Celebrity Deaths

[Walks_At_Night]

Sports Illustrated

Hard to believe.

[PB]

Sports Illustrated

A doctor's office waiting room staple, gone with the wind in the covid / post covid era.

[sean92008]

Sports Illustrated

Who? What? Huh?

[JUAN]

Who? What? Huh?

https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/business/sports-illustrateds-entire-staff-told-they-are-getting-laid-off/

Gone tranny

[Bart Ell]

https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/business/sports-illustrateds-entire-staff-told-they-are-getting-laid-off/

Gone tranny

It is surely that and not the fact that nobody reads magazines in 2024.

[PB]

https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/business/sports-illustrateds-entire-staff-told-they-are-getting-laid-off/

Oh how the publishing mighty have fallen in this brave new digital world.

Back when school kids were sent out to earn a few pennies for their schools by selling magazine subscriptions to their families, neighbors, parent's friends and co-workers, Sports Illustrated had to have been near the top of that list.  All the enticements offered in TV ads to by a subscription - for yourself or as a gift - who wouldn't be delighted to receive a year of SI for Father's Day or Christmas!

The annual uproar the swimsuit issue would create - from high school sociology classes to church pulpits.  If their fans could get one before they were sold out on the magazine rack.  Somehow these never made it to the doctor's office magazine pile.

And then one day we read that it's gone.

[JUAN]

If they put Kathy Ireland from the 80s on the cover they might do better, but the real answer is probably ESPN.

[sean92008]

Of course, the article had a picture of a woman gushy-wet front-holer wearing only some paint. It's a little hard to tuck with paint, epoxy... Maybe...
😁😁😁

[sean92008]

Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of the Shangri-Las - 75

[sean92008]

Death watch. Metastasized prostate cancer is close to a lot of vital organs... Ryne Sandberg

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/hall-of-fame-second-baseman-ryne-sandberg-says-he-has-metastatic-prostate-cancer/ar-BB1h5IUX?OCID=ansmsnnews11

[JUAN]

Charles Osgood - 91.

[sean92008]

[JUAN]

Que, aka UGA10 - 10 years old.  Two national championships, And a couple of SEC championships.

[Uncle Duke]

Que, aka UGA10 - 10 years old.  Two national championships, And a couple of SEC championships.

If you've never read John Berendt's book, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," I highly recommend it.  It's about a high profile murder case in Savannah, GA, back in the 1980s, but one of the lawyers involved was owner of UGA (#?).  The dog's story and lifestyle, while not having anything to do with the murder, is a key subplot.  The dog lived better than I do.

[JUAN]

Sonny Siler and his wife were students at Georgia in the late 50s.  They started taking their English bulldog, dressed in a Georgia sweater, to football games.  She loved the attention and became UGA I.  Siler raised her descendents until his death last year.  Now his son has taken over.  The current UGA is named Boom.