In Memoriam

[MajorHoy]

News anchor and reporter Roger Mudd has passed away.

Saw that on the CBS Evening News last night.

He was a great example of how TV news anchors use to conduct themselves in the days when news reporters generally tried to be "fair" and not as blatantly partisan as some (especially on cable networks) have become these days.

R.I.P. Roger.

[The Darknight Detective]

Saw that on the CBS Evening News last night.

He was a great example of how TV news anchors use to conduct themselves in the days when news reporters generally tried to be "fair" and not as blatantly partisan as some (especially on cable networks) have become these days.

R.I.P. Roger.

Those days are gone and won't be coming back, IMO. The media is like it was in the early 19th century when both sides were rabidly partisan. It isn't the way I grew up with in the '70s, but as long as I can get every side possible under the sun (which I can), then so be it.

As for Roger Mudd, I loved him on The History Channel... when they used to air, you know, history.

RIP

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Watching college hoops tonight and saw on the bottom scroll that boxing champ Marvin Hagler passed away today at 66.

[Kirby101]

Watching college hoops tonight and saw on the bottom scroll that boxing champ Marvin Hagler passed away today at 66.

Marvelous Marv. The fight with Leonard was epic.

[Scott Taylor]

That was a great fight. Really could have gone either way in scoring, though I think at the time Leonard was the sentimental favorite. RIP Marvin Hagler.

[Deathstroke]

Marvelous Marvin Hagler was my favorite boxer. I missed the primes of so many of the great fighters. But I saw Hagler's and loved his style. I still think he got screwed in the Leonard fight.

I love that the first round of his fight with Thomas Hearns is actually thought of by boxing experts as the greatest FIGHT in boxing history (read that in a tribute article). I didn't see that particular fight but I went and found it on Youtube when I saw that he died. Brutal fight for the 8 minutes it lasted. I read about the fight and the best quote about it came from Hagler himself. When asked if he could still see because of the blood coming down his face from a cut on his head, he responded with, "I'm not missing him, am I?".

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Just heard that Yaphet Kotto, Parker from Alien passed away at 81.

[achilles]

RIP to Sabine Schmitz, former race car driver, Top Gear presenter, a lady who famously schooled both Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond on the Nurburgring. She went round that ring more often than any other person in history. She was 51, and died of cancer. Hope she's tearing it up on the Nurburgring in Heaven. She was the only woman to win the Nurburgring 24 hours race.



Cross posted to the car thread.

[Deathstroke]

Boston Marathon legend Dick Hoyt has passed away.

[achilles]

RIP to Laker legend Elgin Baylor at 86 of "natural causes".

[achilles]

RIP to George Segal, Oscar nominated actor from The Goldbergs and too many great movies and TV projects to fully list. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...002742874.html

One movie in particular of his I loved; one of the best suspense movies ever made, a brilliant cat and mouse game between Segal's Harry Caulder, an amusement park ride inspector, and Timothy Bottom's Young Man, a brilliant bomber blackmailing amusement parks by threatening to bomb the title rides in the 1976 thriller Rollercoaster, which culminates in one of the best final acts I've ever seen. Featuring Helen Hunt as a little kid in what I think was her first movie roll, alongside Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark. He was chainsmoking, (and trying to stop with aversion therapy), brilliance, in as I said, one of those mid to late 70s brilliant small movie thrillers.

[CaptCleghorn]

Boston Marathon legend Dick Hoyt has passed away.

Dick Hoyt's love for his son and his accomplishments are truly legendary. May parents all develop and grow to be more like him.

[Deathstroke]

French Olympic snowboard Julie Pomagalski has passed away.

[MajorHoy]

R.I.P. actress Jessica Walters.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/enter...bit/index.html

She was in so many shows and movies, there are way too many to list. Among her most recent work was the TV show "Arrested Development".

[CaptainEurope]

R.I.P. actress Jessica Walters.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/enter...bit/index.html

She was in so many shows and movies, there are way too many to list. Among her most recent work was the TV show "Arrested Development".

She was also Morgan LeFay in the 1978 Dr. Strange TV movie!