Mosi Tatupu dies a Former Patriots fullback

Mosi Tatupu has died at the age of 54, according to several news reports.

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin said Tatupu, a native of America Samoa who played 13 seasons for the Patriots, died Tuesday.

The cause of death was unknown Tuesday. Tatupu suffered from high-blood pressure and other ailments, the Star-Bulletin said. “He had some health issues,” said Barry Markowitz, a family friend who was told of the death by Tatupu’s ex-wife, Linnea. The Patriots selected Tatupu in the eighth round with the 216th pick of the 1978 NFL Draft. He played for the Patriots from 1978 to 1990, and made the 1986 Pro Bowl as a special teams player. Tatupu was one of the most popular Patriots players of his era, with a cheering section called “Mosi’s Mooses.” His survivors include Seattle Seahawks Pro Bowl linebacker Lofa Tatupu, who starred at KP High and was coached by his dad.

Mosi’s son Lofa plays now for the Seattle Seahawks. Tatupu, from America Samoa, is held as one of the best athletes ever from Hawaii, playing 13 NFL season with the Pats, a former star Trojan.

Born in Pago Pago, Mosi Tatupu went to school in Hawaii where he broke a 17 year state record.

Tatupu suffered from high blood pressure, according to the newspaper said. A friend told the Star-Bulletin Tatupu last night that “he has some health issues.” The friend, adds the paper Tatupu had been informed of the death of former Pro aimed his ex-wife.

Mosi Tatupu was a fan favorite with the Patriots playing for New England from 1978 to 1990. It was named for the Patriots 50th Anniversary team this last fall as a special strong team structure.

Tatupu suffered from high blood pressure, according to the newspaper said. A friend told the Star-Bulletin Tatupu last night that “he has some health issues.” The friend, adds the paper Tatupu had been informed of the death of former Pro aimed his ex-wife.

Mosi Tatupu was a fan favorite with the Patriots playing for New England from 1978 to 1990. It was named for the Patriots 50th Anniversary team this last fall as a special strong team structure.

2 Students Shot At Middle School In Littleton, Colorado

Littleton Colorado Middle School is located at 9201 W. Columbine Dr. in Littleton, Jefferson County. It offers grades 7-8 and 525 students attend.Two students were shot and wounded at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton CO this afternoon and the suspected shooter – an adult male – is in custody, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s department.

Mark Techmeyer, spokesman for the sheriff’s department, said the two juveniles have been transported to a hospital where they are in stable condition

Two teenagers were victims in a shooting at Dry Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colorado that was carried out by an adult male Tuesday afternoon. So far, the media is not sure if the shooter is a twenty-something or a forty-something, but he was said to be wearing camouflage pants.

A witness told Fox 31 news the gunman opened fire on some students waiting for the bus after school when a teacher tackled him to the ground. That gunman is in custody. Authorities say a female student sustained a gunshot wound to the chest. The other victim, a male student, was shot in the arm. Both were taken to Littleton Adventist Hospital with non-life threatening wounds. One was listed in serious condition, the other in fair condition.The kids shot do not appear to be in serious condition.

Teachers tackled and subdued a man armed with a high-powered rifle just after he shot two teenage students Tuesday at a suburban Denver middle school that’s just miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, authorities said.

The seventh-grade math teacher who tackled the suspect, David Benke, is a 6-foot-5-inch former college basketball player who has taught at the school for about 10 years, his wife Sandra Benke, told KUSA-TV. Other teachers quickly piled on the gunman, the station reported.

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Jack Brisco Dies at 68

Young and talented, Jack Brisco was one of the most popular and successful wrestlers of the 1970s and 1980s. The Oklahoma native gained fame, respect and various titles throughout the wrestling world due to his hard-working attitude, professionalism, and most importantly, a vast knowledge of wrestling maneuvers including his famous trademark “Figure Four.”

The fans loved him for his youthful good looks, sportsmanlike approach to the sport, and his overwhelming skill inside the ring. Promoters loved him because he drew big crowds (especially during his two NWA World title reigns) and because of his professionalism. Other wrestlers liked working with Jack because, quite simply, he was one of the best wrestlers in the business.

whatever the cause of Jack Brisco death, we should give a high honor for his lifetime achievement in wresting. Just to remember what Jack Brisco had, he was a 2-time NWA Heavyweight Champion and also formed a well renowned tag team with his brother Gerald.

In the old days, for the most part, “good guys” were “good guys,” with relatively uncomplicated names and personas. It doesn’t get much more straightforward than “Jack Brisco.” He was a regular guy in regular tights fighting all these evil dudes in sheik costumes and masks and what not.

OK, big confession, I had a Planet of the Apes “astronaut” doll, who, when stripped down to his blue doll underwear was a proxy for Mr. Brisco. So, there. I played with dolls. But it was guy “rasslin’” dolls and not baby dolls or anything like that. I mean, who hasn’t launched Luke Skywalker from the top of a bedpost to (hopefully) land on The Joker? I know I have.

J.D. Salinger Dead: 'Catcher in the Rye' Author Dies At 91

The Greta Garbo of literature,” died yesterday of natural causes at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire. He was 91. The celebrated author chose to spend the last half-century of his life in virtual seclusion, guarding his privacy with such fervor that he only succeeded in fanning the flames of public curiosity.  As Paul Alexander put it in his book Salinger

Jerome David Salinger was raised in New York and began writing fiction as a student. The New Yorker rejected seven of his stories before finally publishing one just before the US entered World War II and Salinger was drafted.

The Catcher In the Rye’s protagonist and narrator is Holden Caulfield, a disaffected 17-year-old who, in what was slightly revolutionary for its time, talked (and narrated!) like a disaffected 17-year-old. The book pretty much just follows Caulfield as he wanders around New York after being expelled from prep school. Salinger acknowledged that the novel was semi-autobiographical, and his ability to channel the internal monologue of a bright-but-alienated kid made the book essential reading for generations of high school students.

Salinger soon moved on to what he considered his life’s work: the Glass family. The half-Jewish half-Irish brood of brilliantly precocious children (“the Glasses were a bunch of insufferably ’superior’ little bastards that should have been drowned or gassed at birth” is how Buddy Glass paraphrases a popular criticism) who all grew into impossibly fucked-up adults were the subjects of everything else Salinger wrote while he was still publishing.

Mr. Salinger’s literary representative, Harold Ober Associates, announced the death, saying it was of natural causes.

Published in 1951, “The Catcher in the Rye” became Mr. Salinger’s most famous work with its distinctive depiction of its angry, iconoclastic teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Mr. Salinger frequently dealt with the subject of precocious youth in his short stories of the Glass family, as well as “Franny and Zooey,” a collection of two long short stories. He had not published a new work since 1965, and lived in near-total isolation, having refused the attention of the literary world and the news media for decades.

Gummadi Venkateswara Rao Dies

Gummadi Venkateswara Rao is a versatile character actor in sociopolitical and mythological movies. 26th of January, 2010 died at Care hospital,Hyderabad. He acted in nearly 500 Movies and last Movie is Dharma chakram.

Gummadi Venkateswara Rao one of the popular veteran actor in telugu film industry known as Gummadi was born in 1927 in Guntur District. He was awarded the prestigious Raghupathi Venkaiah Award by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Popular veteran actor Gummadi passed away. He was 83 years old and was admitted to hospital after he complained about chest pain. Gummadi Venkateswara Rao popularly known as Gummadi was born in 1927 in Guntur District. He entered the silver screen with his first movie titled Adhrusta Deepudu in 1950 and is known to have acted in more than 500 movies.

He was admitted into the hospital as he turned severely ill. Both his kidneys were failed and followed by that, it resulted in multi organ failure. Gummadi was earlier affected with paralysis but got convalesced fighting with it. He appeared last in the movie ‘Kasinayana’ in 2008 while his first movie was Adrushta Deepudu in 1950. He was born on 9th July 1927.

Nancy Kerrigan’s drunken brother kills father

Emergency crews were sent to the home Sunday morning where they found Nancy’s father, Daniel Kerrigan, unresponsive. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

As for Nancy’s 45-year-old brother Mark Kerrigan — MyFoxBoston.com reports that during the Sunday incident, there was a struggle between Daniel and Mark in the kitchen area of the home. Details of the fight are sketchy at best — but Mark was eventually arrested and charged with assault and battery on an elder with serious bodily injury.

Mark Kerrigan is scheduled to appear in court sometime this morning.

Nancy — who is married with 3 kids — lives roughly ten minutes from the home where the incident occurred.

The incident comes almost 16 years from the morning she was attacked in a plot orchestrated by skating rival Tonya Harding.

Wife Brenda Kerrigan told the Boston Herald it was nothing but a heart attack, but that certainly doesn’t mean there was “nothing suspicious about the death.” It’s to be expected that a mother would protect her child in this circumstance. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take CSI to make the connection between Mark Kerrigan’s drunken bum rush and Daniel Kerrigan’s demise. Oh, and Brenda Kerrigan is legally blind.

“He put his hands around his father’s neck and his father fell to the floor”

And authorities also say that Mark Kerrigan thought Daddy Daniel Kerrigan was “faking it.” Perhaps the blood on the floor and the shattered telephone (a la Joe Pesci to the head in “Casino”) should have been clues. It may have been a beating worth of Jeff Gillooly (Tonya’s stooge) on Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Olympic Games. They may need payday loans to replace the telephone is what I’m saying – but then again, I’d never exploit tragedy for the sake of business.