Caspar is now OFFICIALLY a ghost! (Though his friendliness factor may remain in dispute)

Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger died today at the age of 88 of high fever and pneumonia brought on by old age, according to his obituary. Let's face it, this obit has been written for a long time, with a fill-in-the-blanks cause of death just waiting to be pencilled in.

I wonder if the Iran-Contra scandal will be brought up at the pearly gates?

Wednesday correctly predicted this passing, and for her troubles, gets 12 points. (see scoring page for updates)

WHAMMY! Tomarken's Luck Pressed Beyond Limit

For those of you who remember the old game show Press Your Luck, Peter Tomarken was the clean-cut All-American host who ran a tight ship. Season after season, Peter had to endure the antics of those incorrigible show-stealing Whammies.

Sadly, Peter, 63, and his wife Kathleen died today in a plane crash in Santa Monica Bay.

The Game Show Network plans to air a Press Your Luck marathon this coming Sunday as a tribute. Nobody at DW2K6 got Big Bucks for predicting this accident.

Miss Deaf DEAD Texas: Killed By Train

Hard to believe but true.

CNN's coverage tells the sad story of Tara Rose McAvoy, 18.

It just goes to show that even crazy hotness will not save you from my clutches.

I'm wondering if this wasn't a suicide, as you'd think a deaf woman would feel a TRAIN coming?

Tara's tragic passing was not eligible to be chosen for DWK26.

Actress Maureen Stapleton dead at 80

I was a huge fan of Maureen Stapleton's portrayal of the sexually liberated Ma Kelley in the mob spoof classic Johnny Dangerously. Here's a classic sound clip from the movie.

She also played a pretty decent Grandma in one of Wednesday's favorite guilty pleasure movies, Addicted to Love.

When not being confused with Gene Stapleton (of All in the Family fame), Maureen actually had a hell of a career. Nobody at DW2K6 foresaw this passing.

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Current Scores/All Lists Repository

LAST EDITED: 2/9/2007 Corrected some final scores, corrected rankings.

CURRENT SCORES:
1. Roger Mortis 77 (2006 WINNER)
2. Kane 70
3. Kato Katonian 53
4. Filthy Chowd 52
5. The Crippler 48
6. Suicide By Douche 41
7. GrimReaper 40
8. Deathstrodamus 27
9. The Shadow 26
9. Boston Strangler 26
11. Wednesday 12
12. O raio 7
12. CLAX 7
12. BadAssDan 7

DEATHLISTS:

Wednesday's Deathlist (12)
Sherwood Schwartz
Billy Graham
Lindsey Lohan
John Goodman
Andy Rooney
Scott Weiland
James Garner
Rip Taylor
John Paul Stevens
Howard Metzenbaum
Margaret Thatcher
Muhammad Ali
Frank Gifford
John Forsythe
Vern Troyer
Art Linkletter
Dick Cheney
Caspar Weinberger DEAD: 12
Lee Iacocca
John Madden

BadAssDan's Deathlist: (7)
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Jean Stapleton
Dick Clark
George W. Bush
Richard Dawson
Darryl Strawberry
BB King
Doc Severinsen
Mikael Gorbachev
Ross Perot
Charles Nelson Reilly
Meat Loaf
Don Ho
Bob Newhart
David Crosby
George Wendt
Ed Asner
Loretta Swit
Ned Beatty
Randy Poffo aka Randy "Macho Man" Savage

CLAX's Deathlist: (7)
Michael Jackson
Oprah
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Elizabeth Taylor
Pete Doherty
Courtney Love
Tommy Lee
Kevin Federline
Hugh Hefner
McCauley Culkin
Fidel Castro
Bob Barker
Mick Jagger
Paris Hilton
Michael J. Fox
Donald Rumsfeld
Mike Tyson
Ricky Martin
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7

Filthy Stinking Chowd's Deathlist: (52)
William Perry
Vern Troyer
Charlotte Rae
Jill Eikenberry
Gary Busey
Jack Klugman
General Pervez Musharaff
Soupy Sales
Jan-Michael Vincent
Margot Kidder
Graham Nash
LaToya Jackson
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Bum Phillips
Ron Jeremy
Billy Preston DEAD: 41
Kate Moss
James Frey
Kim Cattrall
Red Auerbach DEAD: 11


Kato Katonian's Deathlist: (53)
Conrad Bain
James Best
Joey Bishop
James Brown DEAD: 27
Sid Caesar
Ann B. Davis
Kirk Douglas
Peter Falk
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Andy Griffith
Charlton Heston
Don Knotts DEAD: 19
Harvey Korman
Al Molinaro
Harry Morgan
Jim Nabors
Charlotte Rae
Nancy Reagan
Jean Stapleton
Jonathan Winters

Roger Mortis' Deathlist: (77)
Muhammad Ali
Fats Domino
Kirk Douglas
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Billy Graham
Don Ho
B.B. King
Jack Klugman
John Madden
Peter O’Toole
Augusto Pinochet DEAD: 9
Tom Sizemore
Margaret Thatcher
Kurt Vonnegut
Charlie Watts
Betty White
Jonathan Winters
Boris Yeltsin
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi DEAD:61
Ayman al-Zawahiri

Boston Strangler's Deathlist (26):
Kylie Minogue
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Ozzy Osbourne
Muhammad Ali
Elizabeth Taylor
Jan-Michael Vincent
Don Knotts DEAD:19
Courtney Love
Whitney Houston
Bobby Brown
Dick Clark
Kirk Douglas
Fidel Castro
Annette Funicello
Verne Troyer
Shane McGowen
50 cent
Jimmy Carter
Robert Downey Jr
Eddie Van Halen

O Raio's Deathlist: (7)
Stan Musial
Tom Jones
Fats Domino
Dick Cheney
Neil Young
Brian Wilson
Todd Bridges
George Bush, Sr.
Muhammed Ali
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Michael J. Fox
Earl Scruggs
Michael Jackson
Whitney Houston
Paul Newman
Kirk Douglas
Walter Cronkite
Stephen Hawking
Dakota Fanning
Robert Downey, Jr.

The Shadow's Deathlist: (26)
Mickey Rooney
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Charlotte Rae
Horatio Sanz
Ruby Dee
Ruth Buzzi
Edward Albee
Lauren Bacall
Elizabeth Taylor
Doris Day
Robert Altman DEAD: 19
Dick Van Dyke
George Jones
Chuck Berry
Leon Redbone
Dick Cheney
Lindsay Lohan
Pele
Andy Griffith
Abe Vigoda

GrimReaper's Deathlist: (40)
Allan Melvin
Russell Johnson
Harry Morgan
Jack Klugman
Karl Malden
Dick Van Patten
Fyvush Finkel
Louie Anderson
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Edward "Ted" Kennedy
Coretta Scott King DEAD:22
Dick Cheney
Robert Byrd
Bob Feller
George Allen "PAT" Summerall
Arnold "Red" Auerbach DEAD:11
Tom Sizemore
Courtney Love
David Crosby
Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Deathstrodamus' Deathlist: (27)
B.B. King
Willie Mays
Muhammed Ali
Earl Campbell
Joe Namath
Liz Claiborne
Osama Bin Laden
Desmond Tutu
Louis Farrakhan
Chuck Berry
Bo Diddley
James Brown DEAD: 27
Lee Majors
Neal Schon
Eddie Van Halen
Michael Stipe
Taime Downe
Don Imus
Richard Greico
Kellen Winslow Jr.

The Crippler's Deathlist: (48)
Harry Morgan
Jack Abramoff
Nichelle Nichols
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Billy Preston DEAD: 41
Fidel Castro
Kylie Minogue
Kirk Douglas
Sterling Marlin
Alain Robert
Tommy Lasorda
Billy Graham
Jerry Lewis
Don Ho
Rocco DiSpirito
Charles Lane
Muhammad Ali
Courney Love
Tara Reid

Suicide By Douche's Deathlist: (41)
Ray Bradbury STILL ALIVE, NAME WITHDRAWN
John Madden
Liza Minnelli
Joe Walsh
Bob Barker
Peter Falk
Maynard Ferguson DEAD:22
Michael J. Fox
Jon Lovitz
Ted Kennedy
B.B. King
Mary-Kate Olsen
Don Knotts DEAD:19
Courtney Love
Horatio Sans
Sean Preston Spears-Federline
Al Davis
Art Modell
Dick Clark
Dick Feagler

KANE's Deathlist: (70)
Don Knotts DEAD:19
Abe Vigoda
Carl Reiner
Conrad Bain
Betty White
Bea Arthur
Tom Bosley
John Forsythe
Harry Morgan
Wayne Knight
John Goodman
Dom Deluise
Jack Palance DEAD:13
Courtney Love
Nick Nolte
Phyllis Diller
Gerald Ford DEAD: 7
Saddam Hussein DEAD: 31
Joe Paterno
Kevin Federline

MLB HOF Kirby Puckett dies from complications of a stroke: age 45

Hard to frigging believe. This guy could theoretically still be playing (like say, Julio Franco) but instead, Kirby passed away today after having a stroke over the weekend. Obituary courtesy of the New York Times.

Puckett was a guy who not a lot of people thought looked like a major leaguer, but he was a great all-around player during my high school and college years, playing and often beating the Indians, all the while remaining a guy who was fun to watch. He was so fun to watch because you could tell that he was out there having a frigging blast, almost as though he was one of us who got to play for an MLB team for a week. It had to be supremely frustrating to have his fantastic career cut short by an eye problem. Despite his early exit, Puckett was a first-ballot Hall of Fame selection in 2001.

The dude had some problems in the past couple of years, both health concerns and trouble with the law, which was sad to see. That's not for me to judge, because I don't know the details. I just know he was one of my favorite players to not play for the Tribe.

It's a damn shame. Nobody predicted this, I don't think...I didn't even check the lists yet.