Conservative political journalist Robert Novak died on Tuesday. He had been battling brain cancer. He was 78 years old.
That gives Izzy another 22 points - like he needs it! But it also puts him in the lead for the 'most deaths' side-bet.
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Greg - 6 deaths, 157 points
Jacob - 1 death, 73 points
Jim - 3 deaths, 94 points
A wonderful little Death Pool
2012 Standings
Greg - 5 deaths, 124 pts.
Izzy - 3 deaths, 100 pts.Jim - 1 death, 27 pts.
Jacob - 1 death, 15 pts.
2011 Standings
Izzy - 6 deaths, 231 points
Jacob - 1 death, 73 points
Jim - 3 deaths, 94 points
2010 Standings
Izzy - 5 deaths, 183 points
Greg - 2 deaths, 70 points
Jim - 3 deaths, 68 points
Jacob - 3 deaths, 33 points
Greg - 2 deaths, 70 points
Jim - 3 deaths, 68 points
Jacob - 3 deaths, 33 points
2009 Standings
- Izzy - 5 deaths, 147 points
- Jacob - 3 deaths, 75 points
- Greg - 2 death, 67 points
- Jim - 3 deaths, 34 points
- Dave - 1 death, 24 points
2008 Standings
- Dave - 3 Deaths, 85 Points
- Izzy - 3 Deaths, 81 Points
- Jacob - 3 Deaths, 66 Points
- Greg - 3 Deaths, 65 Points
- Jim - 2 Deaths, 44 Points
| 2010 Death Lists | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim - 68 points | Greg - 70 points | Jacob - 33 points | Izzy - 183 points | ||||||
| Seve Ballesteros | 4/9/1957 | Jeff Conaway | 10/5/1950 | John Wooden | Died - 1 pt. | Zelda Rubenstein | Died - 24 pts. | ||
| Bryant Gumble | 2/29/1948 | Hal Mumme | 3/29/1952 | Barbara Bush | 6/8/1925 | Ruth Bader-Ginsberg | 3/15/1933 | ||
| Ronnie James Dio | Died 33 pts. | Lemmy Kilmister | 12/24/1945 | Mick Mars | 5/4/1951 | Kathryn Joosten | 12/20/1939 | ||
| Billy Graham | 11/07/1918 | Sadaharu Oh | 5/20/1940 | Paul Allen | 1/21/1953 | Maurice Lucas | Died - 58 pts. | ||
| Kim Jong-Il | 2/16/1941 | Fidel Castro | 8/13/1926 | Ariel Sharon | 2/27/1928 | Mohmed Al Megrahi | 4/1/1952 | ||
| Adam Yauch | 08/5/1964 | Nancy Reagan | 7/6/1921 | Brian Setzer | 4/10/1959 | Richard Attenborough | 8/29/1923 | ||
| Nelson Mandela | 7/18/1918 | David Prowse | 7/1/1935 | Rue McClanahan | Died - 24 pts. | Peter Tork | 2/13/1942 | ||
| Dick Clark | 11/30/1929 | Lou Henson | 1/10/1932 | Yitzhak Shamir | 10/15/1915 | Gene Wilder | 6/11/1933 | ||
| Kirk Douglas | 12/9/1916 | Zsa Zsa Gabor | 2/6/1917 | James Garner | 4/7/1928 | John Hartson | 4/5/1975 | ||
| Ed Asner | 11/15/1929 | Muhammad Ali | 1/17/1942 | Phyllis Diller | 7/17/1917 | Eleanor Mondale | 1/19/1960 | ||
| Clarence Clemons | 1/11/1942 | Elizabeth Edwards | Died - 39 pts. | Amy Winehouse | 9/14/1983 | Margaret Thatcher | 10/13/1925 | ||
| Betty Ford | 4/8/1919 | Vaclav Havel | 10/5/1936 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 10/28/1956 | David Hasselhoff | 7/17/1952 | ||
| George Steinbrenner | Died - 20 pts. | Jack Kevorkian | 5/28/1928 | Annette Funicello | 10/22/1942 | Stephen Hawking | 1/8/1942 | ||
| Abe Vigoda | 2/24/1941 | Sid Caeser | 9/8/1922 | Mindy McCready | 11/30/1975 | Steven Tyler | 3/26/1948 | ||
| Sean Connery | 8/25/1930 | King Sihanouk | 10/31/1922 | Harry Morgan | 10/15/1915 | Hamid Karzai | 12/24/1957 | ||
| Tony Curtis | Died 15 pts. | Ken Griffey Sr. | 8/10/1950 | Betty White | 1/17/1922 | Pervez Musharraf | 8/11/1943 | ||
| Steven Jobs | 2/24/1955 | Captain Beefheart | Died - 31 pts. | Robert Byrd | Died 8 pts. | Simon MacCorkindale | Died 58 pts. | ||
| Ronnie Biggs | 8/8/1929 | Lech Walesa | 9/29/1943 | Urban Meyer | 7/10/1964 | Laurent Fignon | DIED 50 PTS | ||
| George Jones | 9/12/1931 | Robert Mugabe | 2/21/1924 | Kareem Abdul-Jabar | 8/16/1947 | Mischa Barton | 1/24/1986 | ||
| Charles Manson | 11/12/1934 | Tiger Woods | 12/30/1975 | Lindsay Lohan | 7/2/1986 | J.D. Salinger | Died - 9 pts. | ||
| Average Age of 2010 Draftees on January 1, 2010 | |||||||||
| 74 Yrs. 236 Days | 72 Yrs. 21 Days | 68 Yrs. 66 Days | 63 Yrs. 136 Days | ||||||
| 2008 Death Lists | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg - 65 pts | Izzy - 81 pts | Dave - 85 pts $125 | Jim - 44 pts | Jacob - 66 pts $25 | |||||
| Suzanne Pleshett | Died 30 pts | Ron Springs | 11/14/1956 | Farrah Fawcette | 2/2/1947 | Fidel Castro | 8/13/1926 | James Garner | 4/7/1928 |
| Bo Diddly | Died 21 pts | John Wesley Jones | 8/4/1958 | Jack Kevorkian | 5/26/1928 | Roger Ebert | 6/18/1942 | Benazir Bhutto | Died 46 pts |
| Eunice Kennedy | 7/10/1921 | Bobby Murcer | Died 38 pts | Osama Bin Laden | 7/30/1957 | Billy Graham | 11/7/1918 | Ghazi al-Yawer | 3/11/1958 |
| Lou Henson | 1/10/1932 | Sherrill Headrick | Died 29 Points | Tony Snow | Died 47 pts | Art Modell | 6/23/1925 | Estelle Getty | Died 16 pts. |
| Betty Ford | 4/8/1918 | Elizabeth Edwards | 7/3/1949 | Kirk Douglas | 12/9/1916 | Ricardo Montalban | 11/25/1920 | Betty White | 1/17/1922 |
| Zsa-Zsa Gabor | 2/6/1917 | Patricia Dunn | 3/27/1953 | Roddy Piper | 4/17/1954 | John Forsythe | 1/29/1918 | Dick Cheney | 1/30/1941 |
| Ariel Sharon | 9/27/1928 | Luis Farrakhan | 5/11/1933 | Terry Jones | 2/1/1942 | Yves Saint Laurent | Died 29 pts | Mr. T | 5/21/1952 |
| Muhammed Ali | 1/17/1942 | Ronnie Biggs | 8/8/1929 | Liz Taylor | 2/27/1932 | Ed McMahon | 3/6/1923 | Sharon Osbourne | 10/9/1952 |
| Nelson Mandela | 7/18/1918 | Stephen Stills | 1/3/1945 | Abe Vigoda | 2/24/1921 | Mike Wallace | 5/9/1918 | Magic Johnson | 8/14/1959 |
| Anette Funicello | 10/22/1942 | Andy Griffith | 6/1/1926 | Claude Levi Strauss | 11/28/1908 | Bob Guccione | 12/17/1930 | Hugo Chavez | 7/28/1954 |
| Mary Travers | 11/7/1937 | Chuck Barris | 6/3/1929 | Charlton Heston | Died 16 pts | Mickey Rooney | 9/23/1920 | Courtney Love | 7/9/1964 |
| Stephen Hawking | 1/8/1942 | Phil Lesh | 3/15/1940 | Dick Clark | 11/30/1929 | Marvin Miller | 4/14/1917 | Walter Cronkite | 11/4/1916 |
| Paul Harvey | 9/4/1918 | Margaret Thatcher | 10/13/1925/td> | Les Paul | 6/9/1915 | Jerry Lewis | 3/16/1926 | Al Under Sr. | 5/29/1939 |
| Jack Klugman | 4/27/1922 | Norodom Sihanouk | 10/31/1922 | Lee Iaacoca | 10/15/1924 | Sid Caesar | 9/8/1922 | Richard Petty | 7/2/1937 |
| Suharto | Died 14 pts | Jesse Helms | Died 14 pts | Danny Bonaduce | 8/13/1959 | Ernest Borgnine | 1/24/1917 | Oral Roberts | 1/24/1918 |
| Omar Abdel-Rahman | 5/3/1938 | Malcolm Glazer | 5/25/1928 | Harold Pinter | Died 22 points | Y.A. Tittle | 10/24/1926 | Danny Aiello | 6/20/1933 |
| Earl Campbell | 3/19/1955 | Mike Peters | 2/25/1959 | J.D. Salinger | 1/1/1919 | Bettie Paige | Died 44 pts. | Carol Shelby | 1/11/1923 |
| Tony Curtis | 6/3/1925 | Maya Angelou | 4/4/1928 | Vera Lynn | 3/20/1917 | George Jones | 9/12/1931 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 3/2/1931 |
| Ken Venturi | 5/15/1931 | Ayatolla Ali Khamenei | 7/17/1939 | Jake Lamotta | 7/10/1931 | Art Linkletter | 7/17/1912 | Studs Terkel | Died 4 pts. |
| George Steinbrenner | 7/4/1930 | Harold Hunt | 6/17/1933 | Britney Spears | 12/2/1981 | Keith Richards | 12/18/1943 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 7/30/1947 |
| 2007 Death Lists | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izzy - 155 Points - $20 | Dave - 48 Points | Jim - 19 Points | Greg - 169 Points - $120 | ||||
| Harold Pinter | 10/10/30 | Jack Kevorkian | 5/26/28 | Fidel Castro | 9/21/26 | Tammy Faye | Died 35 pts |
| Ronnie Biggs | 8/8/29 | Farrah Fawcette | 2/2/47 | Estelle Getty | 7/25/24 | Ariel Sharon | 9/27/28 |
| Suzanne Pleshette | 1/31/37 | Osama Bin Laden | 7/30/57 | Art Buchwald | Died 19 pts | Gerald Ford | Died 7 pts |
| Marcheline Bertrand | Died 44 pts | Sir Edmund Hillary | 7/20/19 | Billy Graham | 11/7/18 | Dan Folgelberg | Died 44 pts |
| Ruth Graham | Died 13 pts | Charlton Heston | 10/4/24 | Luis Farrakhan | 5/11/33 | Evel Knievel | Died 31 pts |
| Craig Thomas | Died 26 pts | Dick Clark | 11/30/29 | Tim Johnson | 12/28/46 | Bill Walsh | Died 25 pts |
| Ladybird Johnson | Died 6 pts | Stephen Hawking | 1/8/42 | Bob Guccione | 12/17/30 | Muhammad Ali | 1/17/42 |
| Phil Rizzuto | Died 11 pts | Boris Yeltsin | Died 24 pts | Ricardo Montalban | 11/25/20 | Lou Henson | 1/10/32 |
| John Forsythe | 1/29/18 | Suzanne Somers | 10/16/46 | Yves Saint-Laurant | 8/1/36 | Nelson Mandela | 7/18/18 |
| Jack Klugman | 4/27/22 | Jerry Lewis | 3/16/26 | Roy Scheider | 10/10/32 | Ken Venturi | 5/15/31 |
| Mike Peters | 10/9/43 | Sharon Osbourne | 10/9/52 | Dick Van Patten | 12/9/28 | Liz Taylor | 2/27/32 |
| Lucianno Pavarotti | Died 29 pts | Courtney Love | 7/9/64 | Mike Wallace | 5/9/18 | Suharto | 6/8/21 |
| Tommy Makem | Died 26 pts | Kirk Douglas | 12/9/16 | Geraldine Ferraro | 8/26/35 | Jesse Helms | 10/18/21 |
| Roddy Piper | 4/17/54 | Abe Vigoda | 2/24/21 | Larry Hagman | 9/21/31 | Norodom Sihanouk | 10/31/22 |
| Mark Felt | 8/17/13 | Ed McMahon | 3/6/23 | Eli Wallach | 12/7/15 | Jerry Falwell | Died 27 pts |
| Gloria Arroyo | 4/5/47 | Don Ho | Died 24 pts | Studs Terkel | 5/16/12 | E. Clay Shaw | 4/19/39 |
| Phil Lesh | 3/15/40 | Manuel Noriega | 2/11/38 | John Glenn | 7/18/21 | Mary Travers | 11/7/37 |
| Roger Ebert | 6/18/42 | Betty Ford | 4/8/18 | Rosalyn Carter | 8/18/27 | Margaret Thatcher | 10/13/25 |
| Dom Deluise | 8/1/33 | Darryl Strawberry | 3/12/62 | Jackie Cooper | 9/15/22 | John Wooden | 10/14/10 |
| Al Unser Sr. | 5/29/39 | JD Salinger | 1/1/19 | George Jones | 9/12/31 | Gary Glitter | 5/1/44 |
| 2006 Death Lists | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izzy: 175 Points - $100 | Dave: 109 Points - $20 | Jim: 42 Points | Greg: 15 Points | ||||
| Lou Rawls | Died 28 pts | Ronnie Biggs | 08/08/1929 | Estelle Getty | 07/25/1924 | Don Ho | 08/13/1930 |
| Dana Reeve | Died 56 pts | Earl Woods | Died 26 pts | Red Auerbach | Died 11 pts | Jack Kevorkian | 05/26/1928 |
| Billy Graham | 11/07/1918 | Charlton Heston | 10/04/1924 | Ricardo Montalban | 11/25/1920 | Liz Taylor | 02/27/1932 |
| Muhammed Ali | 01/17/1942 | Margaret Thatcher | 10/13/1925 | Phyllis Diller | 07/17/1917 | Tammy Bakker | 03/07/1942 |
| Roy Scheider | 10/10/1932 | Gerald Ford | 07/14/1913 | Coretta King | Died 22 pts | Mary Travers | 11/07/1937 |
| Boris Yeltsin | 02/01/1931 | Evel Knievel | 10/17/1938 | Jesse Helms | 10/18/1921 | Jerry Lewis | 03/16/1926 |
| Ladybird Johnson | 12/22/1912 | Aaron Spelling | Died 17 pts | Dear Abby | 07/04/1918 | Jerry Fallwell | 08/11/1933 |
| Al Lewis | Died 18 pts | Zsa Zsa Gabor | 02/06/1919 | Augusto Pinochet | Died 9 pts | Shelley Winters | Died 15 pts |
| Ariel Sharon | 09/27/1928 | Dick Clark | 11/30/1929 | Nelson Mandela | 07/18/1918 | Charles Manson | 11/12/1934 |
| BB King | 09/16/1925 | Sharon Osbourne | 10/10/1953 | Jane Wyman | 01/04/1913 | Jack Klugman | 04/27/1922 |
| David Crosby | 08/14/1941 | Ron Santo | 02/25/1940 | Fidel Castro | 08/13/1926 | Stephen Hawking | 01/08/1942 |
| Paul Hunter | Died 73 pts | Tom Baker | 01/20/1934 | Larry Hagman | 09/21/1931 | Tom Schneider | 05/12/1936 |
| Ahmed Chalabi | 10/30/1944 | Kirk Douglas | 12/09/1916 | George Jones | 09/12/1931 | Marcel Marceau | 03/22/1923 |
| Mickey Rooney | 09/23/1920 | Abu al-Zarqawi | Died 61 pts | Ike Turner | 11/04/1931 | Abe Vigoda | 02/24/1921 |
| Pat Burns | 04/04/1952 | Art Linkletter | 07/17/1912 | Kenny Baker | 08/24/1934 | Don Rickles | 05/08/1926 |
| Betty Ford | 04/08/1918 | Joseph Barbera | Died 5 pts | Ed Asner | 11/15/1929 | Calvert DeForest | 07/23/1921 |
| Max Baer, Jr. | 12/04/1937 | Walter Cronkite | 11/04/1916 | Arthur Clarke | 12/16/1917 | Dom Deluise | 08/01/1933 |
| Ed McMahon | 03/06/1923 | Manuel Noriega | 02/11/1938 | Olivia DeHavilland | 07/01/1916 | Jim Nabors | 06/12/1930 |
| E. Clay Shaw | 04/19/1939 | Lee Iacocca | 10/15/1924 | Y.A. Tittle | 10/24/1926 | Artie Johnson | 01/20/1929 |
| Ethel Kennedy | 04/11/1928 | Little Richard | 12/05/1932 | Roy Horn | 10/03/1944 | Keith RichardsKeith Richards | 12/18/1943 |
1 comment:
Geez - can we trade picks? Anyone want odds on whether Izzy's top 5 die this year? Is this fun for anyone else besides Izzy?
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