Goodbye to Lennie Rosenbluth at the age of 89.
Rosenbluth was the first dominant player in the first few seasons of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball and led North Carolina to an undefeated season in 1957 and the Tar Heels first national championship.
Rosenbluth averaged 27.9 points a game in 1957 and scored twenty points in the 1957 NCAA finals when North Carolina defeated Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain in triple overtime.
Rosenbluth would be the first-round pick of the Philadelphia Warriors in 1958 but averaged only four points a game in two seasons before retiring.
Goodbye to Charles Siebert at the age of 84.
The long-time character actor in the seventies and eighties in both film and television is most remembered for his role as Dr. Stanley Riverside during the entire seven-season run of "Trapper John MD".
Siebert transitioned to directing more than acting after the end of Trapper John and did several episodes on various television shows most often for shows on syndication such as "Xena Warrior Princess" and "Hercules" or shows that often were USA Network original programming like "Silk Stalkings" and Pacific Blue.
Goodbye to Jim Seals at the age of 79.
Seals was the former of the duo "Seals and Crofts" which hit several times with their soft rock sound in the seventies with hits such as "Summer Breeze", "Diamond Girl" and "Get Closer", all of which made the top ten singles list.
Seals were also the brother of the late "England Dan" Seals, who also formed a formidable soft duo with John Ford Coley in the seventies but Seals and Crofts had another noteworthy link to a young Shawn as they were involved in all of the music/soundtrack of the 1977 film "One on One" which starred Robby Benson as a basketball phenom who struggles in the slimy world of big-time college basketball before his heroic finale in winning the big game.
As you likely know already, if it had a ball in a film it was likely that I saw it in the theatres...
Goodbye to Hugh McElhenny at the age of 93.
The Pro Football Hall of Famer was part of the famous San Francisco 49ers "Million Dollar Backfield" in the 1950s with three other Hall members, Y.A Tittle, John Henry Johnson, and Joe "The Jet" Perry.
The Million Dollar Backfield is the only full-house backfield in league history to have each of its members enshrined in Canton.
Voted fourth by NFL Network among the most elusive backs in league history, McElhenny averaged 4.7 yards per carry for his career and would have averaged five yards per carry had he not staggered with two final seasons with the Giants and Lions when he was pretty much finished as a back.
McElhenny made six Pro Bowls, was named to the First-Team All-Pro team five times, was named to the all-1950s team and had his number 39 retired by the 49ers.
Goodbye to Brig Owens at the age of 79.
Owens was drafted by Dallas in 1965 but spent his entire playing career with Washington from 1966-77 and played in every game for the then-Redskins until his final season in 1977.
The safety intercepted thirty-eight passes over his Washington career with eight of those in 1968 but Owens has a record that is unlikely to be broken as in Washington's 72-41 win over the Giants in 1966 (still the highest scoring game in NFL history), Owens scored on an interception return and a fumble recovery with both touchdowns coming from exactly sixty-two yards away.
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