Falling Behind

By this time last year, there had been four deaths in the Circling Buzzards - Lou Rawls, Shelly Winters, Coretta King and Al Lewis. This year we only have three deaths so far. Of course I am sure Greg would like to point out that it is Dave that is holding the Buzzards back. I prefer to remain neutral. But next year I'm putting both Dave and Greg on my list as there could be a duel in the near future.

Hey, they'll both be worth 60 points!

A Wasted #5 Pick for Jim

DETROIT -- A recovering Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will visit Detroit next month as part of the group's annual "Saviour's Day" observance.

Farrakhan, who last visited Detroit in November 2005, will speak at Ford Field on Feb. 25.

A Wasted #1 Pick for Greg

Tammy Faye Bakker reports in a December 2006 Christmas note on tammyfaye.com that:

"I'm doin' okay"

A Wasted #1 Pick for Jim

Castro health improves, regains weight.

Cuban President Fidel Castro is well enough to get out of his hospital bed and has started putting on weight again, according to an interview published in an Argentine newspaper yesterday.

The 80-year-old leader has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in late July, handing power temporarily to his brother Raul.

Photos in leftist daily Pagina 12 showed a thin-looking Castro wearing a dressing gown. He told Argentine journalist and lawmaker Miguel Bonasso: "I lost 41 pounds (20 kilograms), but I'm putting weight back on already almost half of what I lost."

In his first media interview since the surgery, Castro said he was still able to give orders. "I can still talk pretty loudly if I want to," he was quoted as saying.

A Wasted #3 Pick for Dave

The consensus of the weakness of Dave's picks are only supported by the following story from CNN:

Farrah Fawcett's doctor says she is cancer-free
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/02/people.farrahfawcett.ap/index.html