Sports obituaries

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Orlando McDaniel, a WR who had a cup of coffee with the 1982 Denver Broncos, died 3/27 at age 59.

McDaniel made his mark in college sports, being a star in both football and track at LSU.

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Colby Cave, a center for the Edmonton Oilers this abbreviated season, died on 4/11 at age 25.

Cove's NHL career began with 3 games for the Bruins in 2017-18. He split the 2018-19 season between Boston and Edmonton.

Dave Miedema

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Goldie Sellers, a DB/KR who played for 4 seasons in the old AFL, died on 3/28 at age 78,

Sellers missed only 1 game in 4 seasons, split evenly between the Broncos and the Chiefs. He was a rookie in 1966, and ended up his career winning a Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs, who defeated the Vikings 23-7 in SB4.

Dave Miedema

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Tavaris Jackson, who played 9 seasons as a QB (mainly as a back-up) died on 4/12 at age 36. The cause of death was a car accient.

Wearing #7 fo his entire career, Jackson played for the Vikings from 2006-10. He then joined the Seahawks in 2011, then was out for a year, returning to them for 2013-15, including Seattle's SB48 winning team.

Dave Miedema

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Steve Dalkowski, a legendary minor league flamethrower in the Orioles system in the late 1950s/early 1960s, died on 4/26 at age 80 due to COVID19.

Dalkowski threw some of the strongest heat in pro baseball history, but also was very terrible at control and command of his pitches. His career inspired the producers of Bull Durham to insert one of the main characters of the movie, Nuke Laloosh.

Dave Miedema

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Jerry Sloan, a Pro Basketball HoFer who had a decades-long love affair with pro basketball, died on 5/22 at age 78.

One of the top defensive players of his era, Sloan's playing career began in 1965-66 with the Baltimore Bullets. The following season found him taken by the Bulls in the expansion draft, and he spent the next 10 seasons playing rough and tough defense for the team which, for most of his time there, was a perennial contender

Sloan began his NBA coaching career with the Bulls, starting in 1979-80 and staying on the job until the team fired him in the middle of the 1981-82 season. After a few years off, he came aboard with the Utah Jazz, taking the role of an assistant coach beginning in 1985, and filling it until early in the 1988-89 campaign, when he was promoted to Head Coach. There he stayed through the 20110-11 season, and, near the end of his career, was named to the Pro BSKB HoF for his coaching career in 2009.

The saddest factor of his career in the NBA in both roles was that he never played on nor coached a team that won the NBA Championship. His closest chances ended in the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998, where his Jazz team was defeated in the Finals by the Chicago Bulls, with the two Bulls Finals wins capping off their second Three-Peat.

Dave Miedema

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[QUOTE=sox83cubs84;412932]Jerry Sloan, a Pro Basketball HoFer who had a decades-long love affair with pro basketball, died on 5/22 at age 78.

One of the top defensive players of his era, Sloan's playing career began in 1965-66 with the Baltimore Bullets. The following season found him taken by the Bulls in the expansion draft, and he spent the next 10 seasons playing rough and tough defense for the team which, for most of his time there, was a perennial contender

Sloan began his NBA coaching career with the Bulls, starting in 1979-80 and staying on the job until the team fired him in the middle of the 1981-82 season. After a few years off, he came aboard with the Utah Jazz, taking the role of an assistant coach beginning in 1985, and filling it until early in the 1988-89 campaign, when he was promoted to Head Coach. There he stayed through the 20110-11 season, and, near the end of his career, was named to the Pro BSKB HoF for his coaching career in 2009.

The saddest factor of his career in the NBA in both roles was that he never played on nor coached a team that won the NBA Championship. His closest chances ended in the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998, where his Jazz team was defeated in the Finals by the Chicago Bulls, with the two Bulls Finals wins capping off their second Three-Peat.

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John Zook, a DE who played from 1969-79 in the NFL, died on 6/6 at age 72.

Zook, who appeared in 1 Pro Bowl, spent his first 7 years in the NFL with the Falcons, and the last four with the Cardinals.

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Ed Farmer, a RHP normally used in relief and who pitched for 8 different MLB teams, died on 4/2 at age 70. Cause of death were complications after a previous illness..

Farmer has been a radio voice with the White Sox for close to 3 decades, both as the play-by-play man and as the color commentator.

His best season also came as a White Sox pitcher, earning 30 saves and making the AL All-Star team.

The recipient of a kidney transplant in 1991, Farmer became a voice for organ donations.

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Damaso Garcia, a 2B best remembered for his 7 seasons with Toronto, died 4/15 at age 63.

Garcia was the Blue Jays' regular second sacker from 1980-86, appearing in 2 All-Star Games, and being the first Blue Jay player ever to steal at least 50 bases in one season.

Garcia first had brief stints in 1978 and '79 for the Yankees. In 1988 he played in the NL for the first time as a member of the Braves, and finished his MLB career in 1989 with the Expos.

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