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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Rob Lytle, American football player (Michigan Wolverines, Denver Broncos), died from a heart attack he was , 56


Rob Lytle  was an American football running back who played for the Denver Broncos of NFL died from a heart attack he was , 56 . He attended the University of Michigan (1973–1976). Lytle was drafted in the second round of the 1977 NFL Draft by Denver with the 45th overall pick.

(November 12, 1954 – November 20, 2010)

Lytle was born in Fremont, Ohio. He was a consensus All-American as a senior at Michigan in 1976, setting a then school record with 1,469 rushing yards and finishing third in the Heisman Trophy balloting behind Tony Dorsett and Ricky Bell. Lytle also broke the Michigan career rushing record with 3,307 yards. His record was broken five years later by Jamie Morris, and he now ranks seventh in rushing yards by a Michigan player.[1] Lytle was involved in both of the games in which Michigan had three rushers accumulate 100 yards.[2][3][4]
After his college career, Lytle spent seven seasons in the NFL with the Broncos. During that time, he rushed for 1,451 yards, caught 61 passes for 562 yards, returned six kickoffs for 99 yards, and scored 14 touchdowns (12 rushing and two receiving). He also scored the only touchdown of the game for the Broncos in Super Bowl XII. Lytle holds the distinction of being the first player to score a touchdown in both the Rose Bowl and the Super Bowl.
Lytle suffered a heart attack and died at Fremont Memorial Hospital in Fremont, Ohio. He is survived by his wife Tracy Lytle, his son Kelly Lytle, his daughter Erin Lytle Tober, his granddaughter Audrey and his father William Lytle.[5]

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Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) died he was , 78

Daniel Eugene McDevitt  was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1957 through 1962 for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Athletics. He was born in New York City when he died he was , 78.

(November 18, 1932 - November 20, 2010)

 McDevitt was born on November 18, 1932, in Manhattan. He relocated together with his family to Hallstead, Pennsylvania, where he was a star player on his high school baseball team.[1] He attended St. Bonaventure University in Olean, New York, but dropped out after he was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in September 1951.[2] He was released by the Yankees and served in the United States Army during the Korean War before being signed by the Dodgers after the completion of his military service.[1]

McDevitt is most remembered as the starting pitcher for the Dodgers last home game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on September 24, 1957, during his first season in the major leagues, in which McDevitt pitched a 2–0 complete game shutout victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in front of a crowd of 6,702, in a game in which he threw nine strikeouts and gave up five hits.[1][3] He finished the 1957 season with a 7-4 record, to go along with 90 strikeouts and an earned run average of 3.25.[2] The Dodgers finished the season with a three-game series on the road against the Philadelphia Phillies, and ended the year in third place.[1] In October, just weeks after what turned out to be the team's final game in Brooklyn, owner Walter O'Malley announced that the Dodgers would be moving to Los Angeles.[3]

He pitched three more seasons with the Dodgers, achieving a career-best 10 wins against eight losses in 1959, when the Dodgers would go on to win their first World Series championship in California, defeating the Chicago White Sox in six games, though McDevitt did not appear in the series.[1][2] He played for both the Yankees and the Minnesota Twins during the 1961 season, and ended his major league career with the Kansas City Athletics in 1962.[2]

McDevitt lived in Social Circle, Georgia, but died in Covington, Georgia, at the age of 78.[4]

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Little Smokey Smothers, American blues guitarist and singer, died from natural causes he was , 71

 Little Smokey Smothers [2] was an African American, Chicago blues guitarist and singer, died from natural causes he was , 71
His elder brother, Otis (died 1993), was known as the bluesman Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, with whom he was sometimes confused.

(January 2, 1939[1] – November 20, 2010)

 Biography

Albert Abraham "Abe" Smothers was born in Tchula, Mississippi,[1][2] learned guitar at the age of 15, and relocated to Chicago two years later.[3][4] He soon appeared on stage playing alongside Arthur “Big Boy” Spires, Magic Sam, Otis Rush and Lazy Bill Lucas.[4] In 1958 he joined up with Howlin' Wolf, and played on Wolf's recording session for Chess Records the following year. Tracks Smothers contributed to included "I've Been Abused," "Howlin' for My Darling," and "Mr. Airplane Man."[1]





In 1961 he founded Little Smokey Smothers and the Pipeplayers.[4] He later met Paul Butterfield and became a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He was replaced in the band by Elvin Bishop, but developed a friendship that lasted a lifetime.[4] Throughout the 1960s Smothers appeared with Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Earl Hooker, and Junior Wells.[3] Musical opportunities dried up in the 1970s, and Smothers worked in construction.[4] He re-appeared in the 1980s with The Legendary Blues Band.[5] Their 1989 recording, Woke up with the Blues, included contributions from Smothers.[4][6]
In 1993, Bishop made a guest appearance on Smothers first solo album with the Dutch Black Magic label, Bossman! The Chicago Blues of Little Smokey Smothers. The recording also included work from Smothers' cousin, Lee "Shot" Williams.[1] Bishop and Smothers played at the 1993 Chicago Blues Festival.[7] Smothers had open heart surgery in 1995, but the following year issued Second Time Around.[4] Smothers performed at the 1999 San Diego Blues Festival, and at a party for Mick Jagger's 55th birthday.[3]
Alligator Records then issued That's My Partner (2000), a live album recorded in San Francisco, which saw Smothers reunited with Bishop.[1] Smothers also appeared at the 2000 Chicago Blues Festival.[8] In 2006 Smothers and Bishop played live at the Ground Zero club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Latterly Smothers experienced health problems, and had both legs amputated due to diabetes.
In 2009, Bishop compiled the benefit album, Chicago Blues Buddies, incorporating recordings made by Smothers and Bishop dating back to 1992. Proceeds from the album helped to pay for Smothers' medical costs.[7]

On November 20, 2010, after a spell in a Chicago hospital, Smothers died of natural causes.[2]

Discography

Albums

  • Bossman! The Chicago Blues of Little Smokey Smothers (1993) - Black Magic (Netherlands)
  • Second Time Around (1996) - Crosscut (Germany)
  • Chicago Blues Buddies (2009) - Black Derby[9]

Other appearances

See also


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Ruth Springford Canadian actress (5 Card Stud, Hangin' In), died after a short illness she was , 89,

Ruth Springford[1] was a Canadian radio, stage, television and film actress died after a short illness she was , 89.[2] 


Springford's was credited as a regular role on the 70s sitcom The Frankie Howerd Show, nurse Mae in the CBC drama Corwin, voices in animated specials and series, and guest spots on The Littlest Hobo and Friday the 13th: The Series.

(circa 1921 – November 20, 2010) 

Her credits included the television series Hangin' In, A Gift to Last, The Frankie Howerd Show and Maggie Muggins, as well as the Jim Henson teleplay The Cube and the feature film The Changeling.
A longtime member of ACTRA, she received the Andrew Allan Award, the John Drainie Award, the ACTRA Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award.[3]
Springford died at Etobicoke General Hospital, aged 89, on November 20, 2010.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Heinz Weiss , German film actor died he was , 89

 Heinz Weiss was a German film actor.[2] Weiss is best known for playing the role of Phil Decker in the Jerry Cotton series of films and the role of Captain Heinz Hansen in Das Traumschiff.
He died on 20 November 2010 in Grünwald near Munich he was , 89.[3]
(12 June 1921 – 20 November 2010[1])

Selected filmography

Television appearances


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Jim Yardley, English cricketer died he was , 64.

Thomas James Yardley was an English cricketer: a left-handed batsman, occasional wicket-keeper and even more occasional right-arm medium pace bowler (he bowled only eight overs in first-class cricket) who played for Worcestershire and Northamptonshire between 1967 and 1982 died he was , 64.

(27 October 1946 – 20 November 2010[1])

Career

Yardley played football for his local team Chaddesley Corbett and was offered a trial at Wolves. West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United and two other teams were also alleged to be interested. He was offered a professional contract but turned it down in exchange for a professional cricket contract with Worcestershire.[citation needed]
Born in Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, Yardley played regularly in that county's second eleven for two years before making his first-class debut against Nottinghamshire in August 1967; he made 3 and 4. Despite one further appearance that season, his first-class career only really took off in 1968, when he was a fixture in the first team from late July onwards, despite a modest top score of 43 not out from his 17 innings. 1969 was another mediocre season, but in 1970 Yardley really came good, making 762 first-class runs and averaging over 40.
In 1971 his average was more modest (30.45) but he nevertheless managed to pass a thousand runs for the season for the first (and only) time in his career, also hitting his maiden first-class century, 104 not out against the touring Indians at New Road. It was also in this season that Yardley claimed his only two first-class stumpings, both against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham while standing in for Gordon Wilcock who was in the team but unable to keep wicket. His two victims were both notable: former South African Test player Mike Procter and future Test umpire Barrie Meyer.
In 1972, Yardley was capped by Worcestershire, and though he had a poor year in the County Championship, averaging a mere 20, in List A cricket it was a different story: he enjoyed the most successful one-day season of his career, averaging over 35 and hitting three half-centuries, including his highest score in that form of the game, 75 not out against Warwickshire in the Benson & Hedges Cup, albeit in a match Worcestershire eventually lost by eight wickets.
1973 saw him hit two first-class hundreds, including his career best of 135 against Nottinghamshire, and despite a top score of only 66* he played an important part in the Worcestershire side which won the County Championship in 1974, contributing five fifties and a batting average close to 30 as well as 34 catches, his best in a single season. However, his List A average was a mere 13.50, and after one more season with Worcestershire, in which he passed 50 only twice in 30 first-class innings, he moved to Northamptonshire.
Yardley spent seven seasons at Northampton, and although his figures were slightly less impressive than they had been at Worcester – he reached three figures only once for his new county, scoring exactly 100 (not out) against Gloucestershire in 1980 – he still made important contributions and generally scored consistently, especially in the four seasons from 1978 to 1981 when he played in the great majority of matches and always averaged between 26 and 31; his highest season's aggregate for Northants was 803 in 1981, and in that year he made his only two List A stumpings, both against Glamorgan in the John Player League. He was capped by the county in 1978.
1982 was Yardley's final year as a first-team player. His final first-class match was against Surrey in May (he made 15 and 0), while his last List A appearance came a few weeks later in the John Player League against Kent, where he made just 1. By now he was playing in the seconds all the time, and after another year without a first-team opportunity he called it a day.
In 2002, twenty years after his final match, he left the country and emigrated to Canada with his wife and his son Christopher Yardley. In 2008 he was asked to write part of Imran Khan's biography.

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Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (Canadiens, Maple Leafs, Bruins and Devils), died from lung cancer he was , 58


Patrick Burns [1] was a National Hockey League head coach. Over 14 seasons between 1988 and 2004, he achieved a record of 501-350-161-14 in 1,019 games with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, and New Jersey Devils died from lung cancer he was , 58. Burns retired in 2005 after recurring battles with cancer, which eventually claimed his life.


(April 4, 1952 – November 19, 2010)

Coaching career

Burns was head coach of the QMJHL Hull Olympiques from 1984 to 1987, and of the Sherbrooke Canadiens of the American Hockey League for the 1987–1988 season.
Burns began his NHL coaching career in 1988 with the Montreal Canadiens. Throughout his career, he won three Jack Adams Awards with three different teams - Montreal (1989), Toronto (1993) and Boston (1998). He is the only three-time winner to win in his first year as coach. Burns won the Stanley Cup with the Devils in 2003. After stepping down from coaching the Devils in 2005, Burns became a special assignment coach for the Devils.[2]

Personal life

Before his career in hockey, he was a police officer in Gatineau, Quebec.
In a criminal case brought against two Hells Angels members in 2003, Mr. Burns' name was brought up in court in association with evidence collected by police officers in two separate seizures at the homes of Hells Angels' Donald "Pup" Stockford of the Nomads chapter of Montreal and Walter "Nurget" Stadnick on March 28, 2001. As a result of their investigation, police brought murder and other related charges against Stockford and Stadnick. Derrek King, a member of the Ontario Provincial Police's organized crime squad, testified he found in Stadnick's closet a police bulletproof vest as well as a card congratulating him on 18 years with the bikers. Pat Burns' phone numbers were also found in a telephone book in the home. OPP officer Scott Andrew Mills discovered two notebooks filled with telephone numbers in Mr. Stockford's home, with Mr. Burns' personal numbers including his home, chalet and pager numbers found in each book. In 1994, when Burns was coaching in Toronto, OPP had questioned the coach about his ties with Stadnick, to whom Burns referred as "Wally"; however, Burns continued his association with the two men, appearing in an April 1997-dated photo together with them. Burns, in response to numerous interview requests subsequent to the disclosure that his name had come up in evidence used in a criminal case against the Hells Angels members, gave an exclusive interview to the weekly publication Allo Police, where he claimed to not have known that the men he was associating with were members of the Hells Angels.[3]
Burns survived colon cancer in 2004 and liver cancer in 2005,[4] retiring from coaching after the second diagnosis. In 2009, Burns acknowledged he had been diagnosed with cancer for a third time, this time lung cancer. The cancer was incurable and he decided to forgo further treatment.[5] During an April 2010 interview Burns stated "I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that." Gesturing to a group of local minor hockey players, he said: "A young player could come from Stanstead who plays in an arena named after me. I probably won't see the project to the end, but let's hope I'm looking down on it and see a young Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux."[6]
An arena is to be built to honour Burns' career, at Stanstead College, a private boarding school in the Eastern Townships, and be completed by 2011.[7]
On March 26, 2010, a fan-based Facebook campaign was launched to get Burns inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on the merits of his coaching record, but before he succumbed to cancer. The Let's Get Pat Burns into the Hockey Hall of Fame - NOW! Facebook group attracted over 39,000 members in its first week and received across Canada and the United States.[8] In its second week the number of hockey fans calling for Burns' induction grew to over 54,000. As of October 22, 2010, that number was at 71,307. Nevertheless, the attempts to get Burns into the Hockey Hall of Fame did not succeed as he was not selected for the 2010 class of inductees. He was married to Line Burns.

[edit] Death

It was reported on September 16, 2010, that Burns' health had suddenly deteriorated and that he had returned to his home in Magog, Quebec, to be with his family.[9] Reports surfaced the following day that Burns had died that morning, but Burns' son denied news reports that his father had passed away. That same day, an online report by the Toronto Sun also incorrectly reported Burns' death, but was quickly revealed to be erroneous.[10] Burns himself talked to both English and French media about the incident, denying that he had died and asked that his status be clarified immediately.[11][12]
He died on November 19, 2010, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, at the Maison Aube-Lumière, due to colon cancer which eventually spread to his lungs.[13][14]
Shortly after his funeral, thieves broke into Burns' widow's car, stealing personal belongings, credit cards and numerous pieces of hockey memorabilia, including 30 autographed NHL jerseys that were to be auctioned for charity.[15] Some of the items were later recovered.[16]

[edit] Coaching record

Team Year Regular Season Post Season
G W L T OTL Pts Finish Result
MTL 1988–89 80 53 18 9 - 115 1st in Adams Lost in Stanley Cup Final
MTL 1989–90 80 41 28 11 - 93 3rd in Adams Lost in Second Round
MTL 1990–91 80 39 30 11 - 89 2nd in Adams Lost in Second Round
MTL 1991–92 80 41 28 11 - 93 1st in Adams Lost in Second Round
TOR 1992–93 84 44 29 11 - 99 3rd in Norris Lost in Third Round
TOR 1993–94 84 43 29 12 - 98 2nd in Central Lost in Third Round
TOR 1994–95 48 21 19 8 - 50 4th in Central Lost in First Round
TOR 1995–96 65 25 30 10 - (80) 3rd in Central (fired)
BOS 1997–98 82 39 30 13 - 91 2nd in Northeast Lost in First Round
BOS 1998–99 82 39 30 13 - 91 3rd in Northeast Lost in Second Round
BOS 1999–00 82 24 33 19 6 73 5th in Northeast Did Not Qualify
BOS 2000–01 8 3 4 1 0 (88) 4th in Northeast (fired)
NJ 2002–03 82 46 20 10 6 108 1st in Atlantic Won Stanley Cup
NJ 2003–04 82 43 25 12 2 100 2nd in Atlantic Lost in First Round
Total
1019 501 353 151 14 - - 2003 Stanley Cup

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