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Post by jimsteel on Mar 1, 2023 0:37:37 GMT -5
Legendary Ellwood City and Beaver Area head football coach, Beaver County and WPIAL Hall of Famer Pat Tarquinio died Monday at the age of 89. Tarquinio was a 1951 graduate of Stowe High School in McKees Rocks who went on to play football at Juniata College before embarking on a Hall of Fame coaching career that spanned more than 40 years. Getting his start in Ellwood City under former Juanita graduate assistant Chuck Knox, who went on to coach in the NFL with the Los Angeles Rams, Tarquinio eventually became the Ellwood City head coach, a role he served in from 1959-66 before becoming the head coach at Beaver Area.
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Post by TTX on Mar 1, 2023 6:15:09 GMT -5
Jean Faut sounded like an interesting woman. RIP.
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Post by jimsteel on Mar 1, 2023 12:50:32 GMT -5
Former Major League Baseball outfielder Dave Nicholson has died, according to reports. He was 83. Nicholson began his Major League career with the Baltimore Orioles and played for them during the 1960 and 1962 seasons. He also had stints with the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros before wrapping up his career in 1967 with the Atlanta Braves.
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Post by jimsteel on Mar 2, 2023 15:50:40 GMT -5
Jerry Richardson, a former owner and player in the NFL, passed away at the age of 86. Richardson was born in Spring Hope, North Carolina. After completing high school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he entered Wofford College, located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Richardson was an Associated Press Little All-America selection in 1957 and '58. He still holds Wofford's single-game record of 241 receiving yards vs. Newberry in 1956 and is the record holder for touchdown receptions in a season (9 in 1958) and in a career (21). As a senior at Wofford, he scored 72 points on nine touchdowns, 12 extra points and two field goals. Richardson calls being elected team captain in 1958 his greatest honor. In 1983, he was chosen to Wofford's All-Time Football team as a receiver. Richardson was active in numerous groups on the Wofford campus; he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity, President of the Inter-Fraternity Council, and member of the SCA Cabinet. Honors he received while at Wofford included Distinguished Military Student, Scabbard, Blade Military Fraternity, Sigma Delta Psi, Blue Key National Honorary Fraternity, and recognition in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges. Drafted in the 13th round by the defending world champion Baltimore Colts, Richardson played two seasons in the NFL, earning Colt Rookie of the Year honors in 1959. He caught a touchdown pass in the 1959 NFL Championship Game from quarterback Johnny Unitas. He was traded from the Colts to the New York Giants for John Guzik on August 3, 1961. He never played in another NFL game. On October 26, 1993, Richardson became the first former NFL player since George Halas to become an owner when the Carolina Panthers were unanimously awarded the NFL's 29th franchise. The Panthers would represent and benefit not only Charlotte and North Carolina, but rather the entire region. Richardson was regarded as one of the most powerful NFL owners, alongside Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, respectively. Richardson played a role locking out NFL players in 2011 and in negotiating a new players agreement. For the most part, Richardson stayed in the background and rarely interfered in the Panthers' day-to-day operations. For instance, when he fired George Seifert after the 2001 season (in which the Panthers went 1-15), he went nine years before holding another press conference at which he took questions from the media—when he announced that John Fox's contract would not be renewed. One of the few times in which he directly intervened in football matters came in the 2014–15 offseason, when he refused to re-sign player Greg Hardy in the wake of domestic violence events. Richardson said he made the decision not to do so because "we're doing the right thing." It had long been presumed that Richardson intended to have his sons, Mark and Jon, inherit the team. However, they both abruptly resigned before the 2009 season, reportedly at the behest of Richardson and Jon, who died of cancer in 2013. On January 16, 2013, WBTV in Charlotte reported that Richardson wanted the team sold after he died, but presumably only to someone who would keep the team and jobs in Charlotte. After the death of Buffalo Bills founder Ralph Wilson in 2014, Richardson was one of only two NFL owners (Houston Texans owner Robert C. McNair being the other) to have owned his respective team for its entire history. Since both Richardson's sale of the Panthers and McNair's death in 2018, there remain no NFL owners who have owned teams for their entire history. In the 2015 season, Richardson's Panthers reached Super Bowl 50 on February 7, 2016, after losing only one game all season. The Panthers fell to the Denver Broncos by a score of 24–10. At the company's expense, the Panthers transported and housed a majority of their employees at the Super Bowl. As Panthers majority owner, Richardson was said to be a "champion of diversity," with African-American Cam Newton as starting quarterback, Hispanic Ron Rivera as head coach, and former Carolina Topcats cheerleader Tina Becker as chief operating officer.
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Post by jimsteel on Mar 3, 2023 18:28:20 GMT -5
Bob Perryman, a former NFL running back, passed away at the age of 58. He played college football as a fullback for the University of Michigan from 1983 to 1986 and played professional football, principally as a fullback, in the National Football League for six seasons for the New England Patriots (1987-1990) and the Denver Broncos (1991-1992). He gained 1,247 rushing yards at Michigan and 1,338 rushing yards in the NFL. Perryman was selected by the New England Patriots in the third round (79th overall pick) of the 1987 NFL Draft. He played four years for the Patriots from 1987 to 1990, appearing in 49 games, including 38 games as a starter. He gained 1,294 rushing yards and scored nine touchdowns on 369 carries (3.5 yards per carry) for the Patriots. He also caught 64 passes for 430 yards while playing for the Patriots. After being released by the Patriots, Perryman signed with the Dallas Cowboys during the 1990 season but did not appear in any games. Perryman concluded his NFL career with the Denver Broncos during the 1991 and 1992 NFL seasons. He appeared in 19 games for the Broncos (eight as a starter.
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Post by on_the_edge on Mar 3, 2023 18:37:27 GMT -5
I remember him playing at Michigan and a bit of his professional career. RIP Perryman.
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Post by jimsteel on Mar 5, 2023 13:11:39 GMT -5
Dave Wills, who, along with his broadcast partner Andy Freed, served as the radio voice of the Tampa Bay Rays from 2005 passed away at the age of 58. No cause of death has been released to the public. Wills and Freed alternated play by play and color commentator duties during Rays game broadcasts, usually trading roles every three innings. Wills signed several contract extensions with the Tampa Bay Rays Radio Network and signed another "multi-year" deal after the 2017 season. Wills was born and raised in the Chicago area and grew up as a "die-hard" White Sox fan. He played baseball and basketball at Oak Lawn Community High School, where he also wrote for the school newspaper. He attended Elmhurst College, where he pitched on the baseball team and worked for the school's newspaper until graduating with degrees in speech communications and urban studies in 1988. While in college, he also worked for SportsPhone, a call-in service that provided one minute of sports scores and updates for the Chicago area. After graduating, Wills served as the pitching coach/recruiting coordinator for the Elmhurst College baseball team in 1989 and as the interim head baseball coach at the University of Chicago in 1990. Wills began his on-air broadcasting career covering sports for radio stations WMAQ and WMVP in the Chicago media market. His first play-by-play position was with the Class-A Kane County Cougars, for whom he was the radio voice from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 to 2004, Wills served as a pre-game and post-game analyst and back-up for John Rooney on Chicago White Sox radio broadcasts. During the same period, he also co-hosted a daily sports talk radio show, hosted a local cable television sports show, hosted pre- and post-game radio broadcasts for Notre Dame football and basketball, and did radio play-by-play for University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) basketball. Wills and Andy Freed were hired as the new broadcast team by the Rays before the 2005 season, replacing the club's original radio team of Paul Olden and Charlie Slowes.
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Post by jimsteel on Mar 6, 2023 0:59:29 GMT -5
‘Loud and loyal’ Seahawks superfan ‘Mama Blue’ passes away at 92 Patti Hammond, also known as Mama Blue, the 2020 Seahawks Fan of the Year, died on Saturday evening, according to her official Facebook page.
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Post by jimsteel on Mar 6, 2023 15:30:03 GMT -5
Moustapha Sylla, an Ivorian defender for RC Abidjan, passed away on Sunday after collapsing on the field during a league game against SOL FC He was 21
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Post by jimsteel on Mar 7, 2023 14:18:26 GMT -5
Dan McGinn, a former pitcher in MLB, passed away at the age of 79. The St. Louis Cardinals picked him in the first ever amateur draft, but Dan chose to stay in school, getting his bachelor's degree in communication arts. In 1966, the Cincinnati Reds took him in the first round (10th overall pick), and he reported to Knoxville for the Double-A Southern League. After struggling his first two years as a starting pitcher in the minors, McGinn found his stride as a reliever in 1968. “Sparky Anderson [was] my manager and at the beginning of the year he said to me that Cincinnati is loaded with left-handed starters, but they need a left-handed reliever, so let’s make you a reliever,” he recalled. McGinn was called up to the big club on September 3, 1968, debuted as a pinch runner, then came in to pitch against the eventual champion Cardinals; he walked two batters and was tagged with the loss. McGinn got into 14 games with the Reds that year, going 0–1 with a 5.25 ERA. The Reds left McGinn unprotected in the expansion draft, so the Montreal Expos selected him with their 14th pick. McGinn made history in two opening-day games in 1969. On April 8, he would become the first relief pitcher in Expos history as he came in for Mudcat Grant in the second inning of Montreal's first ever game at Shea Stadium against the New York Mets. In the fourth inning, McGinn hit the first home run in Expos history, off Mets starter Tom Seaver (the only home run of his big league career). Six days later, on April 14, he earned the first MLB win in Canada with 51⁄3 innings of shutout relief as Montreal defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 8–7.[citation needed] McGinn would appear in 74 games in 1969, compiling a 7–10 record with a 3.94 ERA and six saves for an Expos club that went 52-110. McGinn was 7-10 again in 1970, but his ERA jumped to 5.44; he also threw in winter ball and in the instructional league, which resulted in a tired arm. After a disappointing spring training in 1971, McGinn started the season at Triple-A Winnipeg; he returned to Montreal, but was not effective, going 1–4 with a 5.96 ERA. Prior to the 1972 season, the Expos traded McGinn to the Chicago Cubs, where he could only manage a 0–5 mark with a 5.89 ERA. It was McGinn's last year in the big leagues; he would then spend the 1973 season with Wichita and Tulsa in Triple-A, with a 3–6 record and a 5.40 ERA. Altogether, McGinn appeared in a total of 210 games (28 starts) during his five MLB seasons, with 15 wins, 30 losses, 10 saves, and an earned run average of 5.11. The following is an excerpt from McGinn's online obituary: "Dan graduated from Cathedral High School in Omaha and the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Dan had a full, enjoyable life. At Cathedral, he was a multi-sport athlete. He was the winning quarterback for the North squad in the NE Shrine football game. He received a full-ride football scholarship to Notre Dame where he also was a pitcher on the baseball team. Dan was drafted in the first round by the Cincinnati Reds his senior year. He played in the major leagues with the Reds, Expos, and Cubs. Dan had many firsts: first relief pitcher to pitch for the Montreal Expos, first Expos pitcher to pick off a baserunner, first Expo to hit a home run, and won the inaugural home opener. After baseball, Dan was a National Account Manager for AT&T for 24 years. After retiring, he became a scout for the Philadelphia Phillies for a number of years. And then he had his favorite job and became UNO's pitching coach for 15 years. He loved his time teaching and coaching his players."
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