MINNEAPOLIS (AP news): Mudcat Grant (Jim “Mudcat” Grant), the first Black 20-game winner in the American League and a key part of Minnesota’s first World Series team in 1965, has died. He was 85. The Twins announced Grant’s death Saturday…
Lloyd Price, the ‘50s R&B vocalist whose early singles were among the first to attract attention from the nascent rock ‘n’ roll audience, died Thursday. He was 88. Maxwell Entertainment owner Rickey Poppell posted the news on Facebook, saying, “My friend…
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won,…
Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later, he was so disgusted after losing a decision to Sugar Ray…
Born Neville O’Riley Livingston, but known professionally as Bunny Wailer, was born on 10 April 1947, and he died on 2 March 2021. He was one of the original members of the Jamaican Reggae group “The Wailers.” Bunny was a…
Former NASA astronaut William Thornton, who used his inventions to measure and combat the ill-effects of microgravity while onboard two space shuttle missions. NASA reported Thornton’s death on Thursday (January 14). “NASA is saddened to learn of the loss of former…
Paul Westphal was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019 after an illustrious career as a player and coach. The Hall of Fame player won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and later coached in the league and college,…
K.T. Oslin, a country music singer, and songwriter who came to fame with her anthem “80’s Ladies,” has died, according to a statement from the Country Music Association. She was 78. Oslin became the first woman to win the CMA…
Charley Pride, a 2000 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a three-time Grammy winner, Pride, was not the first country performer to cross racial lines: Harmonica player Deford Bailey was an early featured artist on the Grand…
Terry D. Porter, Writer’s Guild of America agent and founder of The Terry Porter Agency, died Monday, December 7, of heart failure in Sun City West, AZ. His wife, Claire Hutchinson, announced Terry D Porter’s death. Since 1990, Porter was…
Former MVP Dick Allen, one of baseball’s most feared hitters in the late 1960s and a star in Philadelphia and Chicago, died Monday at his home in Wampum, Pennsylvania, his family announced on Twitter. A seven-time All-Star, Allen was dominant…
Diego Maradona, the mop-haired boy from a Buenos Aires slum who dribbled and dazzled his way to world fame, becoming one of the greatest soccer players of all time but also one of the most self-destructive, has died. Maradona died…
