Rat packer Joey Bishop dies at age 89
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Comedian Joey Bishop, a member of the Rat Pack led by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford, has died at age 89, his longtime friend and publicist Warren Cowan said on Thursday.
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Hilly Kristal, the founder of the punk rock club CBGB which discovered The Ramones and Patti Smith, dies.
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Juan Francisco Fresno, the cardinal who played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, has died, Roman Catholic Church authorities said. He was 90.
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Ken Caminiti, a former National Baseball League most valuable player who in 2002 admitted he used steroids, has died in New York at the age of 41.
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CHARLOTTE, United States  - Complications from a lung disease may have contributed to the death of gridiron great Reggie White, who died on Sunday at the age of 43, a preliminary autopsy report said.
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Syd Thrift, who spent nearly 50   years in professional baseball, has died following knee   replacement surgery, officials said Tuesday. He was 77.
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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Leonard Lindquist, who helped the NFL players organize their first union, died last week. He was 92.
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Northwestern University football coach Randy Walker died of an apparent heart attack Thursday night. He was 52.
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Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75.
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Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in night clubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatraâs boisterous Rat Pack, has died at his Newport Beach home, his publicist said Thursday. He was 89.
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Frank Mathers, who won eight American Hockey League Calder Cup titles as a player, coach and executive, died at 80.
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CHICAGO  - Howard Keel, who sang and  danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of  colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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Spencer Dryden, drummer for the San Francisco rock band the Jefferson Airplane, died of cancer Tuesday in Petaluma, Calif. He was 66.
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Georgia Frontiere, the St. Louis native who became a hometown hero when she brought the Rams of the National Football League from Los Angeles in 1995, died Jan. 18. She was 80.
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Brett Favre, 38, and the 32-year-old receiver Donals Driver are rarities on the Packers, two of the oldest hands on a roster that, as of opening day, was the youngest in the N.F.L.
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Skorich died late Saturday night with an apparent infection after undergoing recent heart-valve surgery.
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NEW YORK - It was a brush with death that still has Lance Aaron shuddering. The 60-year-old Brooklyn man was driving home when a 40-foot-long container flew off a flatbed truck and fell on top of his moving car, crushing it. He survived with just minor injuries.