An Emir, Running Nozzle, Coach and Singer, Heroic Corporal Fated
Dubai, Dubai, Doomed
Or
Come-a, Come-a Down, Dubai, Doomed, Down Down. Breathing Air is Hard to Do.
Sheik Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the emir of Dubai, has died at the age of 62. The emir had been instrumental in bringing together the eight small Gulf states to form the United Arab Emirates. A horse racing aficionado, the emir had been in Australia for one of the largest and most important horse auctions of the year. The real tragedy is that with the emir’s knowledge of horses and close ties to the Bush family, he would have been a front-runner to take over as permanent head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Katrina and the Waves
Barry Cowsill, a member of the popular 1960s singing family The Cowsills, was found dead on a wharf nearly four months after he disappeared when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. He was 51. The Cowsills made a minor splash with such wholesome pop crap as “The Rain, The Park and Other Things” and “Hair.” They could have been the Partridges, but they balked at calling Shirley Jones “Mommy,” thus inflicting Danny Bonaduce on an unwitting populace.
Rod Dead-eaux
Rod Dedeaux, one of the greatest coaches in baseball history, has died at the age of 91. In his 45 years at the University of Southern California, he won a record 1,331 games, posted 41 winning seasons, won 28 conference championships and 11 national championships. His teams won 5 straight titles from 1970-74 – no other school has won more than 2 in a row. Most notable was the ’73 title. Down 7-0 going into the bottom of the 9th against Dave Winfield (yes that Dave Winfield), who had allowed 1 infield single while striking out 15 over the first 8 innings. 9 batters and just one out later, the Trojans were champs once again. He also was the last man to coach Mark McGwire before he was chemically enhanced, both at USC and on the 1984 U.S. Olympic team. Four decades of pinging aluminum bats took their toll, as on the set of Field of Dreams, where he served as technical advisor, Dedeaux failed to notice that right-handed Ray Liotta had botched the minor technical detail that Shoeless Joe Jackson was a lefty.
You'll Never Find Another Life
(You knew Monty would crop up somewhere)
Or
Lou Rawls’ Parade of Corpses
(More kudos for Monty)
Or
His cancer was a sickness that a pill can’t cure
Or
Lou Rawls over and Dies
(Courtesy of the Derby Dead Pool, where I am now in an 18-way tie for 20th place)
Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced R&B singer who helped generations get laid, has died of brain and lung cancer at the age of 72. Best remembered for “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine,” Rawls started in the 1950s with Sam Cooke and later performed with Dick Clark at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959 opened for The Beatles at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. He also was the Jerry Lewis of the United Negro College Fund Telethon – without the cloying and objectification of children – helping to raise hundreds of millions raised for the United Negro College Fund.
Hugh Loss
On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, Jr., came upon U.S. solders firing on Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai. Thompson put his helicopter between the civilians and the U.S. forces, his crew drawing their weapons on their fellow soldiers to provide cover for Thompson as he confronted the leader of the ground forces and then coaxed civilians out of hiding for evacuation. For his courage, Thompson endured the scorn of and derision of his comrades and a congressman who proved why the House of Representatives is the lower branch of Congress by suggesting that the only man who deserved to be prosecuted in relation to My Lai was Thompson. Thompson’s role was not widely known for decades, but eventually he came to be regarded as an example for all soldiers to follow, appearing at West Point annually to lecture to cadets, and in 1998 Thompson and his crew received the prestigious Soldier’s Medal, the highest honor for bravery not related to conflict with the enemy. Thompson died last week of cancer at the age of 62.
Or
Come-a, Come-a Down, Dubai, Doomed, Down Down. Breathing Air is Hard to Do.
Sheik Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the emir of Dubai, has died at the age of 62. The emir had been instrumental in bringing together the eight small Gulf states to form the United Arab Emirates. A horse racing aficionado, the emir had been in Australia for one of the largest and most important horse auctions of the year. The real tragedy is that with the emir’s knowledge of horses and close ties to the Bush family, he would have been a front-runner to take over as permanent head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Katrina and the Waves
Barry Cowsill, a member of the popular 1960s singing family The Cowsills, was found dead on a wharf nearly four months after he disappeared when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. He was 51. The Cowsills made a minor splash with such wholesome pop crap as “The Rain, The Park and Other Things” and “Hair.” They could have been the Partridges, but they balked at calling Shirley Jones “Mommy,” thus inflicting Danny Bonaduce on an unwitting populace.
Rod Dead-eaux
Rod Dedeaux, one of the greatest coaches in baseball history, has died at the age of 91. In his 45 years at the University of Southern California, he won a record 1,331 games, posted 41 winning seasons, won 28 conference championships and 11 national championships. His teams won 5 straight titles from 1970-74 – no other school has won more than 2 in a row. Most notable was the ’73 title. Down 7-0 going into the bottom of the 9th against Dave Winfield (yes that Dave Winfield), who had allowed 1 infield single while striking out 15 over the first 8 innings. 9 batters and just one out later, the Trojans were champs once again. He also was the last man to coach Mark McGwire before he was chemically enhanced, both at USC and on the 1984 U.S. Olympic team. Four decades of pinging aluminum bats took their toll, as on the set of Field of Dreams, where he served as technical advisor, Dedeaux failed to notice that right-handed Ray Liotta had botched the minor technical detail that Shoeless Joe Jackson was a lefty.
You'll Never Find Another Life
(You knew Monty would crop up somewhere)
Or
Lou Rawls’ Parade of Corpses
(More kudos for Monty)
Or
His cancer was a sickness that a pill can’t cure
Or
Lou Rawls over and Dies
(Courtesy of the Derby Dead Pool, where I am now in an 18-way tie for 20th place)
Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced R&B singer who helped generations get laid, has died of brain and lung cancer at the age of 72. Best remembered for “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine,” Rawls started in the 1950s with Sam Cooke and later performed with Dick Clark at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959 opened for The Beatles at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. He also was the Jerry Lewis of the United Negro College Fund Telethon – without the cloying and objectification of children – helping to raise hundreds of millions raised for the United Negro College Fund.
Hugh Loss
On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson, Jr., came upon U.S. solders firing on Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai. Thompson put his helicopter between the civilians and the U.S. forces, his crew drawing their weapons on their fellow soldiers to provide cover for Thompson as he confronted the leader of the ground forces and then coaxed civilians out of hiding for evacuation. For his courage, Thompson endured the scorn of and derision of his comrades and a congressman who proved why the House of Representatives is the lower branch of Congress by suggesting that the only man who deserved to be prosecuted in relation to My Lai was Thompson. Thompson’s role was not widely known for decades, but eventually he came to be regarded as an example for all soldiers to follow, appearing at West Point annually to lecture to cadets, and in 1998 Thompson and his crew received the prestigious Soldier’s Medal, the highest honor for bravery not related to conflict with the enemy. Thompson died last week of cancer at the age of 62.
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