Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 85. His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death: “His loss
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Etta James, whose assertive, earthy voice lit up such hits as “The Wallflower,” “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” and the wedding favorite “At Last,” has died, according to her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. She was 73. She died from complications from leukemia with her husband, Artis Mills, and her sons by
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Just one month after marrying his longtime girlfriend, former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Chris Draft is now mourning the loss of his wife. On December 27, LaKeasha Rutledge-Draft lost her battle to cancer. In a video posted from the November ceremony, the bride, ailing and in a wheelchair, is seen dancing with Draft, smiling and laughing
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PHILADELPHIA — He beat Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, battled him nearly to the death in the Thrilla in Manila. Then Joe Frazier spent the rest of his life trying to fight his way out of Ali’s shadow. That was one fight Frazier never could win. He was once a heavyweight champion,
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Family of Slain Howard University Student Alonzo Guyton Make Emotional Appeal : MyFoxDC.com
A five-minute sex tape showing Tupac receiving oral sex while rapping and dancing has surfaced … and TMZ has seen it. The tape, shot in 1991, begins with a bunch of groupies in a living room during a house party. Tupac walks into the room with his pants down to his ankles, his shirt off
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Carl Gardner, original lead singer of the R&B group the Coasters, has died in Florida. He was 83. Gardner’s wife Veta said her husband died Sunday at a Port St. Lucie hospice following a long bout with congestive heart failure and vascular dementia. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
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“Macho Man” Randy Savage, a professional wrestler who became a fan favorite thanks to his outlandish outfits and trademark catchphrase, died Friday in a car wreck, according to TMZ. The 58-year-old Savage reportedly suffered a heart attack while driving his 2009 Jeep Wrangler in Tampa, Fla., and careened across lanes of oncoming traffic before colliding
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Bobby Robinson, the founder of one of the first rap labels, Enjoy Records, and the first record man to sign a bonafide hip-hop act from the streets of the Bronx — Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five — died Saturday at the age of 93. I was lucky enough to be able to meet and
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Gregory Isaacs, the dancehall legend nicknamed Cool Ruler whose 1982 album Night Nurse made him one of the most popular Jamaican reggae exports of the late ’70s and ’80s, has died. Isaacs succumbed at his London home at the age of 59 after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. With his silky smooth singing and
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