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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on January 04, 2002, 04:48:00 PM
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This is a little late. Schaap passed away a couple of weeks ago.
I haven't been watching television all that much and didn't catch the news. When I did bother to turn on ESPN in the early Sunday mornings, I went directly to the Sports Reporters to hear Schaaps views. He'll be missed, I'm certain.
http://msn.espn.go.com/classic/obit/s/2001/1019/1266418.html (http://msn.espn.go.com/classic/obit/s/2001/1019/1266418.html)
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While posing for a photograph with Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Cousy and George Mikan during a 1992 reception unveiling Madison Square Garden's Walk of Fame, "a crowd gathered, drawn by the three stars, and I couldn't resist turning to our audience and saying, 'Do you realize that among the four of us, we've had twenty thousand and 10 women?' Everyone laughed, except the three guys I was standing with. Mikan and Cousy informed me that they had had only one each. But Wilt was more upset. 'Hey, Dick,' he said, 'that book is two years old.'"
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For the longest time, The Sports Reporters was the only thing that got me up earlier than NFL kickoff on Sundays. I knew he was ill because he hadn't hosted it in so long, but had no idea how serious it was until I heard he died over Christmas.
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He was my brother's girlfriend's father. As a consummate namedropper, he would have appreciated that.
It had been bad for several months, then they thought he was gonna make it.
She was in training to be a "non-denominational minister" -- basically the qualification to work hospitals and Red Cross missions -- when Sept. 11 hit. Being in NYC, she got a "field commission". Pretty fckin' rough year.