Guess who died in 2025

[MFS62]

Wink Martindale game show host 91
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/stor ... CmzcEa_6IQ

Later

[TransMonk]

Tic Tac Dough was my favorite game show from childhood. RIP

[Edgy MD]

There haven't been a lot of guys named "Wink" since his heyday.

[Edgy MD]

Up there in the rafters of Madison Square Garden hangs the number 12, honoring two-time champion Dick Barnett and his sweet jumper.

Like Gil Hodges, Dick was a native of Indiana, but became as New York as Times Square, earning a PhD from Fordham and becoming a faculty member at St. John's. He rocked Adidas.

[MFS62]

He'd yell, "Fall back, baby" when he took his jump shot because he knew it was going in.
RIP

Later

[Edgy MD]

Matching up with Barnett for a little one-on-one on the way to the hereafter is Stan Love, four-year NBA power forward, father to an NBA All-Star, brother to a Rock 'n' Roll Hall-of-Famer, and for a time, manager and muscle for The Beach Boys.

[Frayed Knot]

And father of still active NBA'er Kevin, who just finished his 17th season in 'The Association' (as the cool kids at the Four Letter network call it).




* actually I guess he hasn't yet finished his 17th season as he's now with Miami who are battling Cleveland in the opening round of the (interminable) NBA playoffs

[Edgy MD]

Hey, I mentioned that!

I demand to be read more closely and carefully!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Mike Peters, singer/bandleader of The Alarm, 66.

He'd had cancer going back to the 1990s

[G-Fafif]

Jill Sobule, one of my favorites, 66. Died in a house fire.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ruth Buzzi, 88.

If we ever see Laugh-In and Sesame Street intersecting on the Immaculate Grid, Ruth Buzzi would be a good choice for that square.

[Frayed Knot]

That was her given name.
I would have bet against that being the case.

[Chad ochoseis]

David Souter, the GHWB Supreme Court appointee who became the Court's resident liberal intellectual, 85.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/supreme ... -dies.html