Cleaning out the Inbox

Time for work on the inbox with a few interesting notes accumulated recently.

One of my all time favorite hockey stars that passed away last year,Bob Probert was found to have had the brain condition Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy before his death.
Probert donated brain tissue to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy for research.
This research will go a long way into making games both safer and could eventually change the games themselves,which could be good or bad depending on the changes.
In any event,no game is worth life changing or ending damage.

Farewell to Washington Post columnist David Broder,who passed at the age of 81.
Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Watergate scandal in 1973.
Broder had become a regular television pundit on the various networks through the years,most notably on NBC's Meet the Press.

Goodbye to former Seattle Pilot and boxing trainer Greg Goossen at the age of 65.
The colorful Goossen also spent time in Hollywood as a character actor.
Goossen is most noted here for his appearances in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four.
Goose,I guess he had to consider the source....

I know little about Duff McKagan musically,but his ESPN column encouraging Sacramento Kings fans to rise up now before the chronically immature Maloof brothers abscond their team to Anaheim is dead on.
McKagan offers a look at Seattle since the loss of the Sonics and discusses the pain of losing a team is more than just sports....

As McDonald's continues to attempt to transition into more than "fast food",one person has been less and less visible-one Ronald McDonald.
More and more coffee and other "high falutin" offerings have sent Ronald into the background.
Note to parents,if you are influenced by your children to eat at McDonald's more than you should because of Ronald,you are the problem,not the damn clown.

Ronald's gang might still be the most profitable food business in the world,but Subway is the new king in one area.
Last year,Subway passed McDonald's in number of units and become the largest food franchise in the world in that statistic.
If Subway just added a drive through system,McDonald's would really be worried!

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