R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers) 2022

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Andrew Duncan, 'Slap Shot' announcer Jim Carr, dies

Actor Andrew Duncan, better known to Johnstown hockey fans as fictional Charlestown Chiefs broadcaster Jim Carr, died according to Second City Theater, which announced the news on Monday.

His age and cause of death had not been announced as of Tuesday afternoon, but Duncan told The Tribune-Democrat he was 90 years old during a February 2017 interview about the 40th anniversary of “Slap Shot.”

Duncan played the role of Carr, the colorful Chiefs announcer who wore an outrageous hair piece.

The character Jim Carr appeared in the opening scene of the movie filmed in Johnstown during the spring of 1976 and released a year later.

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The Nottingham Panthers would like to send our condolences to the family and friends of Brent Pope who passed away this week at 49.

Pope, who had moved back to North America, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and our thoughts go out to his wife Fegie Ann and their two young children.

He first came to play in the UK in 1996 with Cardiff Devils and joined the Panthers for the 1999-2000 season, scoring 12 points in 42 Superleague games.

After a return to the East Coast Hockey League in North America and a stint with London Knights in the UK, Pope returned to the Panthers for the 2001-02 campaign and contributed 13 points in 48 Superleague matches.

He also iced for Solihull MK Kings, Hull Stingrays, London Racers, Basingstoke Bison, Sheffield Scimitars, Romford Racers and Slough Jets.

Pope played eight times for Great Britain at World Championship tournaments in 2003 and 2004.

He went on have management and coaching roles with Cardiff Devils, before starting a career in sports broadcasting.

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Russian MMA star Alexander Pisarev dies after eating 'poisoned watermelon at 33

[neilybob]

PROPER RIP TO THOSE WHO PASSED THIS WEEK.

[on_the_edge]

I need to go find the story on the poisoned watermelon.

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Ray Guy, a former punter for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League, passed away at the age of 72.

This is being reported by Phil Villapiano, Guy's former teammate. . Guy was a unanimous All-American selection in 1972 as a senior at the University of Southern Mississippi and was the first pure punter ever to be drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft when the Oakland Raiders selected him with the 23rd overall pick in 1973.Guy was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014. An eight-time NFL All-Pro, Guy is widely considered to be the greatest punter of all time.

With his induction to the Hall of Fame on August 2, 2014, he became only the second pure kicker (after Jan Stenerud) and the first pure punter so honored.

Guy was the first punter ever to be selected in the first round in the NFL Draft, when the Oakland Raiders selected him as the 23rd pick in the 1973 NFL Draft.

In his career as a punter, Guy played his entire career with the Raiders and was selected to seven Pro Bowl teams, including six in a row from 1973 to 1978. He was named as the punter on the NFL's 75th and 100th Anniversary teams. His trademark was kicking punts that stayed in the air for long periods of time. More often than not, by the time a punt returner was able to field one of Guy's punts, the Raiders' coverage unit had the field covered so well that returns were difficult, if not impossible. Although Guy rarely kicked for distance, his punts often left opposing offenses pinned deep at their own end of the field. Statistics for hang time were instituted in the NFL during his career, reportedly because of him. Pro Football Hall of Fame historian Joe Horrigan once said of Guy, "He's the first punter you can look at and say: 'He won games.'"

In Super Bowl XVIII, Guy punted seven times for 299 yards (42.7 average), with 244 net yards (34.8 average). Five of his punts pinned the Washington Redskins inside their own 20. Due in part to his effective punting, the Los Angeles Raiders easily won the game, 38–9.

During the early part of his career, he was the Raiders' emergency quarterback, replacing kicker–quarterback George Blanda in this position. He also occasionally did kickoffs for the Raiders because the aging Blanda no longer had great range.

After a 1977 game against the Houston Oilers, Oilers coach Bum Phillips accused Guy of using footballs illegally inflated with helium because he had "never seen anyone hang kickoffs like Guy did" and that the ball was "hanging up there for too long"; additionally, the Raiders had used a new ball for every punt, adding to his suspicions. Phillips said after the game that he would send the ball to Rice University for testing. Guy punted 3 times for 107 yards in the game.

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Nov 2, 2022 17:42:44 GMT -5 on_the_edge said:

I need to go find the story on the poisoned watermelon.

HERE YOU GO

link

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Guy was amazing. There's a reason he's one of the few kickers in the HOF. RIP.

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Nov 3, 2022 11:19:58 GMT -5 jimsteel said:

Nov 2, 2022 17:42:44 GMT -5 on_the_edge said:

I need to go find the story on the poisoned watermelon.

HERE YOU GO

link

Thanks. I found a few sources last night. It looks like it was standard food poisoning, ie cross contamination or something like that, as opposed to someone poisoning him. I was not sure. I mean, he WAS Russian.

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Final Pearl Harbor survivor in Nevada dies in his sleep, aged 99

Ed Hall, 99, died at 2:45am Wednesday at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center

His friend Greg Mannarino said the night before he died, Hall joked around with the nurses, told him 'I love you,' and was 'full of life'
Hall, the last known Pearl Harbor survivor in Nevada, died peacefully in his sleep
He was 18 when Japan launched the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
The attack killed 2,403 service members and civilians, launching World War II