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Siegfried of Siegfried and Roy has died. Roy died last year of Covid-19 complications.
How bout that, I had no idea the other one was already dead.
Never recovered after getting bitten by his tiger IIRC
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Longtime home run king Hank Aaron dies at 86
Hank Aaron, known for his sweet swing that carried him to 755 career home runs, which long stood as baseball's golden mark, has died. He was 86.
Hank Aaron was a major figure in American sports, was one of the black pioneers in a white dominated sport, and was the total home run MLB king until Barry Bonds eclipsed him
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@Donsteppa Dead set Harbour legend and innovative coach.
Liked this from the Herald's obit
It was a listing in the Herald that convinced Thorburn that rugby players north of the harbour bridge needed their own union. In 1977 the Herald published the names of trialists for the Auckland U17 rugby team. "There were 117 names and only three from the other side of the bridge,'' he told the newspaper in 2013. -
Did his best work as Super 12 commissioner making sure the best players outside the protected lists were drafted.
Loved some of his innovative tactics. Wasn't it The Great Wall of China tap move, and I seem to recall a 15 man lineout maul.
Was a long time correspondent to Radio Sport (with Telfer IIRC). I fondly remember his labelling of talk back callers The Flat Earth Society.
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Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech in Saved By The Bell, 44 from cancer.
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Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech in Saved By The Bell, 44 from cancer.
Wow. 3 weeks is quick.
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Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech in Saved By The Bell, 44 from cancer.
Wow. 3 weeks is quick.
Yeah, fuck... 44 years old, 3 weeks battle. That's a bit scary.
But, in a way, it sounds like a decent way to go. "Did not suffer" - so, enough time to quit the job, have a final road-trip, saying goodbye to everybody, and tick a few things off a true "bucket list".
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Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech in Saved By The Bell, 44 from cancer.
Wow, I only really watched that show for the girls in it but he was occasionally quite funny in his own right. RIP Screech.
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@dogmeat Pretty sure we had a discussion about putting Alan Sutherland in the All time Mako team.
I don't recall seeing that he passed away last year, but apparently he did. (Someone will probably discover that I posted about it at the time - but, that's not unusual).
Seems like he had a pretty good if somewhat chequered innings. Married a Miss South Africa.
As well as being one of the few NZ forwards to have scored 100 first class tries, he also set a record for the most points scored by a forward on a tour (1968 tour of Oz), which might still stand. He was a pretty decent goal kicker and did the goal kicking on that tour when Fergie McCormick didn't.
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@Chris-B Thanks - didn't realise he had died.
Remember him well: tough as teak. Great era for Marlborough rugby. Simple uncomplicated rugby. Pack of mongrels to win quick ball for a pacey set of backs like Brian Ford. I think they'd have been everyones second favourite team
Always remember the headline in the old 8 o'clock the day they took the Shield. MARLBOROUGH DO A SUNDERLAND!
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@dogmeat I'm presently wading through TP McLean's book of the 1968 AB Tour of Oz and the France tour of NZ (hence me googling Sutherland and discovering to my dismay that he'd died).
It's a bit disturbing how many of the players from that era have passed on - especially in the forwards and in the last 12 months. BJ, Sutherland, Jaz Muller, Sam Strahan - and not long before that Graham Williams, Fergi McCormick, Pinetree....
France lost their first game of that tour to Marlborough - McLean makes a big thing of France being beaten by Marlborough at Blenheim...again.
Battle of Blenheim
Battle of Blenheim fought on 2nd August 1704: The Duke of Marlborough’s spectacular defeat of the hitherto invincible French army of Louis XIV
p.s. As a displaced Nelson kid living in North Canterbury at the time, I didn't celebrate the Marlborough Shield win with anything like the fervour I would today! (At the time it was regarded by those in the know as a disaster).
RIP 2021
