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Eli Manning Birthplace

March 16, 2012 by · Comments Off on Eli Manning Birthplace 

Eli Manning Birthplace, Date of birth: (1981-01-03) January 3, 1981
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Height: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Weight: 218 lb (99 kg)

Elisha Nelson “Eli” Manning (born January 3, 1981) is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He is the son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning and the younger brother of former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning.

Manning played college football at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) after attending prep school at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. He was drafted as the first overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers and immediately traded to the New York Giants, who in return gave up a package highlighted by fourth overall selection Philip Rivers.

New England Patriots

February 28, 2012 by · Comments Off on New England Patriots 

New England Patriots, Mike Reiss shares some quick hit thoughts from the Patriots and around the NFL.

1. When it comes to Patriots offensive tackle Matt Light and a potential retirement, I think that he is seriously considering it but has yet to come to a final decision. Light is under contract for $3.4 million next season, which is a bargain for the Patriots if he decides to return. I’m not sure Light is the type of player who would be enticed to return by a contract sweetener, but the Patriots could go that route in an attempt to persuade him if they feel he’s a key cog to have in 2012.

2. One theory floated at the NFL combine is that the Patriots’ AFC East rivals will be aggressive in targeting the safety spot aggressively this offseason. The reason: Rob Gronkowski. The league hasn’t seen that type of tight end matchup issue in some time, which puts more of a premium on finding a unique safety with the ability to hang with him.

4. With the Patriots having their top two centers (Dan Koppen & Dan Connolly) scheduled for unrestricted free agency, my sense is that they would like to lock up at least one of them before free agency begins. If they don’t, they leave themselves in a bit of a vulnerable spot.

6. Patriots defensive end Mark Anderson’s free-agent status reminds me of Tully Banta-Cain’s in the 2010 offseason. Banta-Cain had come to New England on a one-year, prove-it deal and produced 10 sacks, which helped him land a solid three-year extension in ’10. That is almost the same way it unfolded with Anderson. With teams playing more sub packages these days, Anderson is in line for a nice raise, similar to Banta-Cain.

7. If I had to sum up what coaches and scouts from around the NFL believe the Patriots need most, based on casual discussions at the combine, the answers are an outside receiver and more athletes on defense. Some feel too much pressure is placed on quarterback Tom Brady because of those deficiencies. I’d add a kickoff returner to the list.

8. Similar to trading for Deion Branch last year, which was a situation in which Branch had more value to the Patriots than the league’s other teams, free-agent receiver Brandon Lloyd is in the same category this offseason. Projecting how a receiver will transition into the Patriots’ system is a challenge, but since Lloyd has already done it under McDaniels in Denver and St. Louis, that should increase the team’s comfort level in pursuing him. Lloyd would add a lot to the offense and he seems to want to play in New England — if the price is right. He’s leaped over Reggie Wayne as my top free-agent option for the team.

10. Barring a late change, look for running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis to make it to the open market on March 13, with the possibility of his return to New England remaining open. It appears the Patriots have set a value on Green-Ellis, and it’s not at a level that has Green-Ellis ready to sign before seeing what interest he might generate on the open market.

Famous Deaths In February 2012

February 28, 2012 by · Comments Off on Famous Deaths In February 2012 

Famous Deaths In February 2012, February 2012
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* Charles Amer, 100, British football chairman (Middlesbrough F.C.). (death announced on this date)
* Eli Belyutin, 86, Russian artist. (Russian)
* Rich Brenner, 65, American sports anchor (WGHP), heart attack.
* Sailen Manna, 87, Indian footballer.
* Velloor G. Ramabhadran, 82, Indian mridangamist.
* Helga Vlahovic’, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer. (Croatian)

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* Lynn Compton, 90, American Army officer (Easy Company), appellate judge, and prosecutor of Sirhan Sirhan.
* A’rpa’d Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach. (Spanish)
* Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings).
* Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress. (Dutch)
* Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive.
* Kazunori Yoneda, 61, Japanese volleyball coach (women’s national team), lung cancer. (Japanese)

25

* Rau’l Abzueta, 49, Venezuelan musician, stroke. (Spanish)
* Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter.
* Dee Cernile, 46, Canadian guitarist (Sven Gali), cancer.
* Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, Arkansas state representative.
* Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
* Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson’s disease.
* Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke.
* Thomas Watters, 99, Scottish veteran of the Spanish Civil War.

24

* Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal. (Portuguese)
* Istva’n Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer.
* Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke.
* Dennis Gomes, 68, American prosecutor and businessman (Resorts Casino Hotel), complications from kidney dialysis.
* Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer.
* Howard Kissel, 69, American theatre critic (New York Daily News), complications of liver transplant.
* Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director.
* Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.
* Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.
* Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction. (Portuguese)
* Eliana Tranchesi, 55, Brazilian businesswoman (Daslu), lung cancer. (Portuguese)
* Kostas Tsiftis, 34, Greek journalist, heart attack. (Greek)

23

* Pandit Nidan Bandhu Banerjee, 89, Indian classical vocalist, age related illness.
* Joydeb Basu, 49, Indian poet, heart attack.
* Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.
* Stella Nardari-Vecchiato, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Italy at time of her death, natural causes. (Italian)
* William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness.
* Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes).
* John Susac, 71, American neurologist (Susac’s syndrome), lung cancer.

22

* Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian.
* Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling.
* Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People’s Artist of the USSR. (Russian)
* Ko-ji Kita, 63, Japanese singer (Four Leaves), liver cancer. (Japanese)
* Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer.
* Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic).
* Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
* Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator. (Dutch)
* Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling.
* Royal Academy, 25, Irish racehorse, old age.
* Marko Ruz(djak, 65, Croatian academic. (Croatian)
* Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Rami’rez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack. (Spanish)
* Waldo Sauter, 90, American college baseball coach (Central Michigan University).
* Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack. (Italian)
* Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter (“Limbo Rock”) and music arranger.

21

* Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack.
* Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack.
* Thom Enright, 59, American musician (The Young Adults), brain cancer.
* Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falca~o, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999).
* Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979).
* Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer.
* Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and federal cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975).
* Yasuhiko Kawamura, 71, Japanese baseball player (Chunichi Dragons), pancreatic cancer. (Japanese)
* Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer.
* Andreas Lunnan, 71, Norwegian journalist and musician. (Norwegian)
* Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.
* Asahi Matsui, 84, Japanese politician, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack.
* Tsutomu Omori, 49, Japanese executive, suicide by hanging. (body found on this date)
* Christopher Reimer, 26, Canadian rock guitarist (Women, The Dodos).
* Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), cancer.
* Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.
* Rami al-Sayed, Syrian journalist and blogger, shelling.

20

* Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
* Knut Torbj?rn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach. (Norwegian)
* Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke. (Russian)
* Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author.
* Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian. (German)
* Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).
* S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
* Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Mun~eca Brava).
* Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist. (Norwegian)
* Maya Sen, 84, Indian Rabindra Sangeet exponent, heart and thyroid problems.
* Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002). (Spanish)
* Kjell Thue, 92, Norwegian radio host. (Norwegian)
* Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).
* Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Earth 2).

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* Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke. (Bulgarian)
* Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer.
* Luc Flad, 76, Dutch footballer. (Dutch)
* Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.
* Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor.
* Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack.
* J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist.
* Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.
* Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
* Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.
* So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman.
* Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher. (Dutch)
* Herman G. Tillman, Jr., 89, American pilot (WWII, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure.
* Shigeo Uetake, 81, Japanese politician, bile duct cancer. (Japanese)
* Jaroslav Velinsky’, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author. (Czech)

18

* Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater. (Norwegian)
* Jo’zsef Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter. (Hungarian)
* George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes.
* Zvezdan C(ebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager.
* Rose Cliver, 109, American centenarian, one of the last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
* Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano singer, cancer.
* Clementina Di’az y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic.
* M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian.
* Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer’s disease.
* Mari’a Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist.
* Matt Lamb, 79, American painter.
* Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960).
* Roger Miner, 77, American federal appellate judge, heart failure.
* Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Sadao Sakamoto, 94, Japanese politician, stroke. (Japanese)
* Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer.
* Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose).

17

* Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician.
* Robert Carr, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974).
* Joa~o Viegas Carrascala~o, 65, East Timorese politician. (Portuguese)
* Jordan da Costa, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes. (Portuguese)
* Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
* Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure.
* Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke.
* Tatyana Golikova, 66, Russian ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet). (Russian)
* Danny Halloran, 57, Australian VFL football player.
* Milorad Bibic’ Mosor, 59, Croatian journalist and writer. (Croatian)
* Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
* Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
* Atsuo Okunaka, 81, Japanese film director, heart failure. (Japanese)
* Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.
* Enrique Sierra, 54, Spanish musician, member of rock band Radio Futura, kidney disease. (Spanish)

16

* Dus(ko Antunovic’, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach. (Croatian)
* Go”sta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete. (Swedish)
* Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer. (Japanese)
* Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor.
* Bubi Chen, 74, Indonesian jazz musician
* Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988).
* Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer.
* Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977). (Norwegian)
* John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
* Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.
* Jon McIntire, 70, American band manager (Grateful Dead), cancer.
* Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.
* Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
* Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad).
* Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.
* Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).
* Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.

15

* Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure.
* Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist.
* William H. Dabney, 77, American colonel, awarded Navy Cross.
* Jacques Duby, 89, French actor. (French)
* Pola Illéry, 103, Romanian film actress.
* Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist.
* Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.
* Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts).
* Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress.
* Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer.
* James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer.
* Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, lung cancer.
* John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer.

14

* V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician.
* Aleksander Avdzhiev, 53, Bulgarian journalist and television presenter, cancer. (Bulgarian)
* Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist.
* Zlatko Crnkovic’, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest. (Croatian)
* Henri-Germain Delauze, 82, French engineer and diver, founder of COMEX. (French)
* Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper. (Polish)
* Shamim Ahmed Khan, 74, Indian sitar player, cardiac arrest.
* Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician.
* Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi).
* Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
* Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot).
* Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).
* Péter Rusora’n, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion. (Hungarian)

13

* Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).
* Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer.
* Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sa~o José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer.
* Frank Bran~a, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
* Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
* Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist.
* Eamon Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack.
* Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor.
* Sho-zaburo- Fujino, 84, Japanese economist, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992).
* Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure.
* Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.
* Keita Kushimaumi, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease. (Japanese)
* Mohamed Lamari, 72, Algerian general, Chief of Staff of the People’s National Army (1993–2004), heart attack.
* Earl Lindley, 78, American CFL football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
* Chieko Misaki, 90-91, Japanese actress, complications from dementia. (Japanese)
* Sanso’n, 87, Spanish football player. (Spanish)
* Alaxandros Schinas, 88, Greek journalist (Deutsche Welle), stroke. (Greek)
* Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer.
* Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist.

12

* Cem Atabeyog(lu, 88, Turkish sports historian, journalist and writer, pioneer of Fenerbahçe men’s basketball team. (Turkish)
* Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run.
* Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer.
* Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player.
* Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat.
* Ritsuo Isobe, 89, Japanese businessman and bureaucrat (Ministry of Finance), renal pelvis cancer. (Japanese)
* David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
* Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936). (Dutch)
* John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk), co-founder of Mad magazine.
* Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry.

11

* Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer. (Norwegian)
* Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general. (Hebrew)
* Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter.
* Whitney Houston, 48, American singer (“I Will Always Love You”) and actress (The Bodyguard).
* Issa al-Khouli, Syrian general, shot.
* Sergey Kolosov, 90, Russian film director, People’s Artist of the USSR. (Russian)
* Michitaka Konoe, 89, Japanese historian, head of the Konoe family, heart failure. (Japanese)
* Yo-ji Nagase, 80, Japanese politician, mayor of Kawaguchi, Saitama, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990).
* Ryu-ichiro- Tachi, 90, Japanese economist, pneumonia. (Japanese)

10

* Chuck Baird, 64, American deaf artist.
* Nikolaos Chios, 54, Greek journalist, cancer. [dead link] (Greek)
* Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect.
* Emyr Daniel, 63, Welsh broadcaster and television producer.
* R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar.
* Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian.
* Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman.
* Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998).
* Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001).
* Gloria Lloyd, 87, American actress (Temptation), daughter of Harold Lloyd.
* Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia.
* Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality.
* Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suspected suicide.
* James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic.
* Ippei So-da, 81, Japanese actor, colon cancer. (Japanese)
* Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident.

9

* Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier.
* Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer.
* O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia.
* Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack.
* John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
* Kiyoshi Kajiwara, 90, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, chief of the Ministry of Transport. (Japanese)
* Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician. (Polish)
* Dave Maynard, 82, American broadcaster (WBZ (AM), WBZ-TV), Parkinson’s disease.
* Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer.
* Oscar Nu’n~ez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer.
* Don Panciera, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).
* Luka’s( Pr(ibyl, 33, Czech sports administrator, Vice-President of AC Sparta Prague.
* Shiro- Taihei, 55, Japanese comedian, actor and broadcast writer, ventricular fibrillation. (Japanese)
* Milan Zinaic’, 65, Croatian art historian and art critic. (Croatian)

8

* Adam Adamowicz, 42, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer.
* Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter.
* Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Barney Miller; The Great Waldo Pepper), natural causes.
* Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack.
* John Cunningham, 66, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness.
* John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer.
* Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer. (Italian)
* Robert Hecht, Jr., 92, American antiquities dealer.
* Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors).
* Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977).
* Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner).
* Ma’rcia Maria, 67, Brazilian actress, hemorrhage. (Portuguese)
* Enrique Moreno, 48, Spanish footballer. (Spanish)
* Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author.
* Jimmy Sabater, Sr., 75, American Latin musician.
* Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer.
* Ib Holm S?rensen, Danish computer scientist. (death announced on this date)
* Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.
* Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest. (Portuguese)

7

* Esfandiar Ahmadieh, 83, Iranian animator.
* James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat.
* Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot.
* Jim Dinwiddie, 63, American basketball player (University of Kentucky), apparent suicide by gunshot.
* Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer.
* Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer. (French)
* Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims.
* Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach.
* Sergio Larrai’n, 81, Chilean photographer.
* Sho-ichi Sengoku, 62, Japanese zoologist, duodenal cancer. (Japanese)
* Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler.

6

* Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley).
* Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian.
* Nikolay Evdakov, 47, Russian professional poker player.
* Tsuneo Fujita, 82, Japanese anatomist and endocrinologist (Niigata University), stroke. (Japanese)
* Vitaly Gorelik, 44, Russian mountaineer, heart attack.
* Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke. (Japanese)
* Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher.
* Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTE’ Concert Orchestra).
* Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer.
* Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer. (Spanish)
* Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993).
* W?adys?aw Ogrodzin’ski, 93, Polish historian and writer. (Polish)
* Nuri Otay, 54, Turkish businessman. (Turkish)
* Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure.
* Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter.
* Istva’n Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player. (Hungarian)
* Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, cancer.
* David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic.

5

* Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
* Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction).
* Jazmi’n De Grazia, 27, Argentine model, drowned.
* Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer.
* Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer.
* William D. Houser, 90, American admiral (WWII, Korea, Korea), Alzheimer’s disease and pneumonia.
* John Turner Sargent, Sr., 87, American publisher.
* Barnett K. Thoroughgood, 62, American Church of God in Christ pastor, archbishop of the Second Jurisdiction of Virginia, heart failure.
* Ante Vulin, 80, Croatian academic and architect. (Croatian)
* Mitsuhiko Yoshino, 80, Japanese mountain climber, heart failure. (Japanese)
* Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Zhaotong (since 2000).
* Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete. (Dutch)

4

* Hiroshi Ashino, 87, Japanese chanson singer, interstitial lung disease. (Japanese)
* Istva’n Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993). (Hungarian)
* Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983).
* Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash.
* Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C.
* Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta.
* Jeff Fraza, 34, American professional boxer, struck by train.
* Andy Gabrielson, 24, American stormchaser, car accident.
* Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
* Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.
* Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter. (Portuguese)
* Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche. (German)
* Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer.
* Livio Minelli, 85, Italian boxer.
* Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure.
* Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975).
* Ja’nos Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist. (Hungarian)
* Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003).
* Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash.

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* Nikos Apergis, 65, Greek actor, playwright and politician, cancer. (Greek)
* Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash.
* HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor.
* Patricia Disney, 77, American philanthropist, Alzheimer’s disease.
* Nello Ferrara, 93, American businessman (Ferrara Pan Candy Company).
* Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Run for Your Life, Road House), pancreatic cancer.
* Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).
* Kumashi Kakehashi, 88, Japanese politician, stomach cancer. (Japanese)
* Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure.
* Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer.
* Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer.
* Mayer Matalon, 89, Jamaican businessman.
* Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College). (Polish)
* Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981).
* Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989).
* Samuel Youd, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits).
* Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.

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* Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children’s writer (Pit Pony), heart attack.
* Edgar Bessen, 78, German actor. (German)
* Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999).
* Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar.
* David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer.
* George Esper, 79, American reporter (Fall of Saigon) and professor.
* Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction. (German)
* Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst. [dead link] (Spanish)
* Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
* Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. (Spanish)
* Jane Ising, 110, German-born American academic and supercentenarian, wife of Ernst Ising.
* Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician.
* James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke.
* Anil Mohile, 71, Indian music arranger, heart attack.
* John R. Pawson, 73, American rail transportation author.

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* Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Gerlando Alberti, 88, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer. (Italian)
* Yona Baltman, 82, Israeli jurist, State Attorney (1982–1988). (Hebrew)
* Elizabeth Candon, 90, American Roman Catholic nun, president of Trinity College (Vermont), pulmonary fibrosis.
* Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
* Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).
* Fabia’n Estapé, 88, Spanish economist.
* John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
* Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (The Longest Day). (German)
* Philip Hudsmith, 86, Canadian film director.
* Mike Kelley, 57, American artist, apparent suicide.
* Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager. (Slovak)
* Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist.
* Anil Mohile, 71, Indian film music composer, heart attack.
* Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper. (Norwegian)
* Taiji O-tani, 80, Japanese baseball umpire, heart failure. (Japanese)
* David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
* Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete. (German)
* Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper. (French)
* Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease.
* Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).
* Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper. (Polish)
* Wis?awa Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).

Super Bowl 2012

January 9, 2012 by · Comments Off on Super Bowl 2012 

Super Bowl 2012Super Bowl 2012, There are many festivities surrounding the 2012 Super Bowl that lead up to the big game on Feb. 5. Fans can get an entire week celebrating all things football as the most popular team sports league in the United States wraps up its 2011-2012 season.

Here’s a look at some of the many events fans can attend with the purchase of tickets. The VisitIndy.com website and the city’s Super Bowl website have comprehensive lists of events.

The massive Super Bowl Village kicks off the party at 3 p.m. on Jan. 27. Open every day until after the Super Bowl concludes, the Super Bowl Village will be the place where everyone hangs out until the game starts. Fans can experience tailgating, broadcasting, gaming, ice sculpting, interactive games and even meet celebrities. The world’s longest temporary zipline will give fans a chance to fly through downtown Indianapolis.

Hours run from 11 a.m. to midnight on weekends and 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. Be sure to check out the action on Pennsylvania, Georgia and Meridian streets. There will be live music throughout the venue.

The NFL Experience is a fully immersed event at the Indiana Convention Center. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for kids 12 and under. Fans can get autographs, participate in kid’s clinics and view some NFL football memorabilia. You can even see the actual Vince Lombardi trophy up close and personal before it is awarded to the winning team.

Hours of the NFL Experience begin at 3 p.m. Jan. 27. The venue runs every day until Saturday, Feb. 4 until 10 p.m. For true football fans, the NFL Experience is one-of-a-kind.

New England Patriots

January 3, 2012 by · Comments Off on New England Patriots 

New England PatriotsNew England Patriots, New England Patriots’ fans are uneasy about the possibility of confrontations with the Steelers and the Ravens.

For starters, it’s probably going to work out that way. So let’s just expect it.

Second of all, this is a good Super Bowl path to take. Yes, the odds of us getting to the Super Bowl would be dramatically decreased. We know this. But until the day they invent that memory-wiping thing from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I’ll continue being haunted by Super Bowl XLII. And so will the Patriots.

There’s no point of getting back to the Super Bowl if they’re not bringing the Lombardi trophy on a parade through Boston.

And there’s no point in getting to the big game if we’re not going to believe in our team.

Right now, we don’t believe in them. Not completely.

Nearly every win this season was difficult to get. The Redskins, the Colts, the Cowboys, the Dolphins, and the Bills gave us all we could handle, and those teams didn’t even make the playoffs.

Never once did Patriots’ fans recline in their chairs, prop their feet up, crack open a beer in satisfaction, and enjoy the game. Every week was a potential migraine-inducing blunder. Every game was an uphill battle.

Only in Week 10, right after our second victory over the Jets, did Patriots’ fans entertain the notion that the Patriots could be destined for something terrific.

Beating the Steelers and the Ravens would change everything about the perception of this team. More importantly, it’ll change the mindset of the Patriots. They’ll feel ready to run through a brick wall for that trophy. That’s the team we want.

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