Red Is Dead Baby, Red is Dead

A sad day in Boston as Red Aurebach, coach and owner of the Celtics Died at the age of 89.

Some of his accomplishments:

• Coached Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1966 winning nine championships, including a stretch from 1959 to 1966 when the Celtics won eight straight NBA championships.
• In 20 years as a coach, he won 938 regular season games, a record that would stand until Lenny Wilkens broke it in the 1994-95 season.
• Led Boston to 99 playoff victories, fourth all-time behind Phil Jackson, Pat Riley and Larry Brown.
• Finished with nine NBA championship rings, later tied by Phil Jackson
• NBA Coach of the Year in 1965.
• Coached 11 Hall of Famers.

Congats to Jim and his 11 points

'tis the Season?

Could it be? Is it really true? After 4 months of circling the buzzards were getting tired and hungry. Thanks to the unselfishness of Celtics coaching legend Red Auerbach, who died yesterday at the age of 89, the buzzards now go into the holiday season with full bellies, and Jim with an additional 11 points.

In the spirit of Christmas, The Great Pumpkin, and the brotherhood of mankind, let's hope and pray for no additional deaths from our list this year. Of course if such a tragic event should occur, let them all be on my list.

Death Pool Dilemma

A famous television star died recently and although he was not chosen by anyone in the Circling Buzzards, his death brings up an interesting point. The star I am referring to is named Moose but you know him best as 'Eddie', the Jack Russell terrier from the hit show Frasier.

Moose was 16 years old at the time of his death - that's 112 in dog years. And that is the potential dilemma. In the future is it okay to draft famous animals and if so how do we calculate the points?

Moose died last week and he could have been worth 84 or -12 points for someone.

Thanks for the lead, Aaron!

Aaron Spelling died today at the age of 83. Spelling was the richest man in Hollywood, and is credited with producing pretty much everything we watched on television in our younger years. While he will be remembered for shows such as Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Mod Squad, Starsky and Hutch, T.J. Hooker and Hart to Hart, I will remember him most as the man with the ugliest daughter in show business.

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi (don't call me Kareem) Killed in Air Raid

Is he really dead, or just hanging out with Jimmy Hoffa and Elvis? Either way the 61 points Dave gets for his reported death are the greatest number of points received from any one death in the entire history of our death pool (a whopping 1.5 years).

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's leader in Iraq who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings, has been killed in an air strike, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday, adding that his identity was confirmed by fingerprints and a look at his face. It was a major victory in the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the broader war on terror.