The first is to Grace Lee Whitney of Star Trek fame for her brief run as Yeoman Janice Rand in the series first season.
The character was famous for the electricity between Rand and William Shatner's Captain Kirk,that was so obvious that the producers of the show had to remove Whitney from the show because they knew of the shows that featured Kirk and his various romances and felt that audiences would think he was "cheating" on Rand..
Whitney passed away at 85,
The other was former AWA World Champion wrestler Verne Gagne at the age of 89.
Gagne,who owned the AWA (imagine that) was more than just a pro wrestler and businessman,he was a legitimate athlete in his day as a NCAA champion and Olympic alternate.
When Sports Illustrated did the 50 best athletes in each state's history,Gagne was among them for Minnesota.
Gagne was also known for training several of the top stars in history including Ric Flair among others.
Gagne's promotion was successful for a long time,but when I was able to watch in the mid-80's,it came across as dull and boring with pushed grapplers being basically people that had just graduated from wrestling camp.
Verne Gagne was also known as one of the top known stars across the country from during the 1950's wrestling boom from the old DuPont network and was drafted by the Chicago Bears.
Gagne had struggled in recent years from dementia that essentially robbed him of his memory...
Mike Peluso was always one of my favorite Devils and in his post-hockey career,Peluso has struggled with grand mal seizures,brain issues and head trauma issues.
Peluso recently wrote this article in the Toronto Globe and Mail that describes the suffering that so many enforcers deal with after the game is over.
Tom Gulitti at Fire and Ice takes a look at the Peluso article here.
I've always loved hockey fights and always thought that removing fighting from the game was a bad idea.
Perhaps it's my recent battles with a medium level concussion,but perhaps it might be time to revisit that idea...
The Blood-Horse recently did an article on an old favorite of mine from my days as avid horse racing fan-Summer Squall,the winner of the 1990 Preakness.
Summer Squall's owner Cot Campbell wrote the article paying tribute to his running warrior....
Joe Plum sends us this note from the Washington Post on the increase of the blue crab population from an all time low the previous year.
The number increased 38 percent,but still was not enough to lift the current limitations on the amount of crabs that can be removed by fishermen....
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