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So that means the oldest lineal champion alive is now the American Freddie Little (85), who was lineal junior middleweight champ between March 17, 1969 (when he unified the titles) and July 9, 1970 (when he lost to the Italian Carmelo Bossi). Not seeing much recent news on him since he was inducted into the Nevada Boxing HoF in 2016.

Could it have been a Douglas Adams-style "doctors tell him to lose some weight or he'll have a heart attack, goes too hard on the treadmill and triggers a heart attack regardless"?

Steve Bing, Shane Warne: are we seeing the curse of rawdogging Liz Hurley?

wtf Shane Warne dead

And there's the first... what's the opposite of a landmine? Mario Kart speed boost? Rod Marsh was one of the greatest wicket keepers of all-time, particularly famed for his partnership with Dennis Lillee and dead otter moustache. He came to the attention of DL Cup selectors thanks to a heart attack at the end of February, with further deteriorations in his condition only becoming apparent after the deadline fell. Regardless, plenty of teams were expecting Iron Hands to be smelted - Annami most notably getting a captain pick and Banana being first to score two hits this round. DeathByArsenic 0 vs Captain Hemlock 0 BabyBlue 0 vs Predictor 0 Banana 7 vs Masterffull 0 HDS 0 vs The Old Crem 0 YorkshireBanker 0 vs An Fear Baeg 3 maryportfuncity 0 vs Famous6Eva 0 Pop_Zeus vs Perhaps 3 gcreptile 4 vs SpadeCooley 3 MariNisia 0 vs msc 3 Book 3 vs Sir Cunto 3 Grim Up North 3 vs Salmon Mousse 0 Bibliogryphon 0 vs Annami 6 CaptainChorizo 0 vs TQR 3 Sideik 3 vs alt obits guy 4 deadsox 0 vs Joey Russ 3 DevonDeathTrip 3 vs CalebH 0

Looks like General Andrei Sukhovetskiy is the first major casualty suffered by Russian forces during the invasion.

SiMan says: get the fuck up. Silas Alexander might sound like the name of a Crewe Alexander centre-back, but he was a presence on Atlanta's R&B/hip-hop radio stations for more than two decades, even co-hosting a syndicated show with "oh yeah him" early 90s rapper Chubb Rock. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last September, he immediately started a podcast with his similarly stricken DJ cousin MixMasterMitch called "Cousins with Cancer." Mitch died last December, and March sees a family reunion that puts gcreptile 4-0 up against some scrub. Banana 4 - Masterffull 0 sideik 0 - alt obits guy 4 gcreptile 4 - SpadeCooley 0

Last round saw us dip into the well of opportunities Spanish newspapers offered, but this time out we're moving to France and Le Monde's obituary for Jean-Pierre Pernaut. Pernaut served as host of TF1's lunchtime news bulletin for 32 years and was arguably the most famous newsreader in France during the 1990s thanks to his love of "and finally..." style regional interest stories. Newsflash for alt obits guy: he grabs a unique hit here and becomes the second player off the mark. Banana 4 - Masterffull 0 sideik 0 - alt obits guy 4

In the forum, the Deathlist forum, De Leone sleeps tonight... It wouldn't be the DL Cup without a college football guy carking it, and that role is filled here by George DeLeone, who apparently "brought about a golden age of Syracuse football with his freeze option". I am not going to google what that means, but that's what he did. Banana starts off the round with four points, and Masterffull already finds themselves in a tight fit. Banana 4 - Masterffull 0

This tweet seems to imply it was the 1st he died on: I think I'm going to allow it and redact points later on if it turns out he did die in February... I'll wait a few hours before doing anything official just to be sure.

Well-spotted, my brief research for the name alighted upon the other mononymous Indian actor called Rajesh, who is still alive. Old Crem, can you please clarify which Rajesh you meant, as I need to know whether or not to go through with a substitution.

Guess who's just turned up in Ukraine:

FM players will be fully familiar with that "shit I need a third choice goalkeeper" moment pre-season where you just go to your scout reports and find the first free transfer stopper available. Drol provides a similar function for 11th players in cup teams.

Also, nice that we can now all talk openly about CW McCall being in hospice.

I did make an assumption that everyone who picked "Rodney Marsh" this round meant the currently comatose cricketer, and not the pisshead former football pundit. Do let me know if that's wrong.

Nigel Taylor comes down to whether you took his "I don't expect to be here in April" as he doesn't expect to be at a council meeting in April, or he doesn't expect to be on planet Earth.

Here's my walkon music for this round of the cup:

And here with the draw for Round 3 of the tournament are Mark Lanegan and Olive from On The Buses: Winner of Bibliogryphon vs Annami v winner of CaptainChorizo vs TQR Winner of maryportfuncity vs Famous6Eva v winner of BabyBlue vs Predictor Winner of Grim Up North vs Salmon Mousse v winner of Sideik vs alt obits guy Winner of YorkshireBanker vs An Fear Baeg v winner of  DevonDeathTrip vs CalebH Winner of deadsox vs Joey Russ v winner of  Pop_Zeus vs Perhaps Winner of DeathByArsenic vs Captain Hemlock v winner of HDS vs The Old Crem Winner of gcreptile vs SpadeCooley v winner of  MariNisia vs msc Winner of Banana vs Masterffull v winner of Book vs Sir Cunto

I make that 154 possible cadavers in play for this round... please do quickly double check your own team to make sure I've not gashed anything up (I will almost certainly have done) Agnes Keleti POP* Alan Arkin MAS Alexandre Do Nascimento BBL Alma Rosa Aguirre DBA Amy Pieters SAL, SIR, PER Ankhal SAL, BOO, ANN, JRU Arnold Yarrow POP Arthur Bell YOR Asif Ali Zardari TOC Baxter Black SPA Bernadette Mayer DDT Bill Steel MAR Bob Barker BIB, MFC, PRE, ANN Bobby Caldwell CCH Bobby Rush POP Boris Pahor BIB, POP Brian Morris TQR C.W. McCall GUN*, JRU, CCH, BAN*, ANN, PER*, SOX*, TOC, DDT, SPA, SAL*, BOO, TQR*, SID, HDS*, GCR Caren Marsh-Doll POP Cezary Kucharski SAL Charlie Bird PRE Cilly Dartell BBL Claire Maurier DBA Clare Marx TOC, BBL, MFC Clive Palmer AOG, TOC Colette Maze POP, SOX Dagny Carlsson YOR Dave Gaunce GCR David Graham CAL Deborah James PRE Dick Mctaggart YOR Dick Vitale MAR Diego Elizondo BAN, SIR Don O'Leary SIR Earl of Elgin CAL Elizabeth Kelly CAL Erni Mangold DBA Ethel Caterham MFC* Francoise Hardy MAS Frank Field SPA, BIB, MFC, POP, CAP*, PRE*, YOR*, AOG, MSC, BOO, TOC, TQR, BAN, GUN, GCR, ANN, PER, DDT, SID, SOX, HDS, MAS, AFB Frank Howell BBL Frank Williams POP George Alagiah PRE George Deleone BAN George Perez SPA, CAP, F6E*, PRE, YOR, AOG, SAL, TOC, CCH*, CAL, BAN, GUN, BBL*, GCR*, SIR, JRU, PER, DDT, SID*, SOX, AFB*, HDS, BOO*, TQR, MAR, ANN Giuseppe Furino MSC Glynis Johns BIB Greg Mears GUN, DDT Guido Gorgatti BBL Heather McLean DDT Henry Kissinger POP Howard "Pepper" Martin AOG* Ingrid Arvidsson F6E Ion Cernea CAL Irene Papas BBL, DDT Jack Jabbour SIR Jack Thomas SOX James C. Floyd SOX James D. Watson DBA James Earl Jones F6E James Jones MSC Jan Englert F6E Jayanta Mahapatra SPA, PER, AFB, MSC Jean Marsh PRE Jean-louis Trintignant ANN, DBA Jean-Pierre Pernaut AOG Jeff Burkett AFB Jerry Lee Lewis CAP Jerzy Hoffman F6E Jimmy Carter MAS John Toshack BAN, SPA, AOG, SAL, MSC, BOO, TOC*, CCH, GUN, MAR*, GCR, SIR, JRU, PER, SID, AFB Jorge Spedaletti YOR, MFC, AOG, SAL, MSC, TQR, GUN, BBL, PER, HDS, AFB, JRU Jose Mujica CAL Josef Abrhám F6E Joyce Reynolds MFC Juan Vincente Perez Mora SOX Julia Reichert TQR, CCH, JRU, SID Kane Tanaka MFC, TOC, MAR, ANN, SOX, BIB Kat Bjelland BIB Katherine, Duchess of Kent BIB Kris Kristofferson CAL Lam Morrison ANN Larry Holley CAL Leonel Sanchez SAL, BAN, GCR, SID, HDS, AFB, BOO, CCH, MAR, ANN, JRU, PER Les Jenkins DDT Leslie Phillips BIB Lexi Reed CAP Linda Nolan BIB Loretta Lynn MAS Luang Pho Yai BOO, GCR, SID Lucile Randon SOX, AFB Luis Echeverria CCH Ma Shitu TQR Madeline Cain SAL, GUN, JRU, HDS, AFB Marga Minco CAL Margaret Stuart Barry BIB, YOR Marita Camacho Quirós DBA Mark Girouard MAS* Marnie Schulenburg AOG Maurice Norman SPA, MSC Melvin Hulse SID Michel Bouquet DBA Mihai Sora CAL* Miroslav Blazevic F6E Mohamed Al-fayed POP Nasser Abu Hmeid SIR, SOX Natty Wailer SID Nichelle Nichols CAP, MAS Nigel Starmer-Smith MAR Nigel Taylor SPA* Nirmala Uppuganti GUN Oleksander Lokota SIR Olivia Newton John MAS Pau Riba BBL Pele CAP, SAL, TOC, BAN, MAR, HDS Philippe De Gaulle PRE, DBA Polina Strelets CAP Princess Mikasa DBA Radovan Radaković YOR Rajesh TOC Rod Marsh BOO, SPA, MSC, TQR, BAN, GUN, SIR, JRU, PER, DDT, AFB, ANN*, SID Ronald R. Van Stockum POP Rosslyn Carter MAS Sandro Munari MAR Shahabuddin Ahmed GCR Shalom Cohen PER Shannon Doherty MAS Sienna Grace BBL Silas Alexander GCR Stephen Lewis F6E Susie Steiner MFC, CAP, F6E, PRE, MSC, BOO, CCH, GUN, ANN, PER, SOX, HDS Tevin Obiga SAL Tim Aldridge SIR* Tin Oo DBA, GCR Tom Parker AOG Traci Braxton SPA V.S. Achuthanandan TQR, CCH Vanessa Redgrave MAS Vibhu Raghave AOG Vic Elford MFC, PRE, MSC*, TQR, CCH, MAR, JRU, SID Vicky Phelan SPA, MFC, F6E, PRE, YOR, DBA*, MSC, BOO, TOC, TQR, CCH, BAN, GUN, GCR, JRU, HDS, AFB Violeta Chamorro CAP, BBL Vitali Klitschko MFC Vito Perillo CAP Vladimir "Zev" Zelenko DDT* Vladimir Putin HDS Vladimir Zhirinovsky CAP, AOG, MAR Volodymyr Zelenskyy SIR, HDS, BOO, DDT Wayne Hart BAN Wendy Playfair YOR William Russell BIB Willie Mays YOR Wladimir Klitschko F6E Zdenka Dietchova CAL

Wormfarmer fails to submit a team on time, so An Fear Baeg gets a chance for a Cinderella run. This is how the Round 2 ties line up: DeathByArsenic (DBA) Alma Rosa Aguirre, Claire Maurier, Erni Mangold, James D. Watson, Jean Louis-Trintignant, Marita Camacho Quirós, Michel Bouquet, Philippe de Gaulle, Princess Mikasa, Tin Oo, Vicky Phelan (c) vs Captain Hemlock (CAP) Frank Field (c), Violeta Chamorro, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nichelle Nichols, Pele, George Perez, Vito Perillo, Lexi Reed, Susie Steiner, Polina Strelets, Vladimir Zhirinovsky BabyBlue (BBL) Alexandre do Nascimento, Cilly Dartell, Clare Marx, Frank Howell, George Perez (c), Guido Gorgatti, Irene Papas, Jorge Spedaletti, Pau Riba, Sienna Grace, Violeta Chamorro vs Predictor (PRE) George Alagiah, Bob Barker, Charlie Bird, Vic Elford, Frank Field (c), Philippe de Gaulle, Deborah James, Jean Marsh, George Perez, Vicky Phelan, Susie Steiner Banana (BAN) C. W. McCall (c), George DeLeone, Diego Elizondo, Frank Field, Wayne Hart, Pele, Rod Marsh, George Perez, Vicky Phelan, Leonel Sanchez, John Toschack vs Masterffull (MAS) Francoise Hardy, Jimmy Carter, rosslyn carter, Mark girouard (c), Olivia newton john, Alan arkin, Loretta lynn, Frank field, Vanessa redgrave, Nichelle nichols, Shannon doherty HDS (HDS) C.W. McCall (c), Frank Field, George Peréz, Pelé, Jorge Spedaletti, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Madeline Cain, Leonel Sanchez vs  The Old Crem (TOC) John Toshack (c), George Perez, Pele, Clive Palmer, C.W McCall, Vicky Phelan, Asif Ali Zardari, Frank Field, Rajesh, Clare Marx, Kane Tanaka YorkshireBanker (YOR) Arthur Bell, Dagny Carlsson, Dick McTaggart, George Perez, Frank Field (c), Jorge Spedaletti, Margaret Stuart Barry, Radovan Radaković, Vicky Phelan, Wendy Playfair, Willie Mays vs An Fear Baeg (AFB) Frank Field, George Perez (c), Vicky Phelan, John Toshack, Rod Marsh, Leonel Sanchez, Jorge Spedaletti, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jeff Burkett, Madeline Cain, Lucille Randon maryportfuncity (MFC) Ethel Caterham , Vicky Phelan, Vitali Klitschko, Bob Barker, Frank Field, Susie Steiner, Dame Clare Marx, Jorge Spedaletti, Kane Tanaka, Vic Elford, Joyce Reynolds vs Famous6Eva (F6E) George Perez (c), Ingrid Arvidsson, James Earl Jones, Jan Englert, Josef Abrhám, Jerzy Hoffman, Miroslav "Ciro" Blazevic, Stephen Lewis, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Wladimir Klitschko Pop_Zeus (POP) Agnes Keleti (c), Arnold Yarrow, Bobby Rush, Boris Pahor, Caren Marsh-Doll, Colette Maze, Frank Field, Frank Williams, Henry Kissinger, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Ronald R. Van Stockum vs Perhaps (PER) Jayanta Mahapatra, George Perez, Frank Field, John Toshack, Amy Pieters, Susie Steiner, Rod Marsh, C. W. McCall (c), Leonel Sánchez, Jorge Spedaletti, Shalom Cohen gcreptile (GCR) George Perez (c), John Toshack, Silas Alexander, Frank Field, CW McCall, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Dave Gaunce, Vicky Phelan, Tin Oo, Leonel Sanchez, Luang Pho Yai vs SpadeCooley (SPA) Nigel Taylor (c), George Perez, Frank Field, C.W. McCall, Vicky Phelan, Maurice Norman, Jayanta Mahapatra, Baxter Black, Rod Marsh, John Toshack, Traci Braxton MariNisia (MAR) Bill Steel, Dick Vitale, George Pérez, John Toshack (c), Kane Tanaka, Leonel Sánchez, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Pelé, Sandro Munari, Vic Elford, Vladímir Vólfovich Zhirinovski vs msc (MSC) Vic Elford (c), John Toshack, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Rod Marsh, Jorge Spedaletti, Giuseppe Furino, Jayanta Mahaptra, Frank Field, James Jones, Maurice Norman Book (BOO) George Pérez (c), Ankhal, C.W. McCall, Frank Field, John Toshack, Leonel Sánchez, Luang Pho Yai,  Rod Marsh, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Volodymyr Zelenskyy vs Sir Cunto (SIR) Tim Aldridge (c), Diego Elizondo, Nasser Abu Hmeid, Jack Jabbour, Oleksander Lokota, Rod Marsh, Don O'Leary, George Perez, Amy Pieters, John Toshack, Volodymyr Zelensky Grim Up North (GUN) Vicky Phelan, Susie Steiner, Frank Field, Jorge Spedaletti, Nirmala Uppuganti, Rod Marsh, John Toshack, George Perez, C W McCall (c), Greg Mears, Madeline Cain vs Salmon Mousse (SAL) C.W. McCall (c), George Perez, John Toshack, Leonel Sanchez, Cezary Kucharski, Jorge Spedaletti, Madeline Cain, Ankhal, Amy Pieters, Pele, Tevin Obiga Bibliogryphon (BBL) Leslie Phillips (c), Kane Taneka, Kat Bjelland, William Russell, Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Glynis Johns, Margaret Stuart Barry, Katherine, Duchess of Kent, Frank Field, Boris Pahor vs Annami (ANN) Leonel Sánchez, Rodney Marsh (c), Frank Field, George Pérez, C. W. McCall, Susie Steiner, Lam Morrison, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kane Tanaka, Ankhal, Bob Barker CaptainChorizo (CCH) Bobby Caldwell, C. W. McCall, George Perez (c), Julia Reichert, Leonel Sánchez, Luis Echeverria, John Toshack, Susie Steiner, Vic Elford, Vicky Phelan, VS Achuthanandan vs TQR (TQR) C.W. McCall (c), Frank Field, Brian Morris, Rod Marsh, Vic Elford, Julia Reichert, George Pérez, Vicky Phelan, Jorge Spedaletti, Ma Shitu, V.S. Achuthanandan Sideik (SID) George Perez (c), C.W. McCall, Luang Pho Yai, Rodney Marsh, Frank Field, Vic Elford, Melvin Hulse, Natty Wailer, Leonel Sanchez, Julia Reichert, John Toshack vs alt obits guy (AOG) Clive Palmer, Frank Field, George Perez, Howard 'Pepper' Martin (C), Jean-Pierre Pernaut, John Toshack, Jorge Spedaletti, Marnie Schulenburg, Tom Parker, Vibhu Raghave, Vladimir Zhirinovsky deadsox (SOX) C. W. McCall (c), Susie Steiner, Kane Tanaka, Lucile Randon, Juan Vincente Perez Mora, George Perez, Frank Field, Nasser Abu Hmeid, Jack Thomas, James C. Floyd, Colette Maze vs Joey Russ (JRU) C W McCall (c), George Perez, Madeline Cain, John Toshack, Leonel Sánchez, Vicky Phelan, Rod Marsh, Julia Reichert, Jorge Spedalitti, Ankhal, Vic Elford DevonDeathTrip (DDT) Frank Field, Rod Marsh, Heather McLean, George Perez, Greg Mears, Les Jenkins, C.W McCall, Irene Papas, Bernadette Mayer, Vladimir 'Zev' Zelenko (c), Volodymyr Zelenskyy vs CalebH (CAL) David Graham, Earl Of Elgin, Elizabeth Kelly, George Perez, Ion Cernea, Jose Mujica, Kris Kristofferson, Larry Holley, Marga Minco, Mihai Sora (c), Zdenka Dietchova

Ok, all data entered in but don’t expect anything to be posted until tomorrow morning. Some of us need their eight hours.

I have teams from the second and third best runners up of R2 (ThereWillBeDeaths7 and wannamaker) so, even if An Fear Baeg doesn't log on tonight and the two current holdouts don't submit, we will have no byes in the next round.

Just deleted some messages...

Character actor Ned Eisenberg dead at 65. Take your pick for which role you think gets him in this thread: a regular in Law and Order, he was one of the detectives in the recent Mare of Easttown and Shy's manager Lou in The Marvellous Ms Maisel, but for me he'll always be Ariel, the Orthodox Jew Paulie and Silvio can't intimidate until Tony comes up with the idea of castration:

Two players still to submit a team for Round 2: HDS Wormfarmer