Goodbyes to Mitchell,Charles and Hernandez

Time to say some goodbyes to those that have recently left us,but first a note from the work front.
Looks like a nutty schedule through most of July,if not all.
I am going to take the occasional day off,but still far more work than average.
I work tonight,off tomorrow and then work twelve days in a row.
For those of you counting that is 44 working days of a possible 46.....

Goodbye to my favorite Cavalier of the Ted Stepien era of Cleveland basketball as Mike Mitchell passed away at the age of 55 after fighting cancer for two years.
Mitchell was the first round pick of the Cavaliers in 1978 from Auburn and averaged 22 points a game in a career that saw him spend three and a half seasons in Cleveland before another poor trade sent Mitchell to San Antonio where he would spend the remainder of his career that ended in 1988 at just 32 years old.
Mitchell would play another twelve in the Italian leagues.
I'll always remember that sweet jump shot and being the only shining light in a dim time period for the Cavaliers....

Goodbye to former CNN sports host and boxing announcer Nick Charles at 64.Nick Charles was the mainstay of CNN"s Sports Tonight which battled Sports Center throughout the 1980's and 1990's for highlight supremacy.
I always preferred the Charles/Fred Hickman team with other talent such as Vince Cellini to the ESPN offerings for the most part as they seemed to be so much more professional as well as loving the games.
Charles had been battling bladder cancer for the last few years that had cut back his boxing schedule.
Boxing had always been Charles first love and he always called a good fight.
Nick Charles will be missed....

Goodbye to former Junior Lightweight and Lightweight champion Genaro Hernandez at 45.
"Chicanito" passed on from a rare disease called rhabdomyosarcoma,which attacks muscle fibers.
Hernandez lost his two biggest fights (his only two losses) to Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather,but always showed class in both victory and defeat.
Hernandez had worked for various networks as one of the punch counters on televised fights as well as for the Top Rank boxing promotion....

Seems that the insidious disease known as cancer has had a big month.
Our best to all the fans and families of all three men....