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So you allow people who are famous for being ill And otherwise void of celebrity?

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Some dead pools permit that. The one I run doesn't,

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She's dead, Lauren Hill, that is:

 

http://local12.com/m/news/features/top-stories/stories/Lauren-Hill-1995-2015-113450.shtml#.VSepovmsV8F

 

So now the wait for the qualifying obit...

Sad news. 19 teams, 6 jokers including DQSP, however, it's all confirming in my first year I should have gone for more teams and entered the inverse dead pool.

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Pretty interesting story this guy, left the original Globetrotters over a contract dispute to form the "Harlem Magicians", a rival sports entertainment team who had "Sugar" Ray Robinson in their team for some matches. Eventually made up with his former teammates and got a spot in the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon.

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RIO GRANDE, Ohio - A man who scored a record-setting 113 points in an NCAA basketball game in 1954 and put his small Ohio college on the sports map has died. Clarence "Bevo" Francis was 82.

William Roberts of Roberts Funeral Home says Francis died Wednesday at his southern Ohio home.

The Hammondsville native scored an NCAA single-game record of 113 points for Rio Grande College in a game against Michigan's Hillsdale College on Feb. 2, 1954.

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http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20150604/wire/150609856

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RIO GRANDE, Ohio - A man who scored a record-setting 113 points in an NCAA basketball game in 1954 and put his small Ohio college on the sports map has died. Clarence "Bevo" Francis was 82.

William Roberts of Roberts Funeral Home says Francis died Wednesday at his southern Ohio home.

The Hammondsville native scored an NCAA single-game record of 113 points for Rio Grande College in a game against Michigan's Hillsdale College on Feb. 2, 1954.

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http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20150604/wire/150609856

Hot hands indeed.

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Former NBA player Jackson Vroman, who led Iowa State to the 2004 NIT semifinals, died Monday from injuries sustained in a car accident. He was 34 years old. He was a second-round draft pick of the Bulls in 2004 but spent the 2004-05 season with the Suns and the following season with the New Orleans Hornets.

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http://mobile.sportingnews.com/article/4648595-former-nba-player-jackson-vroman-dies-in-car-crash-34-brett-vroman-father?utm_source=mweb&utm_medium=mweb

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Coach Flip Saunders is being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma. I love it when a cancer patient gets all up in cancer's face 'it's very treatable and curable'. You shouldn't have dared cancer, Flip.

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Lou Tsioropoulos, Basketball Champion, Dies at 84; Lou Tsioropoulos, who played on Kentucky’s 1951 N.C.A.A. basketball championship team and two Boston Celtics squads that went on to win N.B.A. titles, died on Saturday in Louisville, Ky. He was 84.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/sports/basketball/lou-tsioropoulos-basketball-champion-dies-at-84.html

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Former Iowa Hawkeye great Roy Marble has died at 48 of cancer. He was one helluva college player.
RIP
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Moses Malone

 

Hall Of Famer and 3 Time NBA MVP is dead at 60

 

 

Great player, great offensive rebounder.

RIP

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Coach Flip Sanders is being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma. I love it when a cancer patient gets all up in cancer's face 'it's very treatable and curable'. You shouldn't have dared cancer, Flip.

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Sir Creep warned you, but did you listen? Three weeks after announcing he has 'very treatable and curable' cancer, he is back in hospital after 'a setback'. I'd have to imagine the coach of an NBA team would obit but only y'all know that. One to NOW definitely keep an eye on!!!

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http://m.newspressnow.com/sports/ap/basketball/article_aac1c389-37bd-528a-a3dc-92b96a183ea0.html?mode=jqm

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Coach Flip Sanders is being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma. I love it when a cancer patient gets all up in cancer's face 'it's very treatable and curable'. You shouldn't have dared cancer, Flip.

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Sir Creep warned you, but did you listen? Three weeks after announcing he has 'very treatable and curable' cancer, he is back in hospital after 'a setback'. I'd have to imagine the coach of an NBA team would obit but only y'all know that. One to NOW definitely keep an eye on!!!

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http://m.newspressnow.com/sports/ap/basketball/article_aac1c389-37bd-528a-a3dc-92b96a183ea0.html?mode=jqm

 

 

Minneapolis Star Tribune journalist Jerry Zgoda suggests Saunders's recent silence means either a poor reaction to chemo or more cancer than originally thought, so indeed worth keeping an eye on.

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Coach Flip Sanders is being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma. I love it when a cancer patient gets all up in cancer's face 'it's very treatable and curable'. You shouldn't have dared cancer, Flip.

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Sir Creep warned you, but did you listen? Three weeks after announcing he has 'very treatable and curable' cancer, he is back in hospital after 'a setback'. I'd have to imagine the coach of an NBA team would obit but only y'all know that. One to NOW definitely keep an eye on!!!

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http://m.newspressnow.com/sports/ap/basketball/article_aac1c389-37bd-528a-a3dc-92b96a183ea0.html?mode=jqm

 

 

Minneapolis Star Tribune journalist Jerry Zgoda suggests Saunders's recent silence means either a poor reaction to chemo or more cancer than originally thought, so indeed worth keeping an eye on.

 

He could of at least mentioned me as a source for the entire storyline so far.

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Don't Walk....... RUN....to the cemetery!

Neal Walk, a former NBA big man who played for the Phoenix Suns, New Orleans (now Utah) Jazz and New York Knicks, died Sunday at a Phoenix hospital. He was 67.​

No offence to the deceased, but goodness (go look at the pic) he was playing the wrong sport to be a harry ape. He should have been the league's leading scorer--I for one wouldn't have leaned up against him or allowed it vice versa. He could have 'walked' to the basket untouched. Yes, you saw what I did there.

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Harry Gallatin, the Hall of Fame basketball player who was a seven-time All-Star forward for the New York Knicks in the 1950s, died Wednesday. He was 88.

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http://m.heraldstandard.com/sports_ap/basketball/hall-of-fame-basketball-player-harry-gallatin-dies/article_d35db5ff-eddd-5c7f-8610-6eb3e0ae4914.html?mode=jqm

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Dave Meyers, the star forward who led UCLA to the 1975 NCAA basketball championship as the team’s lone senior in coach John Wooden’s final season and later played for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, died. He was 62.

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https://www.indianagazette.com/news/national-sports/former-uclastar-dies-at-62,50011363/

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