Neil Dougherty, American basketball coach (TCU) died he was , 50.

Cornelius Aaron "Neil" Dougherty  was an American basketball coach, most recently the head coach at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas died he was , 50.. Dougherty played basketball at West Point for two years under coach Mike Krzyzewski before transferring to Cameron University, where he played his final two years and earned his degree in 1984.

(April 14, 1961 - July 5, 2011)

Assistant coaching career

Dougherty began his coaching career in 1984 at Cameron, where he served as an assistant until 1988. He then moved on to take similar positions at Drake, Vanderbilt and South Carolina. He was an assistant of Roy Williams at University of Kansas for many years. He also served under Head Coach Eddie Fogler at Vanderbilt and South Carolina. In 1990 under Fogler and Dougherty, Vanderbilt won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).

TCU

On March 25, 2002, Dougherty was hired as the 18th head coach at TCU, replacing Billy Tubbs. Because Dougherty's defensive-minded approach clashed with Tubbs' up-tempo, high scoring approach, the team struggled to adjust in his first year, winning just nine games. The next year they improved by three wins, with the season's highlight coming with a nationally-televised 25-point victory over 10th-ranked Louisville, coached by Rick Pitino. In 2004–2005, the Horned Frogs finished 21–14, advancing to the quarterfinals of the National Invitational Tournament.
However, after losing star guards Corey Santee and Marcus Shropshire to graduation, the Frogs failed to build on the NIT momentum and stumbled to a 6–25 record in 2005–2006. This caused many TCU boosters and local media figures to question whether or not Dougherty was the right person for the job. His 2006–2007 team made strides, finishing 13–17, but the season also included an eleven-game losing streak, which did little to quiet Dougherty's critics. Dougherty was fired by TCU on March 16, 2008 after six seasons, only one of which had a winning record.^[2]

Record as Head Coach

Season	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Postseason
2002–03	TCU	9–19	3–13	-
2003–04	TCU	12–17	7–9	-
2004–05	TCU	21–14	8–8	NIT Quarterfinals
2005–06	TCU	6–25	2–14	-
2006–07	TCU	13–17	4–12	–
2007–08	TCU	14–14	6–9	–
All seasons		75–106	30–66

Death

Dougherty was in Indianapolis working for IHoops, a joint venture between the NBA and NCAA that promotes youth basketball. On July 5, 2011, Dougherty went jogging and never returned. His body was identified on July 8, 2011.^[3]

 

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Armen Gilliam, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks), died from a heart attack he was , 47

Armen Louis Gilliam nicknamed "The Hammer", was an American professional basketball player who played 13 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1987–2000  died from a heart attack he was , 47. He also played one season (2005–06) for the Pittsburgh Xplosion of the American Basketball Association.
Gilliam was also a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III head coach for Penn State Altoona from 2002–2005.

(May 28, 1964 – July 5, 2011)

Life and career

Gilliam began his college basketball career in 1982-83 at Independence Junior College in Independence, Kansas. That year, Gilliam was a standout player on the basketball team that reached the Junior College Finals and finished 6th in the nation. Gilliam averaged 24.9 points and 14 rebounds in five tournament games and was named to the National Junior college finals all-tournament team.
Gilliam continued his college basketball career with UNLV. Gilliam played for UNLV from (1983–87)and was an integral part of a team that was 93-11 in the 3 years he played for the UNLV Rebels. The UNLV team was ranked number one in the country for most of the three years Gilliam competed and the team made it to the NCAA tournament every year during his stay. In 1987 the team reached the "Final Four and Gilliam was named to the NCAA Final Four all-tournament team. Gilliam scored 998 points in his senior year which was and still is a school record for the most points scored in season by a UNLV player. Gilliam also played on the U.N.L.V team that won 38 games in a season which is still a N.C.A.A. Division 1 record for most wins in a season. In 1987 Gilliam was selected for a number of All-American Teams and voted the top contender for the John Wooden award. While at UNLV, teammate Frank James gave him the nickname "The Hammer" after seeing Gilliam's biceps combined with his pounding action under the basket. Gilliam said, "He knew I was from a steel town, too. I think that was a factor." The Los Angeles Times dismissed the notion that he got the name from a baking powder, Arm & Hammer.^[1]
Gilliam was selected to play on the 1986 USA Basketball Team. This team fielded college stand outs likes: David Robinson, Kenny Smith, Tommy Amaker, Tom Hammonds, Charles D. Smith and Derrick McKey. The 1986 USA basketball team, led by head coach Lute Olson of Arizona, proceeded to shock the world with its play. The international community did not consider the team a medal-contender, but they advanced to the championship game and competed against the heavily favored Russians for the gold medal. Overcoming great odds, they won the 1986 World Championships and left Madrid Spain with golden memories.
Gilliam was the second pick in the first round of the 1987 NBA draft. As a rookie Gilliam was named to the all-rookie team (first team) in 1988 while playing for the Phoenix Suns. He went on to play 13 years in the NBA. Gilliam averaged 20 points and 9 rebounds for the Charlotte Hornets, played three years with the Philadelphia 76ers, and played three years with the New Jersey Nets, where he averaged between 12 to 18 points and 6 to 9 rebounds a game.
Among other awards Gilliam was inducted into the Bethel Park Hall of Fame for the Sport of Basketball in 1997 and the UNLV Hall of Fame in 1998. He was selected to the Division 1 All- American Team in 1987 and was a finalist for the John Wooden award the same year. He was honored in 1996 for scoring 10,000 points during his NBA career. In November 2007, his college jersey (#35) was retired at half-time of the UNLV vs. Wasburn University game in Las Vegas.
In the 2001 Gilliam was named head coach of Penn State McKeesport's men's basketball team, which played at the junior college level.^[2] In his first year as a head coach, he helped lead the team to a regular season record of 12-7. The team played well in the playoffs and reached the conference finals. The next year Gilliam accepted the Head Men’s coaching position at Penn State Altoona, where he coached from 2002 to 2005.^[3] He had a couple of unsuccessful seasons as their head coach.
Gilliam came out of retirement in 2005 and was a player/coach for the Pittsburgh Xplosion of the ABA. Gilliam played and coached the Xplosion which finished in the top 6 out of the 48 teams in the A.B.A. Gilliam averaged 23.8 points a game and 9.1 rebounds and earned a spot on the Eastern conference all-star roster. Gilliam was named the all-star game MVP for 2006 after scoring 32 points and grabbing 15 rebounds at the BankAtlantic Center in Florida.

Name spelling

Towards the end of his NBA career he altered the spelling of his first name from "Armon" to "Armen" because he was tired of it continually being mispronounced. At the time, he was quoted as saying: "Most people pronounced it Ar-MON. I've been correcting people so long that I got tired of it. I just thought that if I put the 'e' in there, it would make it a lot easier to pronounce. I'm not Muslim. It's not religious or anything like that."^[4]

Death

Gilliam collapsed during a basketball game at the LA Fitness gym in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, on the evening of July 5, 2011.^[3] He was rushed to St. Clair Hospital, in nearby Mt. Lebanon, where he was pronounced dead of a heart attack.^[5]

 

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Fonce Mizell, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers) died he was , 68.

The Mizell Brothers were a record producing team in the 1970s, consisting of Larry Mizell (February 17, 1944, NYC, New York) and Alphonso "Fonce" Mizell  died he was , 68..

(January 15, 1943, NYC, New York - July 5, 2011, Los Angeles, California)

History

Larry earned a degree in engineering and Fonce Mizell earned a degree in music from Howard University. While there they formed and performed in a jazz vocal quartet, the Vanlords. In the early 1970s, Larry and Fonce Mizell moved to California to start their own company, Sky High Productions. They went on to produce albums for Blue Note Records that set the tone for jazz fusion and the era. The Mizell Brothers often used the same musicians on their albums, including Harvey Mason on drums, Melvin "Wah Wah Watson" Ragin and David T. Walker on guitar, Chuck Rainey on bass and Jerry Peters on piano. Freddie Perren and Chuck Davis were sometimes involved as co-writers or co-producers.
Later hits of Sky High Productions include A Taste Of Honey's platinum-selling roller-rink anthem of 1978 "Boogie Oogie Oogie", L.T.D.'s "Love Ballad", a number 1 R&B hit (#20 pop) in 1976 and Mary Wells' dance funk 12-inch "Gigolo" in 1982. Younger brother Rodney Mizell co-wrote some of their songs, although most material initially was written by Larry Mizell, later joined by Fonce. They also included a number of Motown hits on Donald Byrd's albums including "Just My Imagination" and "Dancing In The Street". In the 1980s, the Mizell brothers retired from the record industry, but returned in the 2000s. Larry Mizell wrote and performed vocals on the song "Play With The Changes" on the 4Hero album of the same name in 2007.

Larry

As an electrical engineer, Larry Mizell performed testing and reliability work on the Lunar Module for the NASA Apollo program. He was one of the first to do research on liquid crystals, which today are used for example in displays (LCD).

Alphonso

Alphonso Mizell was a member of The Corporation, the Motown hit-making production team that wrote and produced all of The Jackson 5's essential early hits from 1969 through 1971, including "I Want You Back," "ABC," "The Love You Save," "Mama's Pearl," and "Maybe Tomorrow." The Corporation also consisted of Motown founder Berry Gordy plus writer-producers Deke Richards, who brought Fonce to the company, and Freddie Perren, a classmate of the Mizells at Howard who also later worked for Sky High Productions.
When Motown moved to Los Angeles, the Mizells joined up with trumpet player Donald Byrd under whom they had studied while at Howard University. Their first album, Black Byrd on the Blue Note label, was the first of a string of albums together that would define fusion jazz and lay the foundation for acid jazz and neo soul. Alphonso died on July 5, 2011. He was 68 years old. The cause of death is heart failure. ^[2]

Discography

Year	Artist	Album	Label	Tracks Produced
1972	Donald Byrd	Black Byrd	Blue Note Records	Entire Album
1973	Donald Byrd	Street Lady	Blue Note	Entire Album
	Bobbi Humphrey	Blacks and Blues	Blue Note	Entire Album
	The Miracles	Renaissance	Motown Records	Wigs And Lashes & Don't Let It End ('Til You Let It Begin) (Co-Produced with Freddie Perren)
	The Jackson 5	Skywriter	Motown	Hallelujah Day & Ooh, I'd Love To Be With You (Co-Produced with Freddie Perren)
	Michael Jackson	Music & Me	Motown	With A Child's Heart & Up Again (Co-Produced with Freddie Perren)
	Jermaine Jackson	Come Into My Life	Motown	You're In Good Hands (Co-Produced with Freddie Perren)
	Elaine Brown	Elaine Brown	Black Forum	Entire Album (Co-Produced with Freddie Perren)
1974	Donald Byrd	Stepping into Tomorrow	Blue Note	Entire Album
	Bobbi Humphrey	Satin Doll	Blue Note	Entire Album
	The Blackbyrds	The Blackbyrds	Fantasy Records	Entire Album
	Johnny Hammond	Gambler's Life	Salvation Records	Entire Album
	Edwin Starr	Hell Up in Harlem	Motown	Entire Album (Co-Produced with Freddie Perren)
	Brenda Lee Eager	When I'm With You	Mercury Records	When I'm With You (7" Single)
	Margie Evans	Waterfalls	Buddah Records	Waterfalls (7" Single)
1975	Donald Byrd	Places and Spaces	Blue Note	Entire Album
	Bobbi Humphrey	Fancy Dancer	Blue Note	Entire Album
	Johnny Hammond	Gears	Milestone Records	Entire Album
	Gary Bartz	The Shadow Do	Prestige Records	Entire Album
	Michael Jackson	Forever, Michael	Motown	I'll Come Home To You (Co-Produced with Freddie Perren)
1976	Donald Byrd	Caricatures	Blue Note	Entire Album
	L.T.D.	Love To The World	A&M Records	Entire Album
	Roger Glenn	Reachin'	Fantasy	Entire Album
1977	Gary Bartz	Music Is My Sanctuary	Capitol Records	Entire Album
	The Rance Allen Group	Say My Friend	Capitol	Entire Album
1978	A Taste of Honey	A Taste Of Honey	Capitol	Entire Album
1979	A Taste of Honey	Another Taste	Capitol	Entire Album
1981	Mary Wells	In And Out Of Love	Epic Records	Gigolo

 

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Mika Myllylä, Finnish cross country skier, 1998 Olympic gold medalist died he was , 41

Mika Kristian Myllylä was a Finnish cross country skier who has competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold (1998: 30 km), one silver (1994: 50 km), and four bronzes (1994: 30 km, 4 × 10 km; 1998: 10 km, 4 × 10 km) died he was , 41. Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning four golds (1997: 50 km, 1999: 10 km, 30 km, 50 km), three silvers (10 km + 15 km combined pursuit: 1997, 1999; 4 × 10 km relay: 1997), and two bronzes (10 km: 1995, 1997).

(September 12, 1969 – July 5, 2011)
 
He was on his way to become one of the greatest stars in cross country skiing history, until he was caught doping in the Finnish 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships scandal for taking hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a blood plasma expander usually used to cover up the use of erythropoietin (EPO) in athletes. The scandal also affected five other Finnish skiers, including Jari Isometsä and Harri Kirvesniemi. Myllylä received a two year suspension from the FIS as a result. In connection with a 2011 court case, Myllylä gave a sworn statement where he admitted using EPO in the 1990s, during his career.^[2]
After the suspension Myllylä tried to return to skiing, but he did not have as much success as he had before his break, despite him winning a few Finnish championships. Myllylä retired in 2005. After retirement Myllylä has been in the news for many alcohol-related problems.^[3] On July 5, 2011 Myllylä was found dead at his home in Kokkola. The police do not believe that foul play was involved.^[4]

 

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Theodore Roszak, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), died from cancer he was , 77.

Theodore Roszak was professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay.^[1] He is best known for his 1969 text, The Making of a Counter Culture died from cancer he was , 77.

(November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) 

Background

Roszak received his B.A. from UCLA and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, and San Francisco State University before joining CalState Hayward.^[2] During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the pacifist newspaper Peace News.^[3]
Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California on July 5, 2011.^[4]

Scholarship

Roszak first came to public prominence in 1969, with the publication of his The Making of a Counter Culture^[5] which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s.
Other books include include Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, The Voice of the Earth (Touchstone Books), The Cult of Information, The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science, The Voice of the Earth, and Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth. With his wife Betty, he was co-editor of the anthology Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women.
His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema Flicker (Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books). His most recent novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman.

Awards and honors

• New York Open Center in 1999 for his "Prescient and Influential Analysis of American Culture"
• Guggenheim Fellow and was twice nominated for the National Book Award.^[2]
• Tiptree Award for The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Scholarship

Non-fiction

• The Dissenting Academy (1968)
• The Making of a Counter Culture (1969)
• Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women (1969)
• Where the Wasteland Ends (1972)
• Sources (1972)
• Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness (1975)
• Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society (1979)
• From Satori to Silicon Valley (1986)
• The Cult of Information (1986)
• Fool's Cycle/Full Cycle (1988) ISBN 0-931191-07-6.
• The Voice of the Earth (1992)
• The Gendered Atom (1999)
• Kanner, Roszak, & Gomes. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Sierra Club Books (1995) ISBN 0-87156-406-8
• World Beware! American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror (2006, ISBN 1-897071-02-7)
• The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation. (2009) New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0865716612

Essays

• "Birth of an Old Generation"
• "When the Counterculture Counted
• "Raging Against the Machine: In its '1984' Commercial, Apple Suggested that its Computers Would Smash Big Brother. But Technology Gave Him More Control." Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2004.

Fiction

• Pontifex (1974)
• Bugs (1981)
• Dreamwatcher (1985)
• Flicker (1991)
• The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995)
• The Devil and Daniel Silverman (2003)

 

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John Sweet, American actor (A Canterbury Tale) died he was , 95.

John Sweet  was a US Army sergeant serving in the UK in World War II when he was selected by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to play the role of Sgt. Bob Johnson, one of the three pilgrims, in the 1944 feature film, A Canterbury Tale died he was , 95..

(February 8, 1916 – July 5, 2011)

Sweet was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

After the movie, he went back to the United States and made a few attempts at an acting career, notably in theater, but finally decided to go back to his original profession, teaching.
Sweet returned to Canterbury in October 2000 [1] to join Sheila Sim for a Michael Powell celebration and gave a 20-minute interview in the documentary A Pilgrim's Return by Nick Burton and Eddie McMillan. This documentary is featured in the Criterion Collection DVD of the film. The soft-spoken Sweet provides details about the shooting of the movie, his relationship with Michael Powell and the rest of the crew, and the effect the film has had on his life. Sweet stated that "The few months I spent making the film were the most profound and influential of my life".
Sweet was paid $2,000 for working on A Canterbury Tale, all of which he donated to the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), a remarkable gesture for the time.^[1]
John died, at home in Fearrington, North Carolina on July 5, 2011.^[2]

 

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Gordon Tootoosis, Canadian actor (Pocahontas, Legends of the Fall) and activist, died from pneumonia he was , 69.

Gordon Tootoosis, CM  was a Canadian actor of Cree and Stoney descent died from pneumonia he was , 69.. He was a descendant of Yellow Mud Blanket, brother of the famous Cree leader Pitikwahanapiwiyin.^[1] He was acclaimed for his commitment to preserving his culture and to telling his people's stories. He served as a founding member of the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. Tootoosis offered encouragement, support and training to aspiring Aboriginal actors. He served as a leading Cree activist both as a social worker and as a band chief.

(October 25, 1941 – July 5, 2011)



He was awarded membership in the Order of Canada on October 29, 2004.^[2] The investiture ceremony took place on September 9, 2005. His citation recognizes him as an inspirational role model for Aboriginal youth. It notes that as a veteran actor, he portrayed memorable characters in movie and television productions in Canada and the United States.^[2]

Biography

Gordon Tootoosis was raised with his 13 siblings in the Plains Cree tradition until he was taken from his home^[why?] and placed in a Catholic residential school, where he was treated harshly and forbidden to speak his own language. His father, John Tootoosis, was an activist for aboriginal rights, which got the younger Tootoosis into trouble at school.^[1]
After his traumatic school years, Tootoosis went into social work, specializing in work with children and young offenders. His interest in his own cultural traditions led him to become an accomplished native dancer and rodeo roper, and he toured with the Plains InterTribal Dance Troupe in the 1960s and 1970s throughout Canada, Europe and South America, becoming one of North America's most popular powwow announcers.^[1]
His father was one of the founders of the National Indian Brotherhood and former head of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN). Gordon himself served as the chief of his band and as a vice-president of FSIN. Tootoosis was married to Irene Seseequasis since 1965. They have three daughters and two adopted sons. After their daughter Glynnis died of cancer in 1997, they took the responsibility of raising her four children in Saskatoon.^[3]
Tootoosis died on July 5, 2011, aged 69, after being hospitalized for pneumonia at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon.^[4][5]
His funeral and interment were held on the Poundmaker Cree Nation Reserve. ^[6]

Acting career

His first acting role was in the film Alien Thunder (1974), with Chief Dan George and Donald Sutherland. He portrayed Albert Golo in 52 episodes of North of 60 in the 1990s. He is best known to British audiences for playing the Native American Joe Saugus, who negotiates the purchase of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet series 3 (2002). Gordon appeared in the CBC Television mini-series By Way of the Stars with Eric Schweig as Black Thunder and Tantoo Cardinal as Franoise. Tootoosis starred with Russell Means in Disney's Pocahontas (1995) and Song of Hiawatha (1997). In 1999, he and Tantoo Cardinal became founding member of the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. In 2011, he appeared in Gordon Winter at the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon and Prairie Scene in Ottawa, his first stage role in 15 years.^[7]
He won a Gemini Award for his work on the animated show Wapos Bay: The Series and was nominated twice for his work on North of 60.

[edit] Selected filmography

• Alien Thunder (1974) — Almighty Voice
• Stone Fox (1987) — Stone Fox
• Black Robe (1991) — Old Aenons
• Leaving Normal (1992) — Hank Amaruk
• By Way of the Stars (1992 TV mini-series) — The Cree Chief
• North of 60 (1992, TV series) — Albert Golo
• The Call of the Wild (1993) (TV) — Charlie
• Hawkeye (1994)
• Legends of the Fall (1994) — One Stab
• Pocahontas (1995) — Kekata (voice)
• Lone Star (1996) — Wesley Birdsong
• Crazy Horse (1996) — Akicita
• Alaska (1996) — Ben Quincy General Store
• Song of Hiawatha (1997) — Iagoo
• Keeping the Promise (1997)- Chief Saknis
• The Edge (1997) — Jack Hawk
• due South: Easy Money (1998) (TV)- Quinn
• Pocahontas: The Legend (1999) — Chief Powhatan (Wahunsonacock)
• Reindeer Games (2000) — Old Governor
• Dream Storm: A North of 60 Mystery (2001) (TV) — Albert Golo
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2002) — Joe Saugus
• Now & Forever (2002) — Ghost Fox
• Dreamkeeper (2003) (TV) — Kills Enemy
• Smallville (2004) (TV) — Joseph Willowbrook
• Into the West (2005) (TV) — Growling Bear
• Shania: A Life in Eight Albums (2005) — Greey Twain
• Hank Williams First Nation (2005) — Adelard Fox
• Open Season (2006) — Gordy (voice)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) — Red Cloud
• Out In The Cold (2008) — Soft as Snow
• Wapos Bay: The Series (2005–2010) — Mushom (voice)
• Blackstone (2011)

 

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