Goodbye to Rodney Rogers at the age of 54.
Arguably the second-best player (after Tim Duncan) in the history of Wake Forest basketball, Rogers was a lottery selection (ninth overall) in the 1993 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets after winning the ACC Player of the Year award the previous season.
Rogers would play twelve seasons in the NBA for seven teams and would win the Sixth Man of the Year award in 2000 with the Phoenix Suns.
Rogers had been paralyzed from the neck down since a dirt bike accident in 2008.
Goodbye to Elden Campbell at the age of 57.
The all-time leading scorer for the Clemson Tigers, Campbell was named All-ACC three times in the late 1980s before being drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round, where he played for the first nine years of his fifteen-year career.
Campbell led Clemson to the only regular-season ACC title in the program's history and is the surprising answer to a question: Who scored the most points for the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1990s?
Goodbye to Dave Morehead at the age of 82.
Morehead was one of a group of pitchers that the Boston Red Sox hoped could return to contention in the early sixties, but were not part of the eventual Impossible Dream team in 1967.
Morehead pitched for the 1967 American League champions but was not a key contributor, finishing 5-4 in ten starts.
Morehead fired a no-hitter at Fenway Park for Boston over Cleveland in 1965 in a game attended by only 1,200 fans.
Goodbye to Steve Taneyhill at the age of 52.
Known for his long ponytail and his homerun swing touchdown celebration, Taneyhill set the South Carolina record for passing yards and led the Gamecocks to the first bowl victory in their history with a 1995 CarQuest Bowl win over West Virginia.
Taneyhill spent two seasons on the Jacksonville Jaguars' practice squad but never appeared in a game for them.
Goodbye to Steve Regal at the age of 73.
Often remembered as the "other" Steven Regal," Mr Electricity" held the NWA and AWA's light heavyweight titles, and with "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin, held the AWA tag team titles, defeating the feared Road Warriors in a match with tons of outside interference.
Regal would later wrestle for the NWA and WWF as a preliminary wrestler after Garvin and Regal's title reign ended with a loss to Scott Hall and Curt Hennig.
Regal was the son-in-law of the star wrestler of the Golden Age, Wilbur Snyder.
Goodbye to Jawann Oldham at the age of 68.
The second round pick of the Denver Nuggets in 1980 from the University of Seattle, Oldham would play until 1995, playing for eight teams as a backup big man known for his shot blocking and defense.
Oldham would later play a key role in starting the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean professional leagues.
Goodbye to Rags to Riches at the age of 21.
The first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in over a hundred years was in the 2007 edition.
Rags to Riches also won the Kentucky Oaks and would win the Eclipse Award for Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.
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