on July 31, 1971 to the New England Patriots with Halvor Hagen and Honor Jackson, in exchange for Carl Garrett and the Patriots' first choice in the 1972 NFL draft.[5] Within a week, because of problems with the Patriots and head coach John Mazur,[6] in an unprecedented move NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle voided part of the trade, sending Thomas and Garrett back to their original teams.[7] The Patriots kept Hagen and Jackson in exchange for a second (#35-Robert Newhouse) and third round (possibly 1972 #64-Mike Keller) draft choices in the 1972 NFL draft. Thomas returned to the Cowboys, but decided to keep silent all season long, refusing to speak to teammates, management, or the media.


77, RIP
 
howid

howid

EOG Dedicated
it gets better ...


In October 1971, Thomas scored the first touchdown in the new Texas Stadium playing against the Patriots.[8] That same season, Thomas led the league in rushing touchdowns (11) and total touchdowns (13). He also was named All-Pro and led the Cowboys with 95 rushing yards and a touchdown in Dallas' 24–3 win over the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI, the franchise’s first. When asked about playing in the “ultimate game” before the contest, he responded, "If it's the ultimate (game), how come they're playing it again next year?"[9] In a postgame interview following that Super Bowl, CBS television announcer Tom Brookshier noted Thomas' speed and asked him, rhetorically, "Are you that fast?" Thomas responded, "Evidently." According to Hunter S. Thompson, "All he did was take the ball and run every time they called his number—which came to be more and more often, and in the Super Bowl Thomas was the whole show."[10]

Thomas was reportedly voted as the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player by an overwhelming margin. Thomas, however, had boycotted the media throughout the season as well, and Larry Klein, editor of Sport, which presented the award, did not know how Thomas would act at a banquet in New York. With this in mind Klein announced quarterback Roger Staubach as the winner.[11]
 
Crazy Pete

Crazy Pete

EOG Addicted
Frank Selvy, first pick of the 1954 NBA draft.
Two time NBA All-Star, probably even more famous as a college player.
Scored 100 points in a game, still an NCAA record.
 
winkyduck

winkyduck

TYVM Morgan William!!!
mrbowling300 said:
Chi Chi Rodriguez dead at age 88

https://www.pgatour.com/article/new...s-passes-away-age-88-juan-antonio-puerto-rico
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Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny years ago I went to the Stan Humphries charity golf event in the San Diego area. Chi Chi was on a golf cart, signing for anyone and everyone. He had only one "demand" - kids had to be first in line to get stuffed signed. He signed for the kids and took pictures with them. Once he took care of them he signed for us. I have a golf ball signed by him.
 
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