MrWonderful

I think this singer is much younger, and based on the clue packages on the show, Olivia just doesn't feel right to me.

American college basketball fans, and basketball fans in general, may very well know who Bob Knight is, one of the winningest college coaches ever. He returned to Assembly Hall today for the first time since getting unceremoniously (and deservedly) fired by Indiana in 2000, and he looks very frail. Could be one to watch. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28660306/emotional-bob-knight-ends-20-year-split-indiana

As someone who was a contestant on Sports Jeopardy, I can tell you that this is accurate. A few years ago, I filmed my episode during July, and it aired in November. Same producers, I believe.

Irving Berlin, the famous American composer, made it to 101.

He suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in 2006, and I believe it slowed him down pretty significantly. From what I gather, 66% of victims of a ruptured brain aneurysm experience permanent neurological damage, and I believe Gammons is in this category. I follow him on Twitter, being a sports fan, and he'll very often compose tweets with grammatical errors and the like. Since it's been 14 years, I agree that he could be one to watch, particularly if he starts covering baseball less, being less active on Twitter, etc. As far as I can tell, he's still actively reporting on information he gets. (For example, he was tweeting about the Mookie Betts trade in the past 48 hours.)

Oh, there's no question. He's on my list for 2020.

This is really smart thinking. Putting her on my 2021 watch list right now. Not Mrs. Costanza!

Going for a longshot with Woodward.

Just for some housekeeping, I wanted to put my 2020 Top 50 as my signature, and I saw here that I accidentally listed Fujimori twice, and omitted Pope Benedict, so I added him to the list on my sig. Carry on.

I'm off to a good start in my annual death pool draft contest with my buddies, with Chris Doleman and arap Moi dying. Those were my two most confident picks, but still, not bad. As a 4-person group, we've hit on 3 deaths total so far, and I've hit two of them. Terry Jones was the other hit.

Sounds like my #3 pick for the year is close to death.

Yeah, even making it 24 months was a statistical surprise. Had he made it to 2021 it would've been pretty shocking. I have a family member that had the same affliction and he died 16 months after the diagnosis. It's just a terrible disease.

NFL Hall Of Famer Chris Doleman has finally succumbed to brain cancer at the age of 58. Was my #1 play for the year. RIP. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001099609/article/hall-of-fame-de-chris-doleman-dies-at-age-of-58

I'm a die-hard Laker fan, and I'm completely devastated. What he meant to the Los Angeles area can't really be properly measured. I've been crying off and on since the news broke. This one really, really stings hard, and to know that his 13-year-old daughter also died is just so cruel. An unimaginable tragedy. It's now been confirmed that 9 people were on board and all have died. Come to think of it, he's a global icon, forget just L.A. Coverage of this is on every local channel, every sports channel, and every cable news channel. This is major news.

For 86, yeah, I'd say so. Not sure if she's acted in anything since, but her guest-starring turn on American Horror Story Apocalypse was fun to watch, too.

Where are these reports?!?! He would be my first hit on the team I just drafted!

Had my annual draft with my 3 buddies last night. Each guy has a 16-person roster. This is what I ended up with: Daniel arap Moi, Mikhail Gorbachev (Foreign) Larry King, Nichelle Nichols (Movies/TV) Little Richard, Eddie Van Halen (Music) Chris Doleman, Jerry Sloan (Sports) Howard Finkel, Superstar Billy Graham (Wrestling) Aaron Carter, Matthew Perry (50-and-under) Gale Sayers, Hugh Downs, John Lewis, Fay Vincent (Flex Spots) I lost last year despite hitting on by far the youngest death (Beth Chapman). May the force be with me!

Found this on YouTube. Not that I expect anyone to actually watch this in its entirety, but he certainly appeared to be mentally sharp in September of last year, just 4 months ago. Do you think he looks visibly worse in the pic from a few days ago, as compared to this appearance in September? I actually think he looks thinner back in September.

Former New Orleans Saints American football player Steve Gleason has been awarded the Congressional Gold medal by the U.S. Congress, just the 164th instance of this in Congress' 243-year history. I know there's a theory that someone's time could be drawing near if they get awards and certain recognition. I've seen this in Olivia Newton-John threads, as she was given Australia's highest civilian honor in August of last year and was just made a Dame, right? Any chance that Gleason is a strong pick for this year?

He attended an L.A. Lakers home game last Tuesday, which has become an extremely rare occurrence in recent years. (He very famously used to regularly attend Laker home games for many years.) I came across a photo in an article about this, and while he does look a bit more overweight than some may remember, he doesn't look close to sickly, and I would argue that he looks better than the vast majority of 82-year-olds. I don't think he's close to being Deathlist-y just yet.

As I've said, I think he's a very good pick. I think he's more likely to die than RBG this year. Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

Yeah, I've moved him way up on my Music list, now sandwiched between David Crosby and Loretta Lynn.

Oh yeah, of course he did. Just forgot to mark him down as DEAD in my notes. Oops.

Starting to regret that I didn't list George Shultz on my Top 50. Oldest living former member of a U.S. Cabinet, was famously Reagan's Secretary of State, and is 99.

Yeah, I had him down in my notes as well, and he's probably as good of a bet as many of the ones I listed. Also was thinking of Harley Race and Jake The Snake Roberts.