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image source Make Some Noise from the HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO Adam Nathaniel Yauch was a founding member of hip hop trio the Beastie Boys, also known by his stage name, MCA. "It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam "MCA" Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys ... passed away in his ...

Today is a very sad day for soccer with news that Livorno's Piermario Morosini suffered a heart attack on the pitch and has died. The former Italy under 21 international who was on loan at Livorno and playing in the Italian Serie B, collapsed in today's game against Pescara. Morosini was taken to the hospital after it was suspected that he suffered a ...

R.I.P. - Giorgio Chinaglia ::  January 24, 1947 – April 1, 2012

*This is the Whitney Houston I choose to remember via abcnews.com Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the ...

via USSoccer CHICAGO (Feb. 7, 2012) – Former U.S. Men’s National Team defender Harry Keough, one of the key players on the U.S. squad that upset England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84 at his home in St. Louis. “We are all saddened by the loss of such an important man in the history of U.S. Soccer,” ...

image source via the guardian The Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty, who stepped down as the club's chairman in October after a decade in the role, has been found dead at his home in Lincolnshire. Doughty, who was 54, was discovered in the gym at his home in Skillington on Saturday. He is believed to have died from natural causes and ...

**Updated** Post title has "1000s" when it should be "100s" - sorry, fat-fingered that one. via the guardian (Reuters) - Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a deputy minister called [it] the biggest disaster in the nation's soccer ...

image source via LA Times: A family member of Don Cornelius arrived at his Mulholland Drive home in Encino on Wednesday morning and found the "Soul Train" creator with a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said. He was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to law enforcement sources. His death is ...