Charlie Hustle went to that great clubhouse in the sky Monday. He died unattended in his La Vegas home. No cause of death was given, though it’s known he had cardiac procedures done. He was 83. Pete Rose’s life contained…
It’s never a surprise, or at least shouldn’t be, when someone goes on at the age of 93. Father Time, after all, is undefeated. But this one really hurts. As actuarially sound as the event may have been, my wife…
Willie Mays died the other day at the age of 93. He was the oldest living Hall of Fame major league ballplayer. His first MLB manager, Leo Durocher of the New York Giants, called him simply the greatest five-tool player…
News that Lou Conter, the last survivor of Japan’s attack on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, died at age 102 reminds us that the generation that fought in the most destructive war in history is fading away. Conter was…
Politics is tough on principled people, just as it was on former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who passed away Wednesday at 82 years old. The rough and tumble of Athenian democracy bred the idea that whatever you can persuade people…
Country music giant Toby Keith died peacefully of stomach cancer Monday in his native Oklahoma. He was 62. He’s survived by his wife, Tricia, and three children. His family was with him at his death. Keith was a country megastar,…
Last month I had a feeling that something terrible had happened to one of my most beloved former girlfriends, Sherri Schultz. I looked for her on the internet and saw that she’d recently died. A couple of weeks before her…
For most of my long-vanished youth, I watched very little television. But in my late twenties, when I was a teacher and a resident preceptor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, I began to watch more TV in…
I learned about the television industry the hard way as a kid. One Monday night in 1968, I turned on the TV to watch my favorite show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. For three and a half years, I’d enjoyed the…
